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Vegan activists are doing more than promoting healthy diets, they are increasingly vocal about the ethical treatment of animals and pushing for social change.
Thousands of people turned out for the march for climate on Sept. 27 but new questions have arisen about the form these protests will take in the future.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has inspired the cross-country climate marches, but accountability lies with governments and corporations.
Street art promotes public dialogue on social justice issues and can lead to opportunities for learning outside of formal schooling.
The proposed secular law (Bill 21) in the province of Québec appears to be directed primarily against Montreal and Québec City, and reflects a fear of strangers in Québec’s more homogeneous regions.
Drivers for Uber, one of the most successful companies in the gig economy are set to strike by turning their apps off for one day this week as their company prepares for its IPO.
The supervised, structured and balanced use of Minecraft could allow students to fully benefit from the potential of this game to build skills and increase motivation.
Inattention is one of the most important early behavioural risk factors for a range of adverse life outcomes, including lower earnings.
Do you turn to a wine expert to help you chose your bottle of wine? Wine experts may have different evaluations depending on the school of thought in which they were trained.
Smartphones are here to stay, so why don’t art teachers explore using them mindfully for visual and aural self-expression and to create intentional classroom communities?
Ontario’s premier is drawing faulty parallels between Franco-Ontarians and Anglo-Quebecers when it comes to the services available to them in each province.
It’s easy to over-estimate crowding and traffic in highly visible downtown cores and underestimate the vast growth happening in the suburban edges of our metropolitan regions.
Heatwave deaths this summer make it clear: climate change is a severe public health threat, and those who live alone are at greatest risk.
Low-income women suffer evictions and violence in Canada’s most “livable” cities.
The notion of a ‘crisis of masculinity" clouds the understanding of complex social phenomena and falsely asserts a vision of humanity as being radically divided between men and women.
Why is a memorial to 29 Francophone men who were executed by the British government as well as to 58 men who were exiled to Australia in 1838 hidden away in a Montreal cemetery?
What kind of a country is Canada? One which truly welcomes and respects immigrants and their lives and safety? Or one which just says it does but brutally detains and deports them?
John Lennon and Yoko Ono visited Canada on a peace mission: They met with leaders and asked difficult questions, relevant today. How do we effectively protest against social injustices and war?
The decision to hold the 2016 World Social Forum in Canada made it inaccessible to many activists from the geopolitical south. But it also highlighted the false simplicity of the north-south dichotomy in social justice activism.
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Associate professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professeur titulaire, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Professor of English and former Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Political Science, Athabasca University
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Associate Professor, Psychosocial Difficulties, University of Oslo
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Associate professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Tourism Management, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Political Science, Concordia University of Edmonton
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Professor of Humanities, and Professor of Law; Guggenheim Fellow, Vanderbilt University
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Co-Founder of The Data Tank and Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab), New York University
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PhD Candidate, Art History, Concordia University
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PhD Student, New York University
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Associate Professor Munk School of Global Affairs and Co-director Environmental Governance Lab, University of Toronto
