Coral Gartner, The University of Queensland and Ara Cho, The University of Queensland
A new study suggests making cigarettes cheaper would risk making smoking-related poverty in Australia worse overall, given it could lead to more people smoking.
French President Emmanuel Macron accompanies Prime Minister Mark Carney to his plane after their meeting in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon on September 20, 2026.
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As the debate over migration policy continues, it’s not too late for the government to address the pitfalls of its plan by looking to its Canadian counterparts.
The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on September 17.
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Making Canada the EU’s first ‘associate member’ may be a solution in search of a problem.
Women react at the site where revelers were killed and kidnapped on the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival, a day after the country marked the second anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel.
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To combat the rise in antisemitism, we need to accurately name what it is and continually confront it as a country.
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and chief trade negotiator Janice Charette listen as Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks about Canada’s response to new U.S. tariffs during a news conference in Ottawa in August 2026.
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The federal government’s double discourse on cultural sovereignty reflects the dilemma of exercising it in the era of free trade.
Ashton Lansdell of the Los Angeles Queens bats during the Women’s Professional Baseball League Opening Day game against the New York Heights on Aug. 1, 2026, in Springfield, Ill.
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What will it take for the league to survive, expand and carve out its own identity in an increasingly saturated pro sports landscape?
President Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 27, 2026, to rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ amid an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and Canada.
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A geographer explains the politics and procedures behind renaming American places.
Most healthy soybean fields like this one in Minnesota rely on fertilizer.
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Canada is a major US supplier of fertilizer ingredients that could get pulled into Trump’s trade war. Farms can go without fertilizer for a while, but not long.
The authors discovered ‘duck-billed’ ornithopod and carnivorous theropod dinosaur tracks, along with rare rounded tracks with four or five digits, which may belong to ankylosaurian (‘armoured’) dinosaurs.
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To understand what’s in the smoke you might be breathing, you have to look at where it’s been.
Unlike almost every other seabird, female marbled murrelets fly inland in spring, leaving the ocean behind to lay a single egg on a branch high in the forest canopy.
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The advantage of virtual reality training is scalability. The same experience can be delivered in many countries simultaneously, without need for travel.
Noah Jones, from Sydney, can no longer access Instagram on his phone. Since December 2025, Australia has banned access to several social media platforms for those under 16.
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Like many other countries, Canada wants to restrict young people’s access to social media. Can Bill C-34 achieve its intended goals?
Cities such as Denver offer several perks for Canada geese, including a constant supply of water, lack of predators and access to food.
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Although Canada geese were not purposely reintroduced in urban areas, many have made cities their permanent homes.
AI tools replicate the assumptions of the systems that built them. Often they are trained using data that does not represent marginalized people.
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AI is transforming Canadian health care, using datasets that underrepresent Black, Indigenous and racialized Canadians.
Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, in April 2026.
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As Canada advances its national AI strategy, we must ask what digital migration data reveal, and what they leave unseen.
Over the next 25 years, global infrastructure investment will nearly double to address concerns over future-proofing, decarbonising and modernising existing buildings, roads and the power supplies serving the world’s communities.
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Maude Brunet, European Academy of Management (EURAM); HEC Montréal; Olivier Choinière, European Academy of Management (EURAM); Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), and Vedran Zerjav, European Academy of Management (EURAM); Norwegian University of Science and Technology
A group of researchers explored governance models in ten countries to see whether they help plan and deliver large-scale infrastructure works more responsibly and efficiently.
A John Trumbull painting of the death of Gen. Richard Montgomery in Quebec on Dec. 31, 1775, during the American war of independence.
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Britain controlled vast tracts in North America beyond the original 13 Colonies. And the American invasion of Canada played a role in the final political settlement.