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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,...

yesterday 7

George S. Rigakos

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...

yesterday 9

Regan Lipes

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...

yesterday 5

Simon Blanchette

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...

yesterday 5

Juliano Palacios Abrantes

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

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...

previous day 10

Daryl Janzen

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...

previous day 9

David Tindall

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...

previous day 8

Laszlo Sarkany

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...

tuesday 10

Britta Baechler

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...

tuesday 10

Martin Danahay

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...

tuesday 3

Jamie Anderson

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...

tuesday 5

Abbas Yazdinejad

Will AI automation really kill jobs? A new survey finds Canadian workers are split on the answer

Since 2023, there has been a steady increase in media stories about the potential for automation by artificial intelligence (AI) to displace...

17.11.2025 4

Scott Schieman

Reduced air pollution is making clouds reflect less sunlight

Winter is setting in across the Northern Hemisphere, and with it, cold and cloudy winter days. Clouds play a vital role in the environment,...

17.11.2025 20

Knut Von Salzen

Child-care affordability is coming at the expense of equity — and it’s time governments acted

Five years into Canada’s $10-a-day child care plan, affordability has improved dramatically for families fortunate enough to have a space. However,...

17.11.2025 3

Kerry Mccuaig

Federal budget 2025: Is Canada Strong actually weak on AI?

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government has tabled its first official budget, entitled Canada Strong. It frames itself as a road map of...

17.11.2025 1

Nicolas Chartier-Edwards

When we gamble with the integrity of sport, we risk losing the values it offers

In the sports documentary miniseries The Last Dance , Michael Jordan describes how, as a young rookie, he was confronted with an invitation to take...

16.11.2025 4

Jennifer Walinga

‘Radioactive patriarchy’ documentary: Women examine the impact of Soviet nuclear testing

Following recent comments on nuclear testing by United States President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, it’s more important than...

16.11.2025 1

Rebecca H. Hogue

Should Canadian politicians be allowed to block their constituents on social media?

Canadian politicians have increasingly taken to social media to campaign as well as communicate with constituents, sharing updates on policies,...

16.11.2025 3

Victoria Mcarthur

Why aging shouldn’t be classified as a disease

In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases — a global, standard-setting...