May 6, 2020 | 鈥淐ivil liberties are not designed only for times of peace and stability. They assume special, even critical, importance during public emergencies.鈥� In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and emergent lockdown policies, Pearl Eliadis discusses the importance of upholding civil liberties.
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Published on: 6 May 2020
芦 What has the science of聽happiness聽got to do with our current coronapocalypse? Plenty, of course. It is interesting that much of what is being discussed now about how to stay sane, connected, and even happy while locked up, or out of a job, is what economists studying 鈥渉appiness鈥� have been advocating for years. We all know at least some friends, colleagues, and family who have suffered tremendously from the isolation and disruption and, of course, many of us are struggling acutely as this post goes live.
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Published on: 5 May 2020
April 30, 2020聽| In this op-ed, Irwin Cotler argues that while the recent reforms in Saudi Arabia should be welcomed, the international community, Canada included, cannot give Saudi Arabia a pass.
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Published on: 5 May 2020
After one week on the job, members of the federal government鈥檚 new immunity task force say they are coming to grips with a towering wall of uncertainty that obscures the true extent of COVID-19 in Canada.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment 鈥� because so little is known about how many people are immune to the COVID-19 virus,聽or how long such immunity might last. "This is all going to be tricky," said Dr. Catherine Hankins, who co-chairs the leadership group of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force 鈥� part of the federal government's anti-pandemic research strategy.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
The province may push back the dates of schools reopening, especially in Montreal, if the spread of the virus does not slow down, said Ciriaco Piccirillo, a professor in the department of microbiology and immunology and in the departement of medicine at 9I制作厂免费.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
芦 The European Union is in trouble. From the start, its countries haven鈥檛 been on equal footing. But COVID-19 has shone a stark light on the dissimilarities between its national economies. The crisis has also laid bare that EU members have significantly different views on what obligations they have to one another.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
April 23, 2020 | For centuries Americans have battled others, and each other, in the name of freedom, sometimes weaponizing the word, sometimes twisting the notion out of recognition. David Shribman comments on the shifting definition of American liberty, and what it means in the context of the current protests against COVID-19 lockdown measures.
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Published on: 27 Apr 2020
The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer within the next 30 years, a聽study says, which will result in "devastating consequences for the Arctic ecosystem," according to聽9I制作厂免费聽in Montreal. Sea ice is frozen ocean water that melts each summer, then refreezes each winter. The amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic has been steadily shrinking over the past few decades because of global warming. Since satellite records began in 1979, summer Arctic ice has lost 40% of its area and up to 70% of its volume, the聽Guardian聽said.
Published on: 23 Apr 2020
April 17, 2020聽| The digital age has completely disrupted global governance. Now that COVID-19 has disrupted nearly everything else, it is time to start planning for what comes next, say Max Bell School professor聽Taylor Owen and聽Rohinton P. Medhora.
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Published on: 22 Apr 2020
April 22, 2020 | History has shown that human rights do not co-exist easily with states of emergency. With Quebec鈥檚 declaration of a state of emergency, Pearl Eliadis expresses the need to consider how these extraordinary measures will impact the most vulnerable among us.
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Published on: 22 Apr 2020
With jobs lost, internships evaporating and the prospect of summer employment fading, many students say they鈥檙e just trying to get through the first phase of the crisis without fumbling their final exams. Particularly for those who were already on the edge financially, the shift to remote learning has not been easy. For students who had relied on computers in school labs, for example, or campus internet connections, the rapid transition to online learning created expensive hurdles.
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Published on: 21 Apr 2020
April 16, 2020 | With climate change being one of the most contentious issues in the 2019 federal election, it has become evident that Canadians are concerned with reducing the national carbon footprint. Despite this, policy responses to this issue have not been united. In this podcast, Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan elaborates on the nuances of environmental policy, and how it serves both the economy and the climate.聽
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Published on: 16 Apr 2020
April 15, 2020 | In public health discourse, there is a lack of contrarianism, dubbed heterodoxy, that is almost completely missing from the national conservation. Andrew Potter elaborates on the need to question the official response to the pandemic, and the narrowness of the options that we are being given for getting back to normalcy.
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Published on: 16 Apr 2020
April 9, 2020 |聽Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic stands in marked contrast to that of the United States, and the crisis seems to be helping to unite Canadians like no other event in years. Read what聽Peter Loewen,聽Taylor Owen and Derek Ruths had to say.
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Published on: 15 Apr 2020
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