Alberta politicians have become skilful at creating an ‘us-versus-them’ mentality that paints the province as the home of independent mavericks, says a Calgary-based filmmaker and researcher.
Canadian fashions popularity.
Teen moms share their stories at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
A study of Grade 1 and 2 children in rural Alberta confirms that putting kids of all abilities together in regular classes is possible, practical – and positive for everyone involved. The only caveat, says the man who conducted the study, is that educators may need to pay a bit more attention to the school experience of children who are not fully abled.
The increased privatization of public space is leading to increasing marginalization of the homeless and the people on the fringes of society, says a University of Calgary researcher. And that, she warns, may weaken democracy by keeping better-off people unaware of how others live.
In 1990, singer k.d. lang ignited a controversy in her native Alberta when she ‘came out’ as a vegetarian. But a University of Saskatchewan professor says the way the controversy ultimately played out illustrates the growing diversity and sophistication of Western Canadian society.
First Nations communities and municipal governments in British Columbia are quietly creating and implementing a range of successful cooperation agreements, says a Wilfrid Laurier University researcher.
A Université de Montréal philosopher and ethicist is proposing that governments implement an organ donation tax credit to help increase the number of organs available for transplant.
Consumers have a moral duty to investigate any company they decide to boycott, says a Calgary philosopher.
A Windsor, Ont., researcher says the loss of traditional manufacturing jobs in Canada is fuelling a backlash against feminism.
Middle-aged Canadians are much less worried about the future than their American counterparts, some of whom are close to panic, says an Alberta researcher who has just finished a survey in both countries. And she says the differing attitudes today may foreshadow growing differences between the two countries as that cohort move into old age.
They live in enclaves with little contact with home or with the Mexican mainstream.
Buying higher-quality clothing is part of the trend.
What’s evolving, says researcher, is a multi-dimensional way of communicating.
Economic activity in Latin America and the Caribbean is having negative impacts.
Study says recent B.C. wildfires have people wondering: Should I build a house here?
Facebook may not be your only privacy risk.
Having fewer children, they will be counting on an extended family and non-traditional networks.
The home-cooked meal is alive and well, says a researcher at the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences taking place at Montreal’s Concordia University. It just doesn’t look, taste or feel like a Leave-it-to-Beaver meal from the 1950s.
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