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Updated March 27, 2025
Quarter Life: Series written for young people (20s-30s):
Looking for data-driven stories and new research about dating/romantic relationships for people in their 20s and 30s.
Deadline: Ongoing
Arts:
Annexation threats have led to broader discussion of investment in Canadian arts and culture. Seeking scholarship related to key federal efforts, key challenges and significant policy developments from the 1949 Massey Commission forward.
Deadline: ASAP
Politics:
Looking for an academic to file quickly on the federal election outcome on April 28 – election night or early the next morning – and the issues that helped determine how Canadians voted. This story could largely be pre-written based on what polls are saying and retopped with the outcome.
Deadline: Mid-April
Education:
The Globe and Mail reports the United States government has asked Canadian recipients of U.S. funding whether their work deals with DEI, climate or gender. Seeking research quantifying how much American funding is tied to Canadian research or in what fields, and scholarly analysis around this.
Deadline: Ongoing
Updated March 18, 2025
Quarter Life: Series written for young people (20s-30s):
Looking for data-driven stories and new research about young people (20s-30s) and relationships.
Deadline: ASAP
Looking for articles on navigating dating and relationships for young people who identify as asexual.
Deadline: ASAP
Arts:
How might U.S. tariffs affect Canadian arts sectors? Seeking analysis.
Deadline: ASAP
How to read a self-help book: Looking for a psychologist to write a story about how readers can effectively choose self-help books and critically analyze the ones they end up reading.
Deadline: ASAP
Podcast:
Looking for a scholar to discuss ways to manage politically induced stress and/or to discuss possible ways forward given the current global political turmoil. Hoping to discuss this issue from one or more of these vantage points: historical, organizational theory, sociology, American Studies, Canadian Studies.
Deadline: ASAP
Business/Economy:
Cost-of-living and relationships: Looking for stories about recent data/research about economic precarity and how it impacts relationships (dynamics, living arrangements, dating etc.).
Deadline: ASAP
Politics:
Can Mark Carney reverse the Liberals’ fortunes? Looking for an academic who can assess the chances of Carney, Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh with an election on the near horizon. Will Donald Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty be the only issue?
Deadline: ASAP
Updated March 13, 2025
Quarter Life: Series written for young people (20s-30s):
Looking for data-driven stories and new research about young people (20s-30s) and relationships.
Deadline: ASAP
Arts:
Canadian film, TV and broadcasting industries and Canadian content: Seeking research analysis around how federal upheavals are affecting or could affect regulatory frameworks and resources supporting Canadian artists, broadcasting and content creators.
Deadline: ASAP
Education:
Seeking pitches related to early and middle childhood and youth summer learning, development and family relationships.
Deadline: Ongoing
Politics:
Looking for an academic who can assess the chances of Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh in the upcoming election. Will Donald Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty be the only issue?
Deadline: ASAP
Looking for a story on the concept of a “world war”. What defines a world war, how do they begin, and are we currently in a world war? And how can global conflict be deescalated?
Deadline: ASAP
Updated March 4, 2025
Five years later: As the fifth anniversary of the WHO’s announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches on March 11, we’re looking for articles on pandemic and post-pandemic related research: How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected everyday life, government policy, responses to pandemics, social interactions? What lessons have we learned? What will happen if there’s another pandemic? And any other pitches
Deadline: ASAP
Quarter Life: Series written for young people (20s-30s):
Looking for a story about how the housing/affordability crisis is impacting the way people in relationships move in together. Who is most affected? How are living arrangements changing? What are the social and psychological effects of these changes?
Deadline: ASAP
Looking for articles on navigating dating and relationships for young people who identify as asexual.
Deadline: ASAP
Arts:
How might U.S. tariffs affect Canadian arts sectors? Seeking analysis.
Deadline: ASAP
The “buy Canadian” movement in response to U.S. tariffs has some Canadians revisiting their streaming packages. Seeking a story delving into this in terms of consumer spending or Canadian content regulation and exploring television and movie watching options.
Deadline: ASAP
Culture + Society:
Should Canada’s statutory holidays be updated to be more inclusive? As Canada becomes more diverse, should celebrations like Diwali, Eid Al Ftr and Chinese New Year be recognized as official holidays as well?
Deadline: ASAP
Podcast:
Looking for a scholar to discuss ways to manage politically induced stress and/or to discuss possible ways forward given the current global political turmoil. Hoping to discuss this issue from one or more of these vantage points: historical, organizational theory, sociology, American Studies, Canadian Studies.
Deadline: ASAP
Business/Economy:
Canada is in a trade war with the US. Looking for a scholar to write a piece that explains and critiques Canada’s reaction to the tariffs.
Deadline: ASAP
Health/Medicine:
COVID-19 anniversary: Looking for updates on how the pandemic has affected things like health policy, disease monitoring and the health system, five years after WHO declaration of pandemic on March 11.
Also interested in other topics relating to COVID anniversary, including:
- Pandemic’s impact on misinformation, politics, trust in infrastructure, as well as on daily life, social trends, relationships, mental well-being, trends
- Pandemics in popular culture: how realistic are the pandemics in movies, TV and books?
- How past pandemics have shaped history, culturally as well in terms of things like the development of public health measures
- How antibiotics and vaccines changed how we look at infectious diseases
- Also interested in stories about historical pandemics, e.g. current research on spread of early plagues, and eradication of diseases like smallpox, polio etc., conditions like sweating sickness
Deadline: ASAP