Written by Melissa Kelly, Toronto Metropolitan University; Natalya Brown, Nipissing University; Victoria Esses, Western University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Common approaches used to encourage internationally educated health-care professionals to work in smaller communities often focus primarily…
Written by Jessica Evans, Toronto Metropolitan University; Linda Mussell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa . Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg. Originally published in The Conversation. An inmate can be seen inside a segregation cell at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston,…
Written by Catherine Ellis, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali. Originally published in The Conversation. The screen in Piccadilly Circus is lit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne. A platinum jubilee is unprecedented for…
Written by Andrea Riccardo Migone, Ryerson University; Alexander Howlett, Ryerson University. Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck. Originally published in The Conversation. A crew member throws a line ashore as the Royal Canadian Navy’s newest Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship,…
Written by Cheryl Thompson, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP/Noah Berger. Originally published in The Conversation. Black women have been fighting for decades for the right to wear their natural hair. Here Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the premiere of ‘The…
Written by Tanya A Pobuda, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Does this lack of representation matter to board gamers? Board games have been having a bit of a cultural moment. They experienced a resurgence of…
Written by Richard Lachman, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Social media has allowed fake news about the Ukraine invasion to proliferate. As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of…
Written by Nicole Blanchett, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. HuffPost Canada was abruptly shut down on March 9, 2020, by Buzzfeed as part of a broad restructuring plan for the company. This closure came two…
Written by Maggie Perzyna, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz. Originally published in The Conversation Although the pandemic was an accelerant, labour shortages have plagued the hospitality industry for years. Recent media reporting about the hospitality industry has been…
Written by Craig Jennex, Ryerson University. Photo credit: (Philip Share/Craig Jennex), Author provided (no reuse). Originally published in The Conversation. The dance floor was a place of belonging in the face of homophobic violence, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and moralistic representations of…
Written by Olufunke Oba, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Most youth in a Waterloo region study were found to have never been taught by a Black teacher. The annual Black History month school assemblies is fading…