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Students are being urged to enter the skilled trades as the industry faces labour shortages. (Shutterstock)

September 26, 2022

Canada needs to encourage more youths to pursue skilled trade jobs

Mojan Naisani Samani, McMaster University and Rick Hackett, McMaster University

Canada is facing a critical shortage of skilled tradespeople, only doomed to get worse with retirement rates. Our only hope is to attract more workers before it’s too late.

Former president Donald Trump tosses hats into the crowd before addressing attendees during an event in on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

July 26, 2022

From Trump to Putin: Why are people attracted to tyrants?

Agata Mirowska, Neoma Business School; Raymond B. Chiu, Redeemer University, and Rick Hackett, McMaster University

For our societies to survive, we must take action to figure out the psychology behind an attraction to tyrants — or we will be led in the future by fear-mongering, war-mongering tyrannical liars.

Rapidly advancing technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D-printing, smart-phones, smart-homes, precision medicine and diagnostics, promise to disrupt health care as we know it. (Shutterstock)

May 2, 2019

Canadian health care needs agile leaders and bold visions for the future

Rick Hackett, McMaster University

In an era of rapid technological advance, devastating climate change, increasing inequality and a steadily aging society, health-care leadership development is vital.

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