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Wildfires: charting the path forward
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guests | Shannon Wagner and Mike Flannigan in the news | Transcript | Follow us Description In this episode, we dive into the complex world of wildfire research in Canada...
Digital politics in the age of AI
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Fenwick Mckelvey in the news | Transcript | Follow us Description In this episode, we’re exploring the ever-growing impact of artificial intelligence on digital...
Reframing the Value Proposition of Social Science and Humanities to Society and Policy
About the event | Meet the panelists About the event The upcoming 2025 Canadian federal election is a critical moment for the social sciences and humanities in Canada. With their role in society and policymaking increasingly under question in...
Understanding the roots of extremism in Québec
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Frédérick Nadeau in the news | Transcript | Follow us Description Is the rise of radical groups in Québec and across Canada an isolated phenomenon, or the mirror image...
A call for dialogue: Race, representation and media
Patrick Case, Director, Human Rights and Equity Office, University of Guelph Guest Contributor A recent magazine article on Asian students has stirred a heated debate about balancing freedom of expression with protecting Canadians from discrimination...
Teaching Equity Matters – Race, space and the law, Part II
Angela P. Harris, Berkeley Law School Guest Contributor In Part I of this reflection on teaching race matters I examined a successful story of co-teaching race and the law in Brazil with Denise da Silva. In Part II I draw on an unsuccessful story...
Between militarization and litigiousness: Canada's policy choices in the fight against cybercrime
According to a February 2010 survey sponsored by the antivirus software company Symantec, 79% of respondents in 14 countries believed that cybercriminals will never be brought to justice. As the risks linked to the use of Internet and its...
Teaching Equity Matters – Race, space and the law, Part I
Angela P. Harris, Berkeley Law School Guest Contributor These reflections are based on a workshop I conducted on “ teaching race and the law” at the University of Alberta this past October. I hope these reflections will be useful to those teachers...
Multiculturalism, Multicultiphobia and Pluralism
Phil Ryan, Carleton University Guest Contributor Politics is in part a battle over the meaning of words. Imagine, for example, a parallel universe where United States fundamentalist Pat Robertson’s definition of feminism had become dominant:...