Written by Linying Dong, Ryerson University. Photo credit Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Despite massive investments, Canada’s health-care system has not reaped the benefits of digital technology like banking and retail sectors have. Recently Ontario released its Digital First…
Written by Wendy Cukier, Ryerson University. Photo credit Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Engineering programmes can learn about recruitment, inclusion and retention from different fields. The 30th anniversary of the Montréal Massacre is an opportunity to reflect on what…
Written by Cheryl Thompson, Ryerson University. Photo credit Focus Features. Originally published in The Conversation. Why is ‘Harriet’ receiving a Twitter backlash? When Harriet, the biopic about Harriet Tubman, debuted earlier this month, reviews were mostly favourable and it did…
Written by Tracey Raney, Ryerson University & Loleen Berdahl, University of Saskatchewan. Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken. Originally published in The Conversation. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Chrystia Freeland meet in Edmonton after she was named deputy prime minister…
Written by Brad Poulos, Ryerson University. Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld. Originally published in The Conversation. Cannabis plants are seen during a tour of a Hexo Corp. production facility in October 2018 in Masson-Angers, Québec. The province is raising…
Written by Peggy Nash, Ryerson University. Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld. Originally published in The Conversation. Chrystia Freeland, newly named deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs, speaks following the swearing-in of the new cabinet at Rideau Hall…
Written by Dr. Steven N. Liss, Vice-President Research and Innovation, Ryerson University. Originally published in Research Infosource Inc. Knowledge creation and the headwaters of innovation are deeply embedded in the tradition of university research, scholarship and creative activities. Our students,…
Written by Anna Triandafyllidou, Ryerson University and Katie Kuschminder, United Nations University. Photo credit AP Photo/Renata Brito. Originally published in The Conversation. A migrant hugs an SOS Mediterranee rescuer aboard the Ocean Viking ship before stepping into the port of…
Written by Asmaa Malik & Sonya Fatah, Ryerson University. Photo credit Bank Phrom Originally published in The Conversation. Canadian newsrooms seem reluctant to share data on the diversity of their newsrooms but doing so would help hold accountable the fifth…
Written by Patrick Neumann & Cory Searcy, Ryerson University. Photo credit AP Photo Ahad. Originally published in The Conversation. Bangladeshi child labourers work at a balloon factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Consumers must demand products made under favourable working conditions. Halloween…
Written by Katie Lebel, Ryerson University and Ann Pegoraro, Laurentian University. Photo credit AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez. Originally published in The Conversation. Bianca Andreescu serves to Serena Williams during the women’s singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships, on…
Written by Tracey Raney and Mackenzie Gregory, Ryerson University. Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick. Originally published in The Conversation. Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has had to hire security due to sexist vitriol aimed at her in public. Women…