Canadian skating rinks are diverse meeting and mingling places and seem to nurture respect, support and sociability, a new study stays.
- Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph
Les espaces publics où l’on n’a pas aménagé de toilettes ne sont ni gratuits ni accessibles. Le manque d’investissements dans des commodités, comme des toilettes, diminue la valeur de ces espaces.
Public washrooms are an essential service and the people who maintain them are essential workers. But what happens when a pandemic closes public bathrooms and a civil rights protest breaks out?
Many of us still have a romantic view of farmers surveying rolling hills but our food in Canada increasingly comes from industrial farms aided by agricultural technology. What are the implications?
With so few public washrooms in our cities, vulnerable people are forced to use café and restaurant washrooms. How do mostly minimum wage café and restaurant workers deal with this?
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