Margot Young – The Conversation

Some of the young people who are part of the lawsuit filed against the federal government, seen at a press conference in Vancouver, B.C., in October 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

November 26, 2019

Kids facing effects of climate change are taking their governments to court

Margot Young, University of British Columbia

Two recent legal cases in Canada help explain the evolution of climate activism here and around the rest of the world.

Memory can serve as a heavy reminder of the past. Indigenous people gather in Shubenacadie, N.S., in June 2008 to remember the residents of a former residential school and the abuses they suffered. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Dembeck

November 7, 2019

The importance of personal memory on Remembrance Day

Philippe Tortell, University of British Columbia; Margot Young, University of British Columbia, and Mark Turin, University of British Columbia

Memories can be powerful tools to address humanity’s most difficult political, sociological and environmental problems

Students walk past a cross on campus at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C., in February 2017. The school was at the centre of a court battle pitting equality rights against freedom of religion. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

April 3, 2019

The legal conflict between equality rights and freedom of religion

Bethany Hastie, University of British Columbia and Margot Young, University of British Columbia

We must acknowledge that shifting historically vulnerable groups away from the margins means making room in spaces where these groups have not traditionally been welcomed.

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