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Lower inflation does not mean prices will return to where they were before. Inflation measures the average change in prices over time, not which...
Although children sweat less than adults, they are able to regulate body heat in other ways.
In the age of AI we are once again hearing about Luddites, the 19th-century textile workers who sought to protect their livelihoods in early...
Math achievement gaps begin in kindergarten and persist through Grade 9, highlighting the importance of investing in children’s early development.
Although children sweat less than adults, they are able to regulate body heat in other ways.
Human infant helplessness is not a weakness to be outgrown. It is an evolved trait that may be central to our ability to care for others.
Heat waves pose a threat to older adults, but a recent study suggests that they retain an unexpected ability to adapt to high temperatures.
Countries that sign deals with the Trump administration are quickly finding out that the stability and certainty they hoped to purchase was an...
Canada can significantly improve women’s health, in both the short- and long-term, by focusing on five attainable and affordable immediate actions.
Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.
While transit programs are often focused on urban places, it’s just as important to rural communities to maintain transportation links.
Heat waves pose a threat to older adults, but a recent study suggests that they retain an unexpected ability to adapt to high temperatures.
As long as women and other equity-seeking groups are underrepresented, Canada’s clean energy workforce remains inequitable.
Heliconius butterflies eat high-protein pollen and seem to age well.
China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it...
Front-line workers have little control over how customers treat them. New research on taxi drivers points to a simple coping habit.
The women of Homer’s Odyssey were cunning, desiring and powerful. Nolan’s adaptation turns them into figures of suffering, sacrifice and regret.
Ottawa’s $3-billion National Food Security Strategy funds greenhouses, food terminals and processing plants, but not the advisors who help farmers...
The province’s World Cup exemptions show that remote work can be accommodated when governments decide it matters.
The federal government’s role in disaster management has been to provide some funding. However, that limited role can lead to poor co-ordinaton.
Announcing ambitious education policy goals is easier than ensuring institutions, employers and educators have the resources necessary to achieve...
OpenAI’s models were told to find and exploit vulnerabilities. They did — on a company that was never part of the exercise.
Judging this version against an apparent ‘original’ misunderstands both the ancient poem and how myth actually works.
Biodiversity policies fail because governments lack the safeguards, accountability mechanisms and political commitment needed to implement them...
Canada has a promising gender-based violence legal and policy framework, but none of it accounts for the people actually delivering frontline...
Despite successful Ukrainian drone strikes, it’s unlikely either Vladimir Putin’s regime or the Russia-Ukraine war will end any time soon.
If the Commonwealth Games showcase sporting excellence, they also expose profound differences in who has the opportunity to reach the starting line.
AI is transforming Canadian health care, using datasets that underrepresent Black, Indigenous and racialized Canadians.
Wildfire smoke does not carry a passport. Canada cannot thin, log, rake or prescribe-burn its way out of a planetary crisis.
Here’s why Canada is in a tricky spot when it comes to saying more to counter the many inaccurate claims made about the ICC by the United States.
New Brunswick is Canada’s only officially bilingual province. That’s why a recent Supreme Court decision on whether the province’s...
From a Cyberpunk stunt team to a Japanese superhero, Montréal’s Fantasia Film Festival reveals that media evolutions can start with scrappy ideas...
In Canada, tens of millions of birds are killed annually by crashing into glass on buildings.
When we are mis- or disinformed, it is difficult to act with autonomy. We may make decisions that do not align with our beliefs, even when we seem to...
As Canada continues to welcome newcomers, we should remember that behind every immigration policy are people whose knowledge, experiences and...
A resilient food system requires connecting affordability, trade, food safety, biosecurity, regional infrastructure and preparedness before the next...
There’s a widening divide between two Canadas: one marked by working-class misery and homelessness; the other by the unprecedented prosperity of the...
When parents stop a medication they need or interrupt breastfeeding earlier than intended, the impact affects both mother and child. We need better...
High temperatures raise the risk of everyday workplace injuries, yet Canada still has no common standard to protect workers from extreme heat.
Researchers found that neighbourhoods with more children, older adults and racialized people were usually further away from bike infrastructure.
As AI climbs on the shoulders of many mathematicians before it, humans are also able to reach further due to advances by AI.
A newly proposed pipeline to B.C.’s coast promises tens of thousands of jobs and billions in GDP growth. But falling Asian oil demand and a track...
Grassroots activists and marginalized communities are ‘flipping the script’ on surveillance by watching, documenting and gathering information...
Babywearing is an an ancient practice found across cultures for thousands of years. What is new is the growing scientific interest in its benefits.
Buying more planes will not help Canada tackle wildfires if there is not a thought-out plan for their use well ahead of a fire.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Defense Minister Fedorov and Gen. Syrskyi amid military tensions. What does it mean for the...
Buying more planes will not help Canada tackle wildfires if there is not a thought-out plan for their use well ahead of a fire.
Shooters are becoming freelance contractors. Their target’s ideology is entirely irrelevant to them and their involvement is purely transactional.
Violence toward animals and people often occur together. Understanding these connections can improve safety and outcomes for both.
Acting students uncovered hidden elements in a musical score, while bringing a new Canadian musical to life on stage and in a live cast album...