By Stephen Winter, Associate Professor in Political Theory, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
After the abuse-in-care apology, the serious business of redress begins. But survivors say government action to date has been inadequate, and they want greater involvement.
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By Kevin Quigley, Scholarly Director of the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance, Dalhousie University
Given his controversial views, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Health Secretary could create challenges for credible news reporting on health topics. However, media can learn from the pandemic.
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By Ingrid Chadwick, Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management, Concordia University
Alexandra Dawson, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Concordia University
Women entrepreneurs are essential for the Canadian economy, a fact recognized by the government’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. This strategy was launched in 2018 and has seen nearly $7 billion be put toward supporting women-owned businesses in Canada.
Although women in Canada engage in entrepreneurship more than in other comparable countries, there is still a significant gender gap. Only 15 per cent of…
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By Michael Hanaghan, Senior Research Fellow in Latin Christianity in Late Antiquity, Australian Catholic University
It’s clear Caracalla and Geta had an intense rivalry. This was kept in check while their father Septimius Severus was emperor. But once he died, their relationship devolved into outright hostility.
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By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Chair of Linguistics and Director of Language Lab, The University of Western Australia
Earlier this year, a Hong Kong finance worker was tricked into paying US$25 million to scammers who had used deepfake technology to pretend to be the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call. Thinking the images on screen were his colleagues, the financier authorised the multi-million dollar transfer to fraudsters posing as friends.
It’s a dramatic example, but the bamboozled office worker was far from alone in being fooled by generative AI. This…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People displaced by fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels at a camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 13, 2024. © 2024 Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Council review of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s human rights record revealed that the government had made little progress addressing the country’s widespread rights issues.The Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a state-to-state rights review held for each country every 4½ years, showed that rights abuses have persisted, if not worsened,…
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Independent UN human rights experts said on Thursday that the forthcoming global plastic pollution treaty must ensure accountability at every stage of the plastic lifecycle, warning against shifting responsibilities to developing nations.
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By Victor Peskin, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Prosecuting leaders indicted for war crimes is difficult. But the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the early 2000s offers a potential playbook.
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor
In an ever-more uncertain world, one thing you can say with a degree of confidence is that, right now in global affairs, all roads lead to Donald Trump. Trump’s re-election to the US presidency – while widely anticipated (especially by the bookmakers) – has kicked off something of a chain reaction.
Whether it’s his track record in his first term in office from 2017 to 2021, comments he made on the campaign trail, comments he has made since the election, his cabinet picks or comments his cabinet picks have made, the prospect of Trump assuming arguably the most powerful office in world…
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By Nello Cristianini, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bath
It may sound strange, but future Nobel Prizes, and other scientific achievement awards, one day might well be given out to intelligent machines. It could come down just to technicalities and legalities.
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel established the prestigious prizes in his will, written in 1895, a year before his death. He created a fund whose interests would be distributed annually “to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”.
Nobel…
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