Jamie Chai Yun Liew, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa I am heartbroken but I’m not surprised. The targeted killing of eight women in Atlanta, six of them Asian, is a brutal result of decades-long exclusion and oppression, legitimized in law and … Continue reading →
Steven H. Appelbaum, Concordia University Psychopaths are people with a variety of behavioural traits that make them uniquely ruthless in their parasitic, care-free and predatory approach to life. Canadian psychologist Robert Hare suggests that four elements characterize psychopathy: interpersonal factors … Continue reading →
Catherine Clase, McMaster University; Charles-Francois de Lannoy, McMaster University; Juan Jesus Carrero, Karolinska Institutet; Roberto Pecoits-Filho, and Scott Laengert, McMaster University Double masking has emerged as a crowd-sourced method for adding extra layers to our masks, using the masks that … Continue reading →
Iffath Unissa Syed, University of Toronto and Jesse McLaren, University of Toronto It was welcome news to see vaccination efforts against the COVID-19 virus begin in Ontario in December, and that the first recipient was a personal support worker from … Continue reading →
Thomas Klassen, York University, Canada By becoming the first president to be impeached twice, Donald Trump’s controversial and divisive term as president is reaching a surreal ending. Although he will likely remain in office and finish his term on Jan. … Continue reading →
–Britt Santowski A deep cleaning and five days of investigations have gone in under the engine at SPN. For now, it’s back up and running, with additional security. The attacks began on December 30, 2020, taking down the site on … Continue reading →
The following post appeared on Facebook today, regarding garbage dumped near Langford. From the post: Details: The condition of the item is “used” and in “fair” condition. In the message: “To the people who dumped this on the beginning of … Continue reading →
–Karen Mason This has been an incredibly tough year. We were all held captive as a pandemic swept over the world with a grip never experienced in living memory. Shops and businesses closed. Some temporarily, some permanently. With a vaccine … Continue reading →
Lucy van Dorp, UCL A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in parts of the UK. The government has placed some regions including London under new, stricter … Continue reading →
–Britt Santowski, SPN Over 100 people responded to my request for input on the value of age, experience and ethnic diversity of working women. I know a number of you have been waiting for the results. This survey was born … Continue reading →
