In examining and addressing opportunity gaps for racialized students in schools, school boards must learn to account for present-day and historical inequities.
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Regulation of the internet is inevitable and governments, rather than businesses, should seek to regulate it.
TransCanada Corporation has misunderstood or misrepresented the risks associated with Indigenous jurisdiction.
Ahed et Malala ont le même âge et se battent pour les mêmes droits et libertés. Toutes deux ont vécu la violence armée. Pourtant le traitement médiatique de leur histoire a été radicalement éloigné.
Where we build our communities and how we build them has an outsize role in our vulnerability to wildfire.
A Green New Deal would confront both climate change and social inequality. Its prospects in the United States are uncertain, but Canada should endeavour to develop one of its own anyway.
Why do we know the story of Malala, the Pakistani student who survived a brutal attack on her school by the Taliban but not the story of Ahed, a Palestinian girl who stood up to Israeli forces?
A single solution can't magically erase gender-based violence in schools, but if we start listening to students, we may hear new stories of masculinity and femininity echoing through school hallways.
In Canada, people living with HIV can be charged with not disclosing their HIV status to their sexual partners. There is evidence that Black men suffer the most under this criminalization.
Premier Doug Ford’s proposal to downgrade Ontario’s environmental watchdog is bad news for the environment, public health and safety, and evidence-based decision-making.
Working class parents may be too busy to attend high school events, but they take an active role in their children's success.
A wealth tax would put a price on past emissions and could be used to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, including vulnerability to climate change.
According to new research, individuals who take small regular doses of psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms score higher on mental health, well-being and creativity.
Rather than the duty to consult, governments should proactively engage with Indigenous treaties or other locally relevant treaties, agreements, laws and relationships at all stages of law-making.
Now that cannabis is almost legal in Canada, many are celebrating. Before we forget, we should remember those that have been arrested for previous crimes and push for amnesty.
Cheap fossil fuels contort the global economy in ways that have systematically harmed some and benefited others. Justice demands that those of us who have benefited take responsibility.
Canada's proposed new environmental assessment law is facing heated, if not necessarily well-informed, opposition. The real question is whether it goes far enough.
The bitterly contested hearings to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the newest justice to the U.S. Supreme Court were more of a show trial than a legal procedure.
A visual art exhibit challenges inaccurate stereotypes of young Muslim women and instead presents complex and strong portraits.
City council is a level of government deserving of recognition and autonomy. That's why Toronto must continue to fight Ontario's attempt to exert its will over the city.
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
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Executive Director, Shared Path Consultation Initiative; Doctoral student, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Lecturer in Business and Society, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Education, York University, Canada
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Professor of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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PhD Candidate, Sociology, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, Criminology, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
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Assistant Lecturer Global Health, Ethics and Human Rights School of Health, York University, Canada
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PhD student in Clinical Psychology, York University, Canada
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, York University, Canada
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PhD Candidate, Sociology, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, York University, Canada
