Hannah Brais, McGill University; Alex Nelson, Western University; Jesse Jenkinson, University of Toronto, and Kaitlin J. Schwan, York University, Canada Visible homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the housing crisis across Canada. For women, girls and gender-diverse people, homelessness … Continue reading →
Lisa Howell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Kiera Brant-Birioukov, York University, Canada, and Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa As we move towards Sept. 30, many schools and universities will be talking about observing the new National Day for Truth and … Continue reading →
Bruce McAdams, University of Guelph and Rebecca Gordon, University of Guelph Restaurant operators across Canada are struggling to find enough staff to run their operations. This labour crisis has been highly publicized by Canadian media as a “labour shortage.” A … Continue reading →
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 →
