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Canada’s first gender-equal cabinet is being celebrated by equality and diversity advocates but criticized by those who believe that using selection criteria like gender, race, or ethnicity violates merit. Those who trumpet merit believe that...

We all dread the presenter who reads directly from the slides or paper in a monotone voice. Worse still is when that monotone voice uses heavy jargon that no one outside the field will understand. Shari Graydon says “scholars are trained to be...

Marnina Gonick is project leader on two projects funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Leaders Opportunity Fund (now named the John R. Evans Leaders Fund). She will be attending the 2015 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences...

The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (the Caring Society) is thrilled to be a part of the 2015 Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences. We invite attendees to see the “Caring Across Boundaries” photo exhibition that brings...

Partout dans le monde, on s’efforce d’inventer des solutions juridiques pour mettre fin au terrorisme. Le Canda ne fait pas exception : un projet de loi propose des détentions préventives, un partage d’information entre agences et un mandat au...

In her recent op-ed for The Globe and Mail, Federation President and McGill Professor Antonia Maioni rightly asks why women, who have outnumbered men at universities for years, remain underrepresented in leadership positions in the workplace. Behind...

Professor Ummni Khan, Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, is not one to shy away from “taboo” research topics. Her latest book, Vicarious Kinks: SM in the Socio-Legal Imaginary (University of Toronto...

Hockey is arguably the most identifiably Canadian cultural marker. We can take its national significance as a given considering that even the Prime Minister has found time in his busy schedule to write a book about the sport! My goal in Hockey, PQ...

This year at Congress, the Federation hosted a four-part series dedicated to equity issues, which included the following sessions: Challenging casual homophobia in schools, sports, and society Sochi and beyond: Russia's anti-gay legislation, human...