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The 2015 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is happening at a watershed moment for Open Government in Canada. In November 2014, the Government of Canada released its Action Plan on Open Government 2014-16, a series of commitments to...

As part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada is hosting a Big Thinking presentation by Joseph Yvon Thériault on the topic of contemporary challenges of francophone...

We are pleased with the announcement of the 2015 federal budget, which includes renewed investment in research funding. In response to the budget announcement yesterday, President Stephen Toope stated: “New investments announced today in Canada’s...

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...

Jean-Paul Sartre, an influential French writer, philosopher and politically active intellectual in the mid-20th century, was fascinated by the United States. A new book by Yan Hamel, a professor of literature at TÉLUQ, Quebec’s distance-learning...

Michael Asch says the real defining moment in Canadian history was not Confederation, but the day the first treaty was signed between European settlers and the country’s Indigenous peoples. And he is inviting Canadians to rethink the way we look at...

In Canada as elsewhere, Indigenous peoples have long been marginalized by the law. Recently, however, judicial decisions recognizing the existence of “aboriginal rights” have given certain Indigenous groups leverage in negotiating territorial...

Last week at a conference in Montreal, a group of more than 60 scholars from across disciplines and regions of the country released a major report: Acting on Climate Change: Solutions from Canadian Scholars. The report from this eminent group of...

There is no question that 2015 is a year for change both within Canada and abroad. As noted by Julia Sánchez , President-CEO, Canadian Council for International Co-operation, in her blog on Canada’s engagement with global social justice, not only are...