The need for more child-care and elder-care spots is growing, but the COVID-19 pandemic proves that for-profit facilities are not the answer.
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Eye contact is essential for building and developing trust. But after more than a year of working and socializing online, our ability to make and maintain eye contact has been diminished.
Une nouvelle étude révèle que les influenceuses de plus de 50 ans s’engagent dans un activisme de style pour combattre les industries de la mode et de la beauté âgistes et sexistes.
Lorsque les enseignants utilisent leurs souvenirs pour examiner comment les écoles affectent les chances des enfants sur la base de leur identité sociale, ils imaginent une éducation plus équitable.
Taxi drivers and Uber drivers perform the same work, but Uber’s categorization as a tech company has contributed to the historical stigma against taxi drivers.
As teens forge their post-pandemic identities, let’s afford them the ‘dignity of risk,’ in their whole lives including their sexualities.
The pandemic’s third wave has brought Ontario to the brink of catastrophe. The best options for controlling the situation are well understood, so why won’t the provincial government implement them?
When teachers use memories to examine how schools unequally affect children’s life choices and chances on the basis of social identity, they’re able to imagine more equitable education.
As the third wave ravages Ontario, there is public confusion and mistrust. Premier Ford’s flip-flops on restrictions indicate not just poor risk communications, but the lack of an informed plan.
The snail’s pace of action in this year’s federal budget on climate is out of step with the urgency of the climate and income inequality crises.
The Ingenuity is a drone-like helicopter that completed its first flight on Mars. This achievement reflects a new horizon for space exploration, as new places are discovered and studied.
Canada has an opportunity to become a world leader in early childhood education. With monumental federal support, this is the time to build a sustainable and relevant early education system.
COVID-19 has shown us that we are not “all in this together” despite what politicians may want us to think.
A new study finds that women influencers over the age of 50 engage in style activism to combat ageist and sexist fashion and beauty industries.
Variants of the original SARS-CoV-2 are now in wide circulation. That means the third wave of COVID-19 has come with new questions about the variants, their effects and what might come next.
The system turns employers into immigration enforcement officers and generates a population of people without status who live and work in Canada without a clear path to security of presence or livelihood.
Fifteen Asian academics discuss the roots of anti-Asian racism and limits of multiculturalism in Canada while charting a path forward.
Canadian Jewish scholars have released a statement to express alarm at attempts to intervene in campus activities relating to Israel and Palestine.
A young reader asks: What is the sky?
Canada’s new governor general will have to fuse the British, French, American and Indigenous elements of Canada that together are the core of the country.
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Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, School of Human Resource Management, York University, Canada
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Oxford; York University, Canada
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Associate Dean, Indigenous Health, York University, Canada; Queen's University, Ontario
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JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
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Fellow / Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University; York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, York University, Canada
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PhD Student, Political Science, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of African Canadian History, York University, Canada
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Senior Librarian, Digital Scholarship Infrastructure Department, York University, Canada
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Associate professor, York University, Canada
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Professor, Faculty of Education, York University, Canada
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Professor, York University, Canada
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Professor, Faculty of Education, York University, Canada