Kamyar Razavi, Simon Fraser University New normal. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fuelled heat crisis, all sorts of superlatives have been used to describe never-before-seen temperatures: the British … Continue reading →
Hello my dear and loyal SPN Readers, I am undergoing knee replacement surgery on Wednesday so I won’t be live-updating on SPN for about a week. (And if I’m posting during that period, I probably shouldn’t be…!) But, please stay … Continue reading →
While I am happy to learn that an intersectional lens was included as a guiding principle in the National Action Plan (NAP), and that it recognizes the higher rates of victimization for Indigenous women and girls who have disabilities (IWagWid), … Continue reading →
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 →
