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Staff members sharing their harvest at Urban Roots, an urban farm in London, Ontario. Urban agriculture can improve access to fresh food, especially for low-income communities, immigrants and seniors. (Urban Roots London)

Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity

Richard Bloomfield, Western University; Kassie Miedema, Western University, and Rebecca Ellis, Algoma University

London, Ont., adopted Canada’s first stand-alone Urban Agriculture Strategy in 2017. Yet, almost eight years later, many of the strategy’s goals remain unrealized.
For research to contribute to public discourse, it can’t be the only voice in the room. A university gets creative by bringing artists, activists, public servants and researchers together. (citysymposium/Twitter)

The City Symposium: How communities can come together to address their problems

James Shelley, Western University; C. Nadine Wathen, Western University, and Jennifer MacGregor, Western University

City Symposium in London, Ont., brought artists, activists, civil servants and academics together to broaden understanding about health inequity research in the community.
People make their way through downtown Ottawa on June 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Return‑to‑office mandates may not be the solution to downtown struggles that Canadian cities are banking on

Alexander Wray, Western University; Jamie Seabrook, Western University; Jason Gilliland, Western University, and Sean Doherty, Wilfrid Laurier University

Instead of trying to force unwilling workers back to the office, Canadian cities should instead focus on developing downtowns that people genuinely want to visit and experience.
Reproduction of a landscape drawing of London, Ont. (Canada West) in 1855. (Map & Data Centre/Western Libraries at Western University)

Black Londoners of Canada: Digital mapping reveals Ontario’s Black history and challenges myths

Elizabeth Hinds-Hueglin, Western University; David Mitterauer, Western University, and Patrick Kinghan, Western University

The Black Londoners Project approaches Black history geographically by supplementing narratives of 16 Black individuals with archival evidence about their lives.
Researchers investigated how the availability of neighbourhood amenities may have contributed to changes in youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the pandemic. (Unsplash/Paul Hanaoka)

Neighbourhood amenities may have helped youth mental health and stress early in the pandemic

Alexander Wray, Western University; Gina Martin, Athabasca University; Jamie Seabrook, Western University; Jason Gilliland, Western University; Kendra Nelson Ferguson, Western University, and Stephanie Coen, University of Nottingham

Neighbourhood features may have helped youth cope with the mental health impact of pandemic restrictions. Parks didn’t play much of a role but food amenities and the suburbs did.
Researchers examined 15 Ontario municipalities with a major university campus, and found only one (Waterloo) had adopted plans designed to accommodate student housing near the campus. Student-oriented housing under construction in Waterloo, Ont., in 2016. (Evelyn Hofmann)

Student housing crisis: Municipal bylaws have created roadblocks for decades

Alexander Wray, Western University and Nick Revington, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

Local governments have far too often been let off the hook for approaches that discreetly limit where students may live.
A recent inquest examined the deaths of Carol Culleton, Nathalie Warmerdam and Anastasia Kuzyk, and focused on the dynamics of gender-based violence. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Canada’s shadow pandemic: Femicide

Myrna Dawson, University of Guelph

A recent jury examining murders of women urged the federal government to add the term femicide and its definition to the Criminal Code.
Mourners gather at the site of the attack on a Muslim family in London, Ontario. After tragedy, there is no one way to recover from trauma. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Brett Gundlock

A child psychiatrist who knew those killed in the London terror attack offers advice on helping kids deal with trauma

Javeed Sukhera, Western University

Racial trauma in society has been challenging for all of us, especially children and teens. There are practical steps we can all take to help ourselves and our kids heal.
Mourners react during a moment of silence at a vigil for the victims of the deadly vehicle attack on a Muslim family in London, Ont. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)

London terror attack: Canadians have become desensitized to violence against Muslims

Jasmeet Bahia, Carleton University

Four members of a family were killed in a hate crime — only the nine-year-old son survived. Islamophobia has created a culture of hate in Canada that threatens those who are perceived as Muslim.
Mourners gather at the scene of the hate-motivated vehicle attack in London, Ont., which left four members of a Muslim family dead and sent their youngest son to hospital. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Geoff Robins

Muslim family killed in terror attack in London, Ontario: Islamophobic violence surfaces once again in Canada

Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University

Four members of a Muslim family out for a walk were killed in what police say was a hate crime. A researcher on Islamophobia in Canada says it’s not just fringe groups that hold anti-Muslim views.

Related Topics

  1. Anti-Muslim hate
  2. Cities
  3. Gender-based violence
  4. Islamophobia
  5. London, Ontario
  6. Ontario
  7. Quebec Bill 21
  8. Racism
  9. Terror attacks
  10. Terrorism

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