Queen's University, Ontario

Established in 1841 and one of Canada’s oldest degree-granting institutions, Queen’s today is a mid-sized university that provides a transformative student learning experience within a research-intensive environment A member of the prestigious U15 group of research-intensive Canadian universities, Queen’s conducts leading-edge research in areas of critical concern. Queen’s is also a member of the Matariki Network, an international group of research-intensive universities with a strong shared commitment to the undergraduate and graduate student learning experience.

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Loving one’s job can be deeply fulfilling when that attachment is freely experienced and supported by fair, well-designed work environments. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

What it really means to love your job — and when that love can become a liability

New research explores the psychology behind work-related love and its implications for modern organizations.
Building construction in uptown Iqaluit. The new Build Canada Homes initiative that fails to address the unique housing needs of the North. (WikiMedia)

Northern housing must be built as an integrated ecosystem — by the North, for the North

As Canada rushes to build housing similar to the post-Second World War era, it must not forget how many chronic economic, health and housing challenges that onetime boom created for the North.
Canadian troops walk on the tarmac after disembarking from a military transport plane at Kabul international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in July 2003. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Hey Trump: Here’s how Canada punched above its military weight in Afghanistan — from someone with a front‑row seat

When the United States needed Canada in Afghanistan, Canada answered the call, putting the lie to Donald Trump’s latest NATO falsehoods.
Food insecurity worsened for the third year in a row in 2024, setting another national record, with more than 25 per cent of the population living in households with inadequate access to food due to financial constraints. (Unsplash)

Why we need to talk about the root causes of food insecurity

Dominant nutrition wellness narratives wrongly focus on individual behaviour and personal responsibility, which obscures the structural causes of hunger and delays policy changes.
Le secteur de l’IA est en plein essor, mais une grande partie des investissements relève de la spéculation. Saradasish Pradhan/Unsplash

La bulle de l’IA n’a rien de nouveau : Karl Marx en a expliqué les mécanismes, il y a près de 150 ans

L’alerte lancée par le patron d’OpenAI, Sam Altman, sur une bulle de l’IA met en lumière un problème économique plus profond : le capitalisme produit plus de capital qu’il ne peut en investir de manière rentable.
Indigenous land protectors and allies in September 2025 at the Here We Stand encampment in Treaty 9 territory, in northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire. (Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence/Eleven North Visuals)

Ontario’s Bill 5 erodes good governance in the province

Ontario’s Bill 5 eliminates key environmental protections and grants the provincial government sweeping powers to fast-track development with little to no oversight.
Des personnes réfugiées, essentiellement des femmes, attendent de recevoir une aide financière lors d’une distribution d’argent liquide organisée par le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) dans un ancien enclos à bétail du secteur 5 du camp de personnes déplacées de Bentiu, dans l’État d’Unity, au Soudan du Sud, le 4 novembre 2025. Rian Cope/AFP

Terreur, viols, meurtres… Le quotidien épouvantable des femmes qui migrent du Soudan vers le Soudan du Sud

La guerre civile au Soudan provoque des migrations massives vers le Soudan du Sud. Les migrants et surtout les migrantes subissent régulièrement attaques et viols de masse.
A Sudanese woman rests while fleeing the ongoing conflict between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in North Darfur, in April 2025. EPA/MARWAN MOHAMED

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration

Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.
Canada’s latest General Auditor’s report found unsatisfactory progress on five of 11 recommendations regarding access to health services for remote communities. (Unsplash)

Reconciliation without accountability is just talk — especially when it comes to Indigenous health

Despite a decade of commitments, audits and Calls to Action, the federal government has failed to deliver meaningful and measurable improvements in First Nations health services.
Deux images complexes, riches en significations : Nature morte aux fleurs sur une table de marbre, peinture à l’huile réalisée en 1716 par la Néerlandaise Rachel Ruysch, à côté du modèle visuel d’une enzyme (PDB 4KO1) liée à son substrat. Rijksmuseum/Amanda Bongers

Pour les artistes comme pour les scientifiques, l’observation prolongée permet de faire émerger l’esprit critique

Le processus consistant à observer et à se poser des questions sur ce que l’on regarde est nécessaire à tous les niveaux scientifiques, et les étudiants en sciences peuvent l’apprendre grâce à l’analyse visuelle inspirée de l’histoire de l’art.
A healthcare worker wears an N95 respirator mask and other personal protective equipment. (Dick Zoutman)

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier

New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure
Going to work sick shouldn’t be a choice Canadians have to make. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

Canada still lacks universal paid sick leave — and that’s a public health problem as we approach flu season

A universal sick leave system would help Canada better manage seasonal illnesses and future outbreaks, protect economic stability and prepare for emerging crises.
As AI becomes more integrated, it will continue to influence organizational tone, pace, communication style and decision-making norms. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

AI tools promise efficiency at work, but they can erode trust, creativity and agency

Without deliberate strategies, over-reliance on AI could erode self-trust, creativity and ethical judgment and leave organizations more fragile, not more resilient.
En fermant les rues à proximité des écoles pour qu’on puisse y déposer et y reprendre les enfants, une initiative innovante appelée « rue-école » permet aux enfants de se réapproprier la ville. (Unsplash)

Les voitures restreignent le droit des enfants de profiter de la ville. Voici des projets qui font la différence

Depuis que la priorité a été donnée aux voitures dans nos villes, nous avons normalisé le fait de ne pas voir ni entendre les enfants dans nos rues.
Ontario Provincial Police cruisers sit at a house near, Cormac, Ont., one of three crime scenes, in September 2015. A 57-year-old was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the separate slayings of three women. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand

Sex‑motivated violence should be treated as a hate crime

For hate crime legislation to be more than symbolic, crimes motivated by hatred must be reported, recorded, prosecuted and sentenced as hate crimes

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