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This blog post marks the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17. For more information about this day, go here. Over the past 40 years poverty in Canada has become increasingly complex, racialized and often...

Following five televised leaders’ debates in the 2015 Canadian federal election, Joan Sangster, President of the Canadian Historical Association and Stephen Toope, President of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences weigh in on the...

Immigration and multiculturalism are important aspects of North American society. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are welcomed by Canada and the United States every year. This Big Thinking panel at Congress 2015 examined integration policies as...

It is nearly impossible for a Canadian politician to criticize the oil industry, says Dominique Perron, author of a new book that looks at identities, myths and the discourse surrounding the oil industry in Western Canada. That fact is a major...

In a recent BBN interview, Kevin O`Leary offered unsubstantiated commentary about liberal arts degrees, and History degrees in particular. He stated: “…stop going for liberal arts degrees because it is useless”; “come out with a History degree, you...

Each year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance asks Canadians to identify their priorities for the upcoming federal budget. In response, the Federation puts forward recommendations pertaining to the social science and humanities...

James Brander, President, and Michael Veall, Vice-President On behalf of the Executive Council of the Canadian Economics Association Guest Contributors We have reviewed the proposed changes described in the “Briefing on SSHRC’s Renewed Program...

Ryan Saxby Hill, Media Relations Photo Courtest of slightly-less-random on Flickr The federal budget was released last week to much (but seemingly unsustainable) attention from the national press. Generally, the Federation was pleased that SSHRC was...

Judy Rebick, Ryerson University Guest Contributor It is International Women’s Day 2010, forty years after the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. A generation has passed, my generation. In some ways, there has been a revolution in...