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Why is a European border located on African soil? And why has the dispute about Ceuta and Spanish colonization remained unresolved for so long?
Across the world, science museums are beginning to join conversations and develop work about mental health.
Weaving is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, but its patterns helped inspire early computing. Today, textile makers are using conductive yarns and...
Caregivers often seek a specific age that their child can be left home alone. However, the neuroscience of brain development suggests that readiness...
If your organization is in crisis, your values are your lifeline. Identifying them collaboratively helps build consensus and guide action.
What happens to democracy when the independent people capable of resisting abuses of power are replaced by systems designed to make those abuses...
The Mecca agreeement is best understood as a form of strategic insurance for three governments seeking greater protection and political influence...
The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international...
The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international...
An institution that belongs to everyone and to no one is a fragile thing. It survives on a shared conviction that some goods are not for sale and...
For older employees already experiencing burnout, poorly designed or poorly timed training can become an additional job demand rather than a solution.
Montréal-area performances have seen artists explore our human connections to light and ecological forces, and reflect on grief related to climate...
Frequent travellers of a Guyanese ferry that sunk in July allege routine overloading, unsecured cargo and engine failures.
Women’s changing libido has been treated as biological fact — the product of evolution or hormonal destiny. But differences in sexual experience...
Alberta’s move to shift disability recipients onto a lower-paying, employment-focused benefit assumes people can make up the difference through...
A study of more than 750,000 student records from four Toronto universities finds that living in residence is linked to better grades and higher...
The advantage of virtual reality training is scalability. The same experience can be delivered in many countries simultaneously, without need for...
The success of protest movements in India hinges on two main factors: the strategic importance of the movement’s voting base to the ruling BJP, and...
Like many other countries, Canada wants to restrict young people’s access to social media. Can Bill C-34 achieve its intended goals?
Fossil-fuel dependence, the costs of adapting to a changing climate and the transition to cleaner energy are all driving up costs.
Teachers should capitalize on opportunities for oral language development through play in French immersion instruction.
If Donald Trump decides to escalate the Iran war, Christian Zionists will be those cheering the loudest.
Canada’s approach to airline strikes pits the need for reliable air travel against the constitutionally protected right to strike. Other countries...
Restorative justice isn’t appropriate in every case of intimate partner violence. But it could bring justice to some survivors if it adheres to six...
People around the world are gathering in wilderness settings with the intention to initiate contact with UFOs using various techniques.
A sedentary lifestyle lurks in every neighbourhood. So what motivates people to walk?
Research has moved past the question of whether we can live longer. The new question is whether we’re willing to invest — seriously, equitably and...
When we lose insect species without even knowing they existed, we will never know where they lived, what they looked like, how they interacted with...
AI policy guiding university learning and teacher education must address how technology changes the social and emotional conditions of teaching and...
Secession, the formal withdrawal of a region from a country, involves trade-offs. Preliminary research shows those trade-offs would be significant for...
By providing a more expansive ‘Little House’ world, the show respects Wilder’s writing while redressing racist depictions.
Historically, women with inflammatory bowel disease were advised against pregnancy. Current evidence shows modern medication use in pregnancy leads to...
Wealthsimple is launching a CIRO-approved prediction markets app soon. The evidence suggests most traders lose money, and the products look a lot like...
Public support for trans and gender-diverse people is declining, and that decline is being driven by political and media discourse.
New research shows that Canadian attacks on Indigenous rights are part of a clear international trend of what’s known as recolonization.
Lower inflation does not mean prices will return to where they were before. Inflation measures the average change in prices over time, not which...
Although children sweat less than adults, they are able to regulate body heat in other ways.
In the age of AI we are once again hearing about Luddites, the 19th-century textile workers who sought to protect their livelihoods in early...
Math achievement gaps begin in kindergarten and persist through Grade 9, highlighting the importance of investing in children’s early development.
Although children sweat less than adults, they are able to regulate body heat in other ways.
Human infant helplessness is not a weakness to be outgrown. It is an evolved trait that may be central to our ability to care for others.
Heat waves pose a threat to older adults, but a recent study suggests that they retain an unexpected ability to adapt to high temperatures.
Countries that sign deals with the Trump administration are quickly finding out that the stability and certainty they hoped to purchase was an...
Canada can significantly improve women’s health, in both the short- and long-term, by focusing on five attainable and affordable immediate actions.
Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.
While transit programs are often focused on urban places, it’s just as important to rural communities to maintain transportation links.
Heat waves pose a threat to older adults, but a recent study suggests that they retain an unexpected ability to adapt to high temperatures.
As long as women and other equity-seeking groups are underrepresented, Canada’s clean energy workforce remains inequitable.
Heliconius butterflies eat high-protein pollen and seem to age well.
China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it...