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November 24, 2020

For university students, COVID-19 stress creates perfect conditions for mental health crises

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of most, if not all, individuals living in Canada. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the mental health of younger populations (ages 18-25) has been particularly affected.... More

November 19, 2020

How African countries can create a political economy of care post COVID-19

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the necessity to rethink the existing economic model informed by capitalist logics of exploitation and profit-making. In many instances, the desire for profit trumps consideration for welfare... More

November 17, 2020

World Children’s Day: Young people deserve to be heard during COVID-19

This Nov. 20 marks 66 years since the United Nations established World Children’s Day. On the same day in 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the international human rights treaty known as the United... More

November 2, 2020

Immigrant women are falling behind during the COVID-19 pandemic

Immigrant women are feeling the brunt of the negative economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — and it may not get better. The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited public debate on the adverse socio-economic... More

October 29, 2020

Sirens, hags and rebels: Halloween witches draw on the history of women’s power

Notwithstanding the pandemic, witches in pointy black hats appear in the windows of stores and homes across my city this Halloween. Witch costumes are popular with young girls who, in ordinary times, parade the streets... More

October 27, 2020

How to prevent COVID-19 ‘superspreader’ events indoors this winter

The second wave of COVID-19 has arrived. Cases are spiking in most European countries, Canada is seeing the number of daily cases exceed the first peak in April/May and the United States is facing a... More

October 26, 2020

Collateral damage: The unmet health-care needs of non-COVID-19 patients

As the second wave of COVID-19 has now officially hit Central Canada (Québec and Ontario), we can expect health-care system resources to again be disproportionally demanded by COVID-19 patients. Addressing the direct health implications of... More

October 25, 2020

Folk devils and fear: QAnon feeds into a culture of moral panic

Using conspiracy theories that include child sex traffickers and restaurants serving human flesh, QAnon has unleashed a modern-day moral panic. It is now more than 30 years since sociologists proposed moral panic as a way... More

October 20, 2020

Graphic novels are overlooked by book prizes, but that’s starting to change

In the midst of a global pandemic, almost nothing is proceeding as normal. And yet, on a dim October morning, the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist announcement went brightly, briefly and virtually streaming into homes and... More

October 15, 2020

‘Caliphate’ podcast and its fallout reveal the extent of Islamophobia

On Sept. 25, the RCMP arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, a Muslim man, for allegedly fabricating his affiliation with the Islamic State group (ISIS). Chaudhry — popularly referred to by his supposed nom de guerre, Abu Huzayfah... More

October 8, 2020

Canada’s COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force needs better transparency about potential conflicts of interest

Hopefully there will soon be a vaccine for COVID-19. In fact, there may be more than one. Once there is, Canada will probably spend hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, on the vaccine... More

September 16, 2020

‘I choose to be a cyborg’: Why I implanted computer chips in my hands

I have computer chips in my hands. The tiny (two millimetre by 12 millimetre) glass ampules are nestled just under the skin on the back of each of my hands and were implanted by a... More