SHOCKING: 16 | Mind Blowing Facts

Newcomers to Canada are supportive of Indigenous Peoples and reconciliation

Public education about Canada’s treatment of Indigenous Peoples is an important component of the process of reconciliation.

The Conversation · Jun 20, 2022

Ontario's child-care agreement is poised to fail low-income children and families

Many parents, economists and and child-care advocates celebrated the signing of Ontario’s early learning and child-care agreement with the federal government at the end of March.

The Conversation · Jun 20, 2022

How the slow-burning housing crisis is driving hunger in Canada

Canada’s housing crisis is constantly in the news: sky-high prices, mixed with high levels of inflation and household debt, is a recipe for disaster. Inflation is also impacting food prices, and as wages remain stagnant food insecurity appears to be on the rise.

The Conversation · Jun 20, 2022

Strip searches are ineffective, unnecessary and target racialized Canadians

With the Toronto Police Service’s release of race-based data on strip searches as part of its Race and Identity-based Data Collection Strategy, we can clearly see who it chooses to subject to strip searches.

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2022

Building bridges between scientific and Indigenous knowledge

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series that includes live interviews with some of Canada’s top social sciences and humanities academics. It is co-sponsored by The Conversation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Check back later for the video recording of the interview.

The Conversation · Jun 15, 2022

Canada shouldn't be smug about gun violence — it's a growing problem here, too

The Canadian government has tabled new legislation to strengthen the screening process of individual firearm owners, institute a mandatory buyback of banned semi-automatic military style firearms and to ban the sale, import and transfer of handguns.

The Conversation · Jun 15, 2022

Why New Zealand is right to call out Canada on its dairy industry

When it comes to dairy and free trade, Canada wants it both ways. New Zealand’s dairy dispute with Canada reveals the ongoing tensions within Canada’s trade agenda.

The Conversation · Jun 12, 2022

Thin-skinned blue line: Police fight against defunding, showing their true colours

Since the police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 and the subsequent mass mobilizations for police defunding and abolition, the defund movement has continued to organize.

The Conversation · Jun 9, 2022

Adapting to life with COVID-19: Lessons our own immune system can teach us about public health information

The last of Ontario’s COVID-19 mask mandates — which have still been in effect in settings like hospitals and public transit — are scheduled to expire on June 11. While border protocols, such as random testing, have been extended at least until the end of June, long lineups at Toronto’s…

The Conversation · Jun 9, 2022

Challenging the whiteness of queer organizations

Pride parades were established to commemorate the strife experienced by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and trans people at the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City’s West Village. Parades worked their way into Canada to help celebrate queer life across two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex and asexual (2SLGBTQIA+)…

The Conversation · Jun 8, 2022