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Digging into the colonial roots of gardening

Spring came early this year. It’s getting warm, and spring flowers like daffodils and tulips, as well as magnolia trees and cherry blossoms have...

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Ateqah Khaki

How to celebrate Mother’s Day every day to boost moms’ and kids’ well-being

Mother’s Day is coming up soon, and many will be celebrating moms, grandmothers and other maternal figures in their lives. Whether biological or...

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Hali Kil

How to find more information about a drug that your doctor prescribed

You’ve just been given a prescription for a new drug from your doctor. Your doctor told you why she was prescribing the medication, gave you its...

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Joel Lexchin

Ottawa’s efforts to modernize regulations fail to prioritize public safety over profit

The federal government introduced a recurring annual regulatory modernization bill in 2019 covering all regulatory agencies, including energy,...

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Bruce Campbell

Game changer: A labour group in Québec is pushing for a province-wide video game workers’ union

Two labour organizations in Québec, Game Workers Unite (GWU) Montréal and the trade union Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), have...

previous day 10

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Michael Iantorno

University campuses should be places of peacemaking, not venues for proxy wars

Since the October 2023 attack initiated against Israelis by Hamas, a surge in violence has engulfed not only Gaza but also the occupied West Bank...

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Kawser Ahmed

Loblaws boycott: What consumer psychology can tell us about the success of consumer activism

Loblaws has found itself at the centre of public frustration due to soaring food prices. Canadians have expressed their discontent on social media,...

wednesday 20

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Eugene Y. Chan

The health-care crisis won’t be solved without addressing the elephant in the room: Staff workload

Excess workload has been identified as a root cause of the current health-care crisis in report, after report, after report. Excess workload for...

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Patrick Neumann

Paris 2024 Olympics: How the Games are being used to marginalize the most vulnerable

Athletes from around the world are gearing up for the 2024 Summer Olympics that are being held in Paris this year. While the Games are often billed...

wednesday 20

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Umer Hussain

Debunking myths about community housing: What governments and the public should know

Canada’s Housing Plan is pledging an ambitious multilateral approach to build more housing, faster and cheaper, for diverse groups. It includes...

wednesday 20

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Yushu Zhu

Revitalizing Toronto’s downtown core after COVID-19 greatly benefits the city and the region

Downtown Toronto, the core of Canada’s largest city, continues to reel from the lingering aftereffects of the pandemic. Yet after more than four...

07.05.2024 20

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Shauna Brail

Why DEI in Canada struggles to uplift Black people

Canada has a long history of trying to show that we are better than the United States when it comes to race relations. Yet, we also struggle with...

07.05.2024 20

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Christopher Stuart Taylor

Controversial ‘Steal from Loblaws Day’ is not just illegal — it won’t foster meaningful change

Posters declaring May 12 the first annual “Steal from Loblaws Day” began popping up across Toronto the last week of April. They have since spread,...

07.05.2024 20

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Omar H. Fares

The National Aboriginal Hockey Championship celebrates the strength of Indigenous sporting communities

The puck has dropped on another National Aboriginal Hockey Championship (NAHC) — one of Canada’s most unique youth athletic competitions and...

07.05.2024 20

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Taylor Mckee

AI products for kids promising friendship and learning? 3 things to consider

Smart toys with internet connections and AI-enabled robots, with capacities for sophisticated social interactions with children, are widely...

06.05.2024 20

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Nandini Asavari Bharadwaj

Pharmacare’s design could further fragment and politicize Canada’s health system

Over the last several decades, prescription drugs have become critical to preventing, managing and treating health conditions, yet Canada’s...

06.05.2024 6

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Cheryl A. Camillo

How the nursing shortage is affecting the health-care system, patients and nurses themselves

If you worry that there are not enough health-care providers to meet health needs, you are not alone. Seventy per cent of Canadians worry about...

06.05.2024 20

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Lisa Mckendrick Calder

‘Baby Reindeer’ highlights sexual violence against men — but feels indifferent to viewer safety

This story contains spoilers about ‘Baby Reindeer,’ and mentions suicide in the show ‘13 Reasons Why’. Your phone buzzes; it’s the group...

06.05.2024 20

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Jacob Desrochers

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