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Updated August 26, 2025
Environment + Energy:
Looking for articles on the impact of climate change and extreme weather on people experiencing homelessness or tenuous housing. What do governments/organizations need to do to help?
Deadline: ASAP
Health/Medicine:
Looking for an explainer on chikungunya virus: What it is, how it’s spread, how it affects people, where it’s circulating and whether travellers are at risk.
Deadline: Ongoing
Measles update for back-to-school season: Are the current measles outbreaks a concern as kids head back to school? What do parents of school-aged children need to know?
Deadline: ASAP
Politics:
Looking for a scholar to explain Prime Minister Mark Carney’s strategy in dropping tariffs on American goods. Is he playing the long game? Is it the art of the deal?
Deadline: ASAP
Updated August 20, 2025
Arts:
Looking for a scholar to write about the ongoing Oasis tour as it heads to North America, including how it’s broken records and created local economic booms in the UK (20 per cent of the British population has reportedly tried to get tickets) and has also defied expectations re: the brothers’ harmonious reconciliation. Is it just about the music? Or can we also relate to the family estrangements and reconciliations?
Deadline: ASAP
Business + Economy:
Governments and labour strikes: Looking for someone to write a piece for us about the government’s increasing interference in labour rights over the years with back-to-work orders, and what that has meant for unions. What were these orders originally meant to accomplish, and has government overreach tipped the balance against workers? Have corporations come to rely on government support as a crutch during strikes?
Deadline: ASAP
Environment + Energy:
Looking for articles on the impact of climate change and extreme weather on people experiencing homelessness or tenuous housing. What do governments/organizations need to do to help?
Deadline: ASAP
Health/Medicine:
Looking for an explainer on chikungunya virus: What it is, how it’s spread, how it affects people, where it’s circulating and whether travellers are at risk.
Deadline: ASAP
Measles update for back-to-school season: Are the current measles outbreaks a concern as kids head back to school? What do parents of school-aged children need to know?
Deadline: ASAP
Updated August 4, 2025
Quarter Life: Series written for young people (20s-30s):
Matchmaking: Looking for an expert to write a piece for us about dating and matchmaking. What does the research say about its effectiveness, and how has it changed over the years?
Deadline: ASAP
Health/Medicine:
Looking for an explainer on chikungunya virus: What it is, how it’s spread, how it affects people, where it’s circulating and whether travellers are at risk.
Deadline: ASAP
Measles update for back-to-school season: Are the current measles outbreaks a concern as kids head back to school? What do parents of school-aged children need to know?
Deadline: ASAP
Looking for an explainer about liver disease and how alcohol consumption affects the liver.
Deadline: ASAP
Updated July 29, 2025
Quarter Life: Series written for young people (20s-30s):
Matchmaking: Looking for an expert to write a piece for us about dating and matchmaking. What does the research say about its effectiveness, and how has it changed over the years?
Deadline: ASAP
Culture + Society:
Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad: Looking for an expert in media or communications to dissect the controversy surrounding the ad and explain the layers of symbolism behind it.
Deadline: ASAP
Politics:
Looking for a scholar to write about next month’s Pierre Poilievre byelection in Alberta, either on the night of the vote (Aug. 18) and/or an advancer on Election Canada’s move to issue write-in ballots in the byelection, citing the long candidate list.
Deadline: Early August
In an apparent diversionary tactic, Donald Trump is now blaming Barack Obama for his Jeffrey Epstein woes, saying the former president created the deceased pedophile’s client list to implicate the current president. Looking for a scholar to explain why more people don’t sue Trump for slander or defamation, including Obama. Does presidential immunity now allow Trump to defame people?
Deadline: ASAP
Science + Tech:
Predatory video game design: Looking for a scholar to write a piece about the monetization tactics some game developers use to exploit players for financial gain, why they are problematic and whether current regulations fall short of protecting players.
Deadline: ASAP