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Social media can be understood as a role-playing game like Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeon & Dragon’s expansion over the last 50 years was driven by digital social networks in the same way that the evolution of digital social...

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Stephen M Yeager

Motherhood changes how women spend, save and think about money

Motherhood changes how women spend, save and think about money

Mothers aren’t just losing the income, promotions and career advancements that we’ve known about for quite some time. They’re also quietly spending...

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Oriane Couchoux

Worker honey bees can sense infections in their queen, leading to revolt

Worker honey bees can sense infections in their queen, leading to revolt

When the results of the Canada’s national honey bee colony loss survey were published in July 2025, they came as no surprise. According to the...

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Alison Mcafee

Reality check: The Supreme Court actually did the right thing in its child pornography ruling

Reality check: The Supreme Court actually did the right thing in its child pornography ruling

The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in the Attorney General of Québec v. Senneville struck down one-year mandatory minimum sentences for...

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Meg D. Lonergan

Weak infrastructure leaves Jamaican schools devastated in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

Weak infrastructure leaves Jamaican schools devastated in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

The devastation in Jamaica caused by Hurricane Melissa exposed a harsh reality that’s been hidden in plain sight for decades — most schools were...

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Giselle Thompson

Baseball in Canada is thriving — but not on campus

Baseball in Canada is thriving — but not on campus

Baseball in Canada is thriving, from the grassroots to the professional level. Recent Toronto Blue Jays viewership numbers have been extraordinary,...

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George S. Rigakos

What Yiddish literature reveals about Canada’s diverse canon and multilingual identity

What Yiddish literature reveals about Canada’s diverse canon and multilingual identity

As an assistant professor of comparative literature, when I ask undergraduate students how they define “Canadian literature,” I get half-hearted...

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Regan Lipes

We can’t ban AI, but we can build the guardrails to prevent it from going off the tracks

We can’t ban AI, but we can build the guardrails to prevent it from going off the tracks

Artificial intelligence is fascinating, transformative and increasingly woven into how we learn, work and make decisions. But for every example of...

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Simon Blanchette

The deep sea and the Arctic must be included in efforts to tackle climate change

The deep sea and the Arctic must be included in efforts to tackle climate change

This year’s COP30 comes after the international Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) finally...

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Juliano Palacios Abrantes

The rise of the ‘performative male:’ How young men are experimenting with masculinity online

The rise of the ‘performative male:’ How young men are experimenting with masculinity online

Across TikTok and university campuses, young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha lattes, Labubus, film...

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Jillian Sunderland

Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here’s why

Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here’s why

The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we’ve tried to understand the world we live in. Intuitively, we know what time is, but try...

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Daryl Janzen

Artificial intelligence is front and centre at COP30

Artificial intelligence is front and centre at COP30

We live in a time often characterized as a polycrisis. One of those crises is human-caused climate change, an issue currently being discussed by...

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David Tindall

How Canada and the European Union could ensure the survival of the International Criminal Court

How Canada and the European Union could ensure the survival of the International Criminal Court

Canada has yet to officially throw its support behind the International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution it helped create, against targeted...

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Laszlo Sarkany

New study finds that ingesting even small amounts of plastic can be fatal for marine animals

New study finds that ingesting even small amounts of plastic can be fatal for marine animals

Plastics are everywhere, and the ocean is no exception: 11 million metric tons of plastics enter the ocean every year, where they spread far and...

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Britta Baechler

Trump’s aggression in the Caribbean could violate a Victorian-era court ruling on cannibalism at sea

Trump’s aggression in the Caribbean could violate a Victorian-era court ruling on cannibalism at sea

The Donald Trump administration in the United States has authorized killing people in boats on the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific, claiming...

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Martin Danahay

Alberta’s education legislation erodes gender-based violence prevention in K-12 schools

Alberta’s education legislation erodes gender-based violence prevention in K-12 schools

The Supreme Court of Canada recently released its ruling that mandatory minimum sentences for access or possession of child sexual abuse and...

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Jamie Anderson

Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’s digital health defences

Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’s digital health defences

Across Canada, doctors and nurses are quietly using public artificial-intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini to write...

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Abbas Yazdinejad