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The Conversation Canadaby Goran Calic, Associate Profesor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Leadership Chair, McMaster University20 Aug 2026
Much of western Europe has endured long stretches of hot weather and heatwaves this summer. France recently experienced the hottest day in its recorded history and placed 54 of its 96 departments...
The Conversation Canadaby The Conversation Canada, The Conversation20 Aug 2026
Nicolette Little’s From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada looks at five projects — the REDress Project, the Disposable Red Woman, the digital...
The Conversation Canadaby Rawan Alfares, Master of Science student, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University20 Aug 2026
Cannabis has a reputation for making people hungry. Popular culture has long joked about the “munchies,” and many people assume that students who use cannabis naturally have poorer diets than those...
The Conversation Canadaby Pedram Nojedehi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Building Performance Research Centre, Carleton University19 Aug 2026
When people shop for a home, they tend to focus on the information listings put front and centre: price, floor area, number of bedrooms and location.
The Conversation Canadaby Julie Dragon, Associate Professor, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont19 Aug 2026
For more than a decade, anglers on Lake Memphremagog — which straddles the Québec-Vermont border — have been catching brown bullhead catfish marked with distinctive black lesions.
The Conversation Canadaby Richard Nimijean, Associate Professor (Teaching Stream) in the School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University19 Aug 2026
In March 2025, a month before Canada’s federal election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Mark Carney of plagiarizing his policy ideas.
The Conversation Canadaby Mitu Sengupta, Professor, Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University19 Aug 2026
For more than two centuries, authorities in India have tried to remove free-ranging dogs from public life.
The Conversation Canadaby Renata Roma, Research Associate - Pawsitive Connections Lab, University of Saskatchewan19 Aug 2026
If you use social media, you’ve probably noticed a plethora of animal photos — on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest and other platforms.
The Conversation Canadaby Sibo Chen, Associate Professor, School of Professional Communication, Toronto Metropolitan University18 Aug 2026
As students return to Canadian colleges and universities soon, many will enter classrooms where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is already part of everyday academic life.
The Conversation Canadaby Emily Luo, PhD Student in Education, Queen's University, Ontario18 Aug 2026
The Canadian government recently introduced AI for All, a national artificial intelligence strategy that has two focuses: building trust and creating opportunity.
The Conversation Canadaby Michael Arntfield, Full Professor of Criminology & English Literature, Western University18 Aug 2026
A couple of weeks ago, Netflix released The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, a documentary revisiting the 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students — Ethan Chapin (20 years old), Kaylee...
The Conversation Canadaby Sonya Pastran, PhD Candidate, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia18 Aug 2026
Scrambling through dense salal in the dark, weaving between the majestic western red cedars of northern Haida Gwaii, I could barely imagine where we were just days before — crossing Dixon Entrance...
The Conversation Canadaby Cornel Grey, Assistant Professor in Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Western University18 Aug 2026
Jason Arday’s death at 41 came only days after his resignation from the University of Cambridge. He had been facing intense scrutiny of his academic record and allegations of plagiarism.
The Conversation Canadaby Eugene Lang, Assistant Professor, Public Administration, Queen's University, Ontario17 Aug 2026
“The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is rebalancing its global operational commitments to better align resources with evolving defence priorities in an increasingly complex security environment.
The Conversation Canadaby Alka Kumar, Senior Research Fellow, Global Migration Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University17 Aug 2026
In response to a derogatory remark made in May 2026 by India’s chief justice, who called unemployed youth in India “parasites” and “cockroaches,” the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) was born.
The Conversation Canadaby Khaoula El Khalil, PhD candidate, Political Science, McGill University17 Aug 2026
According to a European Parliament resolution adopted in June 2021, Moroccan police temporarily eased controls at the border of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave of about 83,000 people on the North...
The Conversation Canadaby Ana Maria Navas Iannini, Assistant Professor, Science Education, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University17 Aug 2026
Moving beyond traditional roles as communicators of established knowledge, science museums are engaging more and more with difficult societal issues.
The Conversation Canadaby Codie C. Lavoie, Pediatric Neurologist and Sleep Specialist, University of Southern California16 Aug 2026
Would you trust your child to stay home alone? For many caregivers, the answer depends on age. But when it comes to safety and independence, neuroscience suggests a different question may be more...
The Conversation Canadaby Sara Nabil, Associate Professor of Human-Centered Computing, Queen's University, Ontario16 Aug 2026
Weaving is an ancient craft that is still practised as a hobby by many people around the world. In recent years, it has found new life as more people have returned to hands-on making as a way to...
The Conversation Canadaby David Silver, Chair in Business and Professional Ethics, University of British Columbia16 Aug 2026
In February, the United States Department of Defense threatened to designate the AI firm Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” after a dispute over the military’s use of the company’s Claude models.
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