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Canada is simply a consumer of ride-hailing services, and has not established any of its own Ubers or Lyfts, even as tiny countries like Estonia get in on the game. That needs to change.
The ongoing NAFTA renegotiations could put a Canadian national pharmacare program in jeopardy, and have a particular impact on Canadians who need expensive arthritis drugs. Here’s how.
No longer can young people invest in their education and work their way into secure employment. The health impacts of this job insecurity are profound.
Canada’s opposition Conservatives are borrowing from European populists in stoking fears about asylum-seekers and migrants. Here’s why that’s so dangerous.
Dimulai dari perang narkoba hingga tindakan keras terhadap aktivis hak asasi manusia dan lingkungan, hidup orang filipina semakin menakutkan.
It’s time Health Canada took back the regulation of drug advertising – to protect consumers.
An abundance of unhealthy food choices in neighbourhoods is called a food swamp. But since swamps are actually wetlands and good for public health, we should choose a new term.
An announcement that the United States and Mexico were close to a new trade deal came as a surprise to many. How did Canada become an afterthought during the NAFTA negotiations?
It’s been 10 years since the U.S. signed into law a scheme to print money, essentially, and save the financial sector amid the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. Did it work? And who’s truly benefitted?
Maxime Bernier has announced he’s forming a new conservative party to challenge Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives. Don’t count him out. Politics has shown us recently that the impossible can happen.
A Canada-Iran collaboration uses performance art, storytelling and new media to confront the troubles of global migration and borders.
Summer time and time to cool off in a pool or lake? The statistics reveal that race complicates the issue: in the U.S., Black people drown at five times the rate of white people.
From the war on drugs to a crackdown on human rights and environmental activists, life for Filipinos is increasingly nightmarish.
Machine learning is changing the world in ways that we are just beginning to appreciate. But could it change the way we do science and the reasons why we do science?
Fears about the resurgence of fascism might have seemed irrelevant during the past 70 years, when it was discredited. It doesn’t seem irrelevant today with liberal democracy on the defensive.
Governments lean on science advisers for guidance on increasingly complex issues of great concern, including oil and gas development, drug legalization, water quality and the environment.
Obesity and malnutrition now coexist across sub-Saharan Africa thanks to a transition to Western diets. “Gamifying” nutrition programs can help nudge youth towards healthier eating patterns.
The U.S. immigration detention system under Donald Trump is abusive, racist, sexist and haphazardly implemented, all designed to terrorize people attempting to exercise their right to seek asylum.
While the #MeToo movement has been revolutionary, some workplaces will be slow to change. Here are seven things we can all do to help stop toxic work environments.
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Fellow, Dalla Lana Journalism and Health Impact, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor, Educational Policy and Equity, University of Toronto
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Professor and LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) and Senior Policy Fellow at the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Affiliate Scientist, KITE Research Institute, Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto
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Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
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Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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PhD Candidate, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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Kerry McCuaig is a Friend of The Conversation.
Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Fellow, Dalla Lana Journalism and Health Impact, University of Toronto
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Professor, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto
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Senior Research Associate & Social Epidemiologist, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Institute for Management and Innovation, University of Toronto
