Badriyya Yusuf – The Conversation

People hold rally signs during a Toronto rally raising concerns and opposition to the Ontario provincial government’s plans to expand mining operations in the so-called Ring of Fire region in northern Ontario in July 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

March 20, 2024

Indigenous consultation is key to the Ring of Fire becoming Canada’s economic superpower

Andrew Grant, Queen's University, Ontario; Badriyya Yusuf, Queen's University, Ontario; Dimitrios Panagos, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Matthew I. Mitchell, University of Saskatchewan

Ontario’s Ring of Fire could make Canada a minerals superpower, but Indigenous consultation is essential to ensure doing so does not harm reconciliation or Canada’s global reputation.

A researcher at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, works on the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus in December 2021. African countries were penalized by Canada’s travel ban even though they discovered the Omicron variant via complex sequencing work when western nations failed to. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

January 13, 2022

I was ensnared in Canada’s harsh and unscientific African travel ban

Badriyya Yusuf, Queen's University, Ontario

Ottawa’s travel ban against African countries made clear its underlying policy: What matters is not your test result, but where you’ve been. It’s yet another example of anti-Africa discrimation.

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