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We Must Tackle and Dismantle Systemic Racism and White Supremacy.
The exploitation, control and violence against Black people in the Americas is not a new phenomenon. We have seen the world of Black people worsen each day, month, year, decade, and century. The events of May 25, 2020 were another breaking point in...

Nostalgia as medicine: Music and resilience during COVID-19 in Iran
I am an Iranian-Canadian-Quebecois doctoral candidate in Communication and lecturer in History of Communication at Université de Québec à Montréal ( UQAM). I am also a musician: I play classical flute and jazz saxophone and compose ensemble music. My...

My multifaceted Francophonie: Coming together to bring a language to life
This article was originally published in French and has been translated with permission from the author. With over 300 million speakers, French is the 5th most widely spoken language in the world. It is also one of the official working languages of...

Le français vue de chaque côté : une conversation entre deux membres de notre équipe de communication à l’occasion de la journée internationale de la Francophonie
Pour encourager chacun à réfléchir à son lien avec la langue française, nous avons demandé à deux de nos collaboratrices bilingues de parler de leur expérience: l'une dont la langue maternelle est le français, l'autre qui parle le français comme...

Assisted Reproduction Policy in Canada: Framing, Federalism, and Failure
My interest in assisted reproduction began on an airplane. In August 2017, I was flying from Fredericton, New Brunswick to Calgary to begin a Master’s degree in political science. The day before my flight, I had grabbed a book – Margaret Somerville’s...

Thinking about War
Reflections on the Congress 2018 Big Thinking lecture entitled Thinking about war with Margaret MacMillan, C.C. organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Regina. In a country like ours, it can be easy to...

Panser le Canada : une histoire intellectuelle de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton, 1963-1971
« Mariage de raison », « deux solitudes », « mal canadien », « marécage », « duel constitutionnel », les métaphores de combat et d’éloignement sont nombreuses dans la littérature pour évoquer les relations conflictuelles entre le Québec et le Canada...

Gender in Canada: Are we really making progress? - Antonia Maioni
In Canada, women remain largely underrepresented in politics and in public life. Research indicates that there are a multitude of reasons for their reluctance to pursue a career in the public sphere and the particular pitfalls they face. How is women...
