Written by Irene Gammel, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Marc-Olivier Jodoin Originally published in The Conversation. The arts, literature and culture provide models for hope and resilience in times of crisis. We rarely associate youth literature with existential crises, yet Canada’s…
Written by Cheri Bradish, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP Photo/Seth Wong. Originally published in The Conversation. A New York Mets employee places cutouts of fans in the seats before the team’s first game of the year on July 24. Professional…
Written by Cory Searcy, Ryerson University & Pavel Castka, University of Canterbury. Photo credit: AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi. Originally published in The Conversation. Do you know where your coffee comes from? The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of knowing about…
Written by Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. The regulation of user privacy must consider potential future applications of any collected data. With so many of us stuck at home due to the pandemic,…
Written by Henry Navarro Delgado, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Charlie Riedel Originally published in The Conversation. Members of the boogaloo have taken to wearing Hawaiian shirts. Members of the loosely organized far-right “boogaloo” movement are making the rounds in the…
Written by Olufunke Oba, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Unsplash/Wadi Lissa. Originally published in The Conversation. Black youth suffer the negative effects of programs that bring police and racial discrimination into schools. Last month the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB)…
Written by Anthony Bonato & Alex Nazareth, Ryerson University. Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick. Originally published in The Conversation. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump have had different approaches to tweeting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here the…
Written by Arne Kislenko, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP Photo/Tim Ireland. Originally published in The Conversation. Donald Trump is no Winston Churchill and the coronavirus pandemic is not like a world war. The collective effort to fight the coronavirus pandemic…
Written by Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa, & Jenna Jacobson, Ryerson University. Photo credit Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Users’ online activities can be reviewed by potential employers as a way to pre-screen job candidates.…
Written by Martha Paynter, Dalhousie University, Linda Mussell, Dalhousie University, & Nataleah Hunter-Young, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Senate of Canada, CC BY-NC. Originally published in The Conversation. Segregation cells at Dorchester prison in New Brunswick. Global uprisings in response to…
Written by Anna Triandafyllidou, Ryerson University. Photo credit: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck. Originally published in The Conversation. A new Canadian attends a citizenship ceremony held on Canada Day in 2019. This story is part of a series that proposes solutions…
Written by Wendy Cukier, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Female entrepreneurs in Canada have been heavily impacted by the pandemic. The Canadian government responded to the COVID-19 crisis in record time. It launched programs that…