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Credential recognition answers a specific question: Does this person’s training meet the standards required to register here? Integration asks something harder: What happens to their career afterward? (Unsplash+/Getty Images)

Canada recruits internationally educated health professionals. Credential recognition is only part of the challenge

Canada is recruiting internationally educated health professionals, but recognizing their credentials is only one step toward professional integration.
Image obtenue de la libellule Aeshna affinis, qu’on trouve en Europe du Sud et en Asie. (Wikimedia Commons/Sven Damerow)

Une nouvelle étude estime à environ 20 millions le nombre d’espèces d’insectes sur Terre – ce qui double celles menacées d’extinction

Lorsque nous perdons des espèces d’insectes sans même savoir qu’elles existaient, nous ne saurons jamais où elles vivaient ni quel impact elles avaient sur les écosystèmes.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino, left, and President Donald J. Trump wave from the stage after the World Cup final soccer match between Spain and Argentina in East Rutherford, N.J., near New York, on July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

The FIFA World Cup should belong to fans, not super‑rich investors

An institution that belongs to everyone and to no one is a fragile thing. It survives on a shared conviction that some goods are not for sale and belong to the community.
Restorative justice measures could help victims and survivors of intimate partner violence to feel heard and validated. (Unsplash)

6 ways that restorative justice could benefit survivors of intimate partner violence

Restorative justice isn’t appropriate in every case of intimate partner violence. But it could bring justice to some survivors if it adheres to six important principles.
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference at the Ontario Food Terminal in Toronto on June 11, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Arlyn McAdorey

Canada’s new food security strategy invests in technology but overlooks the people who help farmers use it

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.
Crude oil tankers SFL Sabine, back left, and Tarbet Spirit are seen docked at the Trans Mountain Westridge Marine Terminal, where crude oil from the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline is loaded onto tankers, in Burnaby, B.C., June 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Alberta’s proposed West Coast pipeline faces a high‑stakes economic test

A newly proposed pipeline to B.C.’s coast promises tens of thousands of jobs and billions in GDP growth. But falling Asian oil demand and a track record of cost overruns complicate the picture.
Canada fans march to B.C. Place stadium before Canada and Switzerland play a World Cup Group B soccer match, in Vancouver, on June 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Canada was already a soccer nation: Its historic World Cup run proved it

Soccer is already Canada’s most-played sport, but its fans have historically lagged behind its players. A recent record-breaking World Cup run may help close that gap.
The linguistic debates about the creation of humans, which shaped whether the word ‘mankind’ was understood to include women, emerged from the two very different creation accounts in the Book of Genesis. (Unsplash)

When ‘man’ didn’t mean humanity: How language excluded women for centuries

Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.
Depuis des décennies, les psychologues cognitifs savent que la négation ne fonctionne pas. Lorsqu’on vous dit ce que quelque chose n’est pas, votre cerveau ne pense pas à l’alternative. Unsplash

Pourquoi la négation à la sauce IA – « Ce n’est pas X, c’est Y » – est à la fois agaçante et inefficace

Le langage fondé sur la négation est inefficace sur le plan cognitif. Et lorsqu’il est amplifié par des textes générés par l’IA, il fausse la manière dont les gens appréhendent les idées.
Debates over whether public grocery stores can turn a profit miss the point. The more urgent question is: why do so many Canadians need an alternative model to the grocery stores they already have? 3 Paniers Alternative Grocery Store in Montréal, Québec has a solidarity pricing model. (Beccah Frasier)

Canada has alternatives to corporate grocery chains. Here’s what governments can learn from them

Public investment in food retail, distribution and wholesale infrastructure could add urgently needed diversity to Canada’s food landscape.
Prairie farmers have lived through two major canola crises with China in under a decade. Canola plants bloom in a pasture on a farm near Cremona, Alta., in July 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Rising geopolitical tensions show why Canada’s agri‑food trade strategy needs to change

Canada’s agricultural exporters face growing pressure from trade disputes that expose the risks of concentrating exports in too few markets.

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