Written by Sibo Chen, Toronto Metropolitan University. Photo credit: Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press. Originally published in The Conversation. Pumpjacks draw oil in a canola field near Olds, Alta. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has brought fossil fuels and geopolitics to the…
Written by Adrian Ma, Toronto Metropolitan University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. What will it take for the metaverse to live up to its potential? You’ve likely heard recently how the metaverse will usher in a…
Written by Deborah de Lange, Toronto Metropolitan University. Photo credit: Thibault Camus/AP Photo. Originally published in The Conversation. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens during a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after their talks in early February…
Written by Stein Monteiro and Nevyn Pillai, Toronto Metropolitan University. Photo credit: Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press. Originally published in The Conversation. A Haitian family poses for a photograph after taking the oath of citizenship on Parliament Hill in 2019. Welcoming and…
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…