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Canadian poet Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, performs her work ‘Antigonick’ at the Moderna Museet art gallery in Stockholm in August 2025. (Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via AP)

Anne Carson’s Nobel Prize: Where the ancient world meets postmodern literature

Carson’s Nobel Prize in Literature celebrates a writer whose work returns to antiquity as an unfinished reservoir of images, voices and fragments capable of unsettling contemporary experience.
A well-designed AI system could help newcomers find English or French classes, employment workshops, food banks, legal clinics, housing information or community events. (Unsplash/John Lockwood)

Canada’s settlement services are going digital. AI should support workers, not replace them

AI can improve access to settlement services in Canada, but human expertise must remain central to complex, legal and sensitive newcomer needs.
If a cyberattack shut down the electricity grid, we would need to eat animal feed and biofuel crops, ban alcohol production, cut food waste and fish from sail boats. (Unsplash)

Eight ways to feed ourselves if rogue AI destroys modern agriculture

if AI shut down the electricity grid, it would swiftly shut down agriculture. Without fuel, refrigeration, irrigation and fertilizers, we would all have to get creative in feeding ourselves.
Pedestrians walk on campus at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Oct. 1, 2026. The allegations surrounding the so-called Cornell 7 have renewed questions about consent, sexual violence and how young people are educated about sexual health. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

We need stronger sexual health education — the ‘Cornell 7’ case shows why

Allegations of sexual assault at Cornell University, and the public response to them, reveal persistent misunderstandings about consent, bystander responsibility and sexual violence.
Credential recognition answers a specific question: Does this person’s training meet the standards required to register here? Integration asks something harder: What happens to their career afterward? (Unsplash+/Getty Images)

Canada recruits internationally educated health professionals. Credential recognition is only part of the challenge

Canada is recruiting internationally educated health professionals, but recognizing their credentials is only one step toward professional integration.
Western sandpipers migate along the Pacific coast of the Americas, travelling thousands of kilometres every year between their breeding and non-beeding grounds. (Jason Puddifoot)

Rising seas threaten the world’s migratory shorebirds

Shorebirds undertake some of the world’s most impressive migrations — but as sea levels rise, the habitats that they depend on are expected to shrink.
How can governments recognize the role of remittances in responding to climate risk without shifting responsibility for adaptation onto migrants? (Mohamed Nohassi/Unsplash)

Remittances can help African countries adapt to climate change

Governments and international organizations should develop policy that incorporates remittances into how we respond to climate change.
In January 2020, the exceptionally high water level of Lake Michigan caused flooding and erosion along its shores, particularly in Chicago. (NWS/Matt Zuro)

How AI could help predict and explain water levels in the Great Lakes

Water levels in the Great Lakes swing from one extreme to the other. An analysis using artificial intelligence reveals how (and why) weather causes them to fluctuate.
Soldiers of the 41 Canadian Brigade Group carry ammunition for C9 squad automatic weapons during training at CFB Suffield, Alta., in October 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

How Canada could defend itself against an American invasion

Beyond Donald Trump’s anti-Canada rhetoric, there are many material and geo-strategic reasons why Canada must take his threats to Canadian sovereignty very seriously.
Smoke from a steel plant in Hamilton, Ont. rises against a setting sun, as smoke from wildfires blankets the sky in June 2023. Industrial facilities face different technical and financial challenges in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

What a Chinese pollution crackdown can teach Canada about carbon pricing

Canada has lowered its planned industrial carbon price. Research from China shows why the effects of environmental rules depend on firms’ ability to adapt.
Prime Minister Mark Carney directs U.S. President Donald Trump off stage after officially welcoming him to the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alta., in June 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Albertans disapprove of Donald Trump — and his brand is weakening separatism, too

Some separatist organizers in Alberta have distanced themselves from Donald Trump as the independence referendum approaches. Our research explains why.
In a 2023 national survey, one in four Canadian women said they had chosen between buying menstrual products and paying for essentials such as food or rent in the past year. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) 

Free period products in schools help girls and young women, but only when they’re available

More than half of students had missed at least part of a school day because of their period. When asked why, about one-third said they had been without pads or tampons when they needed them.
Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Ingrid Carlberg announces Canadian writer Anne Carson as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 8, 2026. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize: How Canadian writers land on the international stage

As readers turn their eyes to nominees for the Nobel Prize in literature and Canada’s Giller Prize, how does Canadian literary recognition translate into international standing?
Ethan Fung, Matthew Anketell and Robert Britton, three authors of a study published in the journal Science about speeding up the process of producing drug target molecules. (Simon Fraser University)

Here’s how scientists aim to speed up drug development for treating new viruses

Generating up to 100 times more antiviral drug candidates than was previously practical — in weeks rather than months or years — could improve the odds of finding a drug quickly when necessary.