By Michael R. King, Associate Professor, Gustavson School of Business and Lansdowne Chair in Finance, University of Victoria
Douglas A. Stuart, Assistant Teaching Professor of Accounting, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
Like many retailers, Hudson’s Bay struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its troubles ran deeper. Now, the company is liquidating almost all its stores.
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By Emma Clarke, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Teacher Education, University of York
More children are being permanently excluded from their school in England. In the 2023-24 autumn term, over 1,000 more pupils were excluded than in the autumn term the previous year. Rates of permanent exclusion have risen rapidly since the pandemic, with no sign of slowing down.
What is perhaps unexpected is that the rate…
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By Valerie A. Cooper, Lecturer in Media and Communication, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
By defunding the Voice of America and other state-funded US media outlets, Donald Trump risks opening the airwaves to the more overt propaganda of rival countries.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Banner on the Istanbul Municipality building shows mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, March 22, 2025. © 2025 Human Rights Watch (Istanbul, March 24, 2025) – The formal order by an Istanbul court to detain Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is the latest example of the justice system weaponized to remove a leading opposition politician from the political scene, Human Rights Watch said today. Mayor İmamoğlu’s detention, nominally based on a corruption investigation by the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office, came on the morning of March 23, 2025, the day his Republican People’s Party (CHP)…
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By Amnesty International
Turkish authorities must end the use of unnecessary and indiscriminate force by security forces against peaceful demonstrators and investigate unlawful acts of violence committed by police against protesters, said Amnesty International, as protests against the detention of Istanbul mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, intensify. The call comes following the extension of a blanket protest ban in three […] The post Türkiye: Unlawful and indiscriminate attacks on peaceful protesters must end and protest bans must be lifted immediately appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Gabrielle Principe, Professor of Psychology, College of Charleston
In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash her skull with a rock.
When Eileen testified at her father’s trial, her memory of the murder was relatively fresh. It was less than a year old. Yet the murder happened 20 years earlier, when she was 8 years old.
How can you have a one-year-old memory of something that…
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By Jaigris Hodson, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University
Knowing how to talk about misinformation can help preserve relationships with friends and loved ones that can be frayed during high-stakes election campaigns.
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By Peter Kamerman, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
Andreas C Themistocleous, Clinical lecturer in neurophysiology, University of Oxford
An estimated 1 in 10 people worldwide have diabetes. Africa is the region with the fastest growth and it’s estimated that the number of people on the continent with diabetes will more than double in the next 20 years, increasing to about 55 million people by 2045.
Having diabetes has serious consequences for health and is associated…
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By Temple Uwalaka, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, University of Canberra
Death threats, kidnapping, unlawful detention, torture and assassination are some of the crimes being committed against journalists in Nigeria, according to a recent report. Another recent report details how the police and politicians are responsible for 70% of these harassment cases.
They point to the increased level of threats that Nigerian…
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By Jackson K Njau, Associate professor, Indiana University
The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence of bone tool making was from sites in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago. But archaeologists have now found and dated bone tools in Tanzania that are a million years older.
The tools are made from the bones of large animals like hippos and elephants, and have been deliberately shaped to make them useful for butchering large carcasses.
The discovery of bone implements that are…
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