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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...
Good Science Policy Will Require Good Communication and Better Support: A Night Out With CAUT
In what turns out to have been the run up to the unveiling of the federal government’s new Science, Technology, and Innovation Strategy (ST&I), the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) launched its “ Get Science Right” campaign. The...
ASPP-Funded Books Dominate The Hill Times’ Best of 2014 List
On Monday, The Hill Times published its annual list of “Best 100 Books” from the past year. As usual, books funded by the Federation’s Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) were well represented. In fact, 23 of the 100 books – almost a...
Canada and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This blog post was contributed for Human Rights Day, observed on December 10. December 10, 2014 is the 66 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In his Why Canada Cares (McGill-Queen`s University Press, 2012, pp. 4-5)...
Executive Override of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Pearl Eliadis is a Montreal lawyer. She teaches at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and is a Full Member of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. This blog post was contributed for Human Rights Day, observed on December 10. This text...
SSH News: When science and social science collide, SSHRC Storytellers, PM launches Canada First Excellence Research Fund
When science and social science collide Scientific research provides much needed innovation for all kinds of activities and industries, like healthcare, insurance and law enforcement to name a few. But scientific research also relies on the work of...