By Amnesty International
Responding to the lower house of the Algerian Parliament adopting today legal amendments that expand the scope of the death penalty after more than three decades without any executions, Amnesty International’s Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “Today’s decision by the Algerian People’s National Assembly to approve these […] The post Algeria: Upper house of parliament must reject regressive legislation expanding the death penalty after 30 years without executions appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Evan Freeman, Evan Freeman, Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University
The September 2026 removal of a sculpture from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has prompted criticism.
The move is understood by arts activists as reflecting United States President Donald Trump’s wider efforts to appropriate and rebrand the Center and curtail modern styles at federal facilities.
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By Gwendolyn Sasse, Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford
Deirdre MacManus, Clinical Reader in Psychiatry, King's Centre for Military Health Research, King's College London
War-related trauma now affects most people in Ukraine and presents a major threat to the country’s resiliance in the face of continuing Russian aggression.
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By Pascal Vrticka, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Essex
Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together.
But what makes an attachment relationship different from all others? According to the pioneering American-Canadian developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth, it must meet…
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By Catherine Greenwood, Lecturer in Digital Marketing, University of Lancashire
This summer, social media was filled with posts declaring that almost anything was “kinda chic”. Repeating outfits was kinda chic. Being overdressed was kinda chic. Doing something unfashionable could, apparently, also be kinda chic.
But can you remember the content of many individual “kinda chic” posts now? Probably not. What is much easier to remember is the format itself: the language, the rhythm, the way an ordinary behaviour or object was reframed…
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By Jonquil Lowe, Visiting Academic, The Open University
The UK’s pension triple lock has only been in place for 15 years. But it’s done the job it was brought in to do, and now it should be scrapped.
So the prime minister is right to want to change it. Because while it’s been widely treated as politically untouchable, the triple lock is very expensive.
That’s not to say it was unnecessary.
At the time that it was introduced in 2011 (by the Conservative-led coalition) to address the problem of pensioner poverty, the state pension was equivalent to only a sixth…
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By Mikaela Kassar, PhD Student in English, McGill University
Phoebe Friesen, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Ethics, McGill University
The controversy over the misuse of Jordan’s Principle has been used to justify cuts to services, when the real problem is a deep, systemic gap in services for First Nations children.
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By Noah Eliot Vanderhoeven, PhD, Political Science, Western University
Polymarket, a U.S.-based prediction-market website, is taking wagers on who will be London, Ont.’s next mayor. There are also markets for Toronto, Windsor and even Stratford.
The past two years have seen commercial prediction markets move from a niche forecasting tool into mainstream finance, allowing users to buy and sell contracts tied to the outcomes of real-world events ranging from elections to economic indicators.
A 2024…
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By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
John Hawkins, Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
When the federal government released its final budget figures for 2025–26 this week, it prompted a flurry of front-page articles in the conservative press arguing for lower taxes.
The budget figures showed tax revenue in 2025–26 was equivalent to 24.1% of the economy, above the May budget forecast of 23.6%.
Whether we pay too much…
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By Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
Henry Fraser, Law Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
Kathryn Backholer, Co-Director, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University
Big AI companies may already know much more about you than you’re comfortable with, even if you’ve never used their services.
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