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Public support for trans and gender-diverse people is declining, and that decline is being driven by political and media discourse.
New research shows that Canadian attacks on Indigenous rights are part of a clear international trend of what’s known as recolonization.
Lower inflation does not mean prices will return to where they were before. Inflation measures the average change in prices over time, not which specific prices are rising or falling.
In the age of AI we are once again hearing about Luddites, the 19th-century textile workers who sought to protect their livelihoods in early industrial England.
Math achievement gaps begin in kindergarten and persist through Grade 9, highlighting the importance of investing in children’s early development.
Although children sweat less than adults, they are able to regulate body heat in other ways.
Human infant helplessness is not a weakness to be outgrown. It is an evolved trait that may be central to our ability to care for others.
Countries that sign deals with the Trump administration are quickly finding out that the stability and certainty they hoped to purchase was an illusion.
Canada can significantly improve women’s health, in both the short- and long-term, by focusing on five attainable and affordable immediate actions.
Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.
While transit programs are often focused on urban places, it’s just as important to rural communities to maintain transportation links.
Heat waves pose a threat to older adults, but a recent study suggests that they retain an unexpected ability to adapt to high temperatures.
Heliconius butterflies eat high-protein pollen and seem to age well.
As long as women and other equity-seeking groups are underrepresented, Canada’s clean energy workforce remains inequitable.
The women of Homer’s Odyssey were cunning, desiring and powerful. Nolan’s adaptation turns them into figures of suffering, sacrifice and regret.
Front-line workers have little control over how customers treat them. New research on taxi drivers points to a simple coping habit.
China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.
Ottawa’s $3-billion National Food Security Strategy funds greenhouses, food terminals and processing plants, but not the advisors who help farmers put any of it to work.
The province’s World Cup exemptions show that remote work can be accommodated when governments decide it matters.
The federal government’s role in disaster management has been to provide some funding. However, that limited role can lead to poor co-ordinaton.
Announcing ambitious education policy goals is easier than ensuring institutions, employers and educators have the resources necessary to achieve them.
OpenAI’s models were told to find and exploit vulnerabilities. They did — on a company that was never part of the exercise.
Judging this version against an apparent ‘original’ misunderstands both the ancient poem and how myth actually works.
Biodiversity policies fail because governments lack the safeguards, accountability mechanisms and political commitment needed to implement them consistently.