By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Star has again secured a lifeline and staved of collapse in the near term. But there are bigger questions about the profitability of casinos in Australia in general.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The cyclone looks set to hit many household budgets – from higher building costs to damaged crops raising prices on staples like fruit and vegetables.
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By Joshua M. Pearce, John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
The use of information technology (IT) has significant environmental and social impacts, including human mortality from climate change. One striking example is the carbon emissions and impacts associated with digital communication.
To quantify the human cost of carbon-emitting technology, researchers use the 1,000-ton rule that estimates that for every 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide released…
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By Aisha Ahmad, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto
Who are the 10 per cent of Canadians who support Trump and his annexation threats? They are likely people afflicted with cognitive biases that prevent them from accurately assessing risk.
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By Stacy L. Lorenz, Vice Dean and Professor, Physical Education and History, Augustana Campus, University of Alberta
Braeden McKenzie, Postdoctoral Fellow & Equity Data and Research Analyst, University of Victoria
With their ‘elbows up,’ Canadians are counting on a Gordie Howe-style response — rational, expert, and effective — in a trade war with the United States that may just be getting started.
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By Mark Turin, Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Ross Perlin, Lecturer, Linguistics, Columbia University
Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language until now. But Americans will not stop using languages other than English because of an executive order.
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By Nicole Rosen, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions, University of Manitoba
Opinions on language are not based in any objective standards of beauty or aesthetics, but rather on our attitudes about the people speaking them.
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By Anthony Sanfilippo, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Queen's University, Ontario
Neil Seeman, Senior Fellow, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, and Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Despite a shortage of physicians, Canada still struggles with the question of whether a doctor licensed in one province should be automatically qualified to practice in others.
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By Sandiso Mnguni, Honorary Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
This is the first time that a fossil thrips has been recorded anywhere in Africa, or the entire southern hemisphere.
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By Ernest Harsch, Researcher, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, Columbia University
It didn’t take long for the new government of John Mahama in Ghana to find a dramatic way to highlight its commitment to combating corruption. On 12 February 2025 his special prosecutor declared the previous finance minister a “wanted fugitive” for going abroad to evade questioning for suspected financial irregularities, before later…
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