Expanding the circulation of our comedic content and continuing to invest in the production of stand-up specials — which is relatively low cost — could hugely boost the careers of Canadian comedians.
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New research shows how university garden initiatives can help drive transformative change and nurture a new generation of environmental and socially conscious change-makers.
Global warming is melting away an iconic cornerstone of Canadian culture — outdoor skating.
Climate and environmental insecurity is set to grow in severity as the world warms. The upcoming launch of a new NATO climate change and security centre in Montréal aims to address these concerns.
Young Black men are being denied employment for multifaceted reasons, and when they do find work, are often trapped in low-paying jobs.
Decades of activism have resulted in legislation and infrastructure to make cities more accessible, but the lived experiences of disabled residents shows there’s still a long way to go.
The 1976 Olympics marked a turning point in Olympic history: it was the first highly visible security operation, which has since become the norm for Olympic Games.
Montréal is home to one of the world’s largest brain banks, the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank, where discoveries about different neurological and psychiatric diseases are made.
Front-line workers who support unhoused people say far from being a form of support, mixed police squads add a layer of surveillance and harassment.
Debates over what “mapping” means show how Indigenous communities still have to advocate for and defend their cartographic methods in order to uphold their connections to the land.
Interactive artworks are frequently seen in Montréal’s public spaces, providing sensory interactions. While these installations are entertaining in some way, there is a certain monotony in them.
Montréal’s response to a new report on racial profiling shows little appetite for change.
A team of scholars is digitizing the scripts of Eaton, the Montréal-born daughter of a Chinese mother and an English silk importer father.
Gentrification is often used to describe the economic impacts of urban development. However, racialized communities in particular disproportionately feel its detrimental impacts.
Local media ownership brings a level of accountability to the news business and offers benefits to communities by increasing voter turnout, reducing polarization and saving communities money.
In the age of the Black Lives Matter movement, Basquiat’s work is more relevant than ever. It highlights racial inequality and violence against racialized people.
New research shows police budgets have continued to increase in all major Canadian cities in the aftermath of the defund the police movement.
A schooling reform project is taking lessons from innovative high schools and educators in New Zealand, Southern California and Canada to make schooling more relevant for students today.
We cannot think of nature as something set aside in wildernesses, far from human activity. We need to conserve some elements of nature everywhere, including in the cities we live in.
The UN biodiversity summit COP15 in Montreal is over. Here’s what should happen next.
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Associate professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor of English and former Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub, University of British Columbia
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Professeur titulaire, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Assistant Professor, Adult Education, Concordia University
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Professeur agrégé, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Professor of Political Science, Athabasca University
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Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning; Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University, Ontario
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Visiting Research Fellow, Edinburgh Napier University
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PhD Student, New York University
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British Academy Global Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Political Science, Concordia University of Edmonton
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Research Associate, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, Psychosocial Difficulties, University of Oslo
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Postdoctoral fellow, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University