The police killing of George Floyd galvanized populations already frustrated by the effects of COVID-19 to take to the streets.
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One in four children will experience sleep problems before their 10th birthday. Here are the top factors, plus steps parents can take to give their kids (and themselves) a good night’s sleep.
While staying at home during the pandemic, foreign language learners can improve their vocabulary and comprehension by watching films and television shows in the language they are studying.
Bike shops have seen record sales during the pandemic as people try to avoid crowded transportation. But governments must do more to keep new cyclists in the saddle.
Mood tracking apps are sophisticated tools that track, measure and improve our emotions. But doing so may make our emotional data vulnerable to interested third parties.
COVID-19 is affecting many people’s state of mind, but some of the most vulnerable members of our communities are children and youth with pre-existing mental health challenges.
Even if you exercise, sitting too much is linked to health risks from anxiety to diabetes. But this ‘invisible’ behaviour may pervade our lives even more under COVID-19 stay-at-home guidelines.
What does Dr. Anthony Fauci have in common with a fictional doctor in Henrik Ibsen’s classic 1882 play, ‘An Enemy of the People’? More than you’d think.
Migrant workers are not inherently more vulnerable to COVID-19, nor more likely to be carrying it than Canadians. Yet our treatment of them this year stigmatizes them and puts them at risk.
Les communautés noires et immigrantes du Canada sont plus vulnérables à la Covid-19.
If you want to boost your energy and mood and feel more alert, get moving instead of getting coffee.
La gente se aferra a la música que le resulta familiar para superar periodos difíciles como el que estamos viviendo. Los refugiados de la guerra civil de El Salvador usaban la música para iluminar los recuerdos de su pasado.
The hyper-competitiveness of Michael Jordan may work on the basketball court, but the win-at-all-cost American culture that Jordan represents is not what’s needed to end the coronavirus pandemic.
Black and immigrant communities in Canada are more vulnerable to COVID-19.
Recipe sharing is all the rage in the pandemic as in other times of turmoil. English cookbooks of the 16th and 17th centuries promised recipes for comfort with a dash of glamour.
In 2015, Justin Trudeau announced that ‘Canada is back’ and promised to support a rules-based international order. Yet Canada has maintained the previous Conservative government’s pro-Israel stance.
Moral injury happens when someone is faced with a choice that violates deep moral beliefs. Health-care workers treating COVID-19 might be forced to choose between ‘wrong’ and ‘wronger.’
People rely on familiar music to get through difficult times. Refugees from El Salvador’s civil war used music to light up memories of their past.
À mesure que la distanciation sociale s'installe, nous intégrons de plus en plus les communications en ligne dans notre vie sociale. Mais elles ne compensent pas le langage corporel ou le toucher.
The danger of treating COVID-19 as an astronomically rare and improbable event is that we will treat it as such and fail to prepare for the next pandemic. And there will be another pandemic.
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PhD Candidate, English, and Research Assistant, Western University
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Research Associate in English and Writing Studies, Western University
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University
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Research Associate, School of Nursing, Western University
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Jane E. Sanders is a Friend of The Conversation.
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, King's University College, Western University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University
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Associate Professor of Labour and Employment Relations, DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, Western University
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John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
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Associate Professor, Sociology cross-listed in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University
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Associate Professor Biology, Western University
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Professor of Immunology, Western University
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Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, Western University
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PhD Candidate in Psychology, Western University
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Professor of Psychology, Western University
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Chair Professor, Psychology, Western University
