By Aly Bailey, Assistant Professor in Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
Turning hobbies into income streams may ease financial pressure, but it can also drain the joy that made them meaningful in the first place.
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By J. Andrew Deman, Professor of English, University of Waterloo
In a new media era, comic fans share our comics experience with others online — debating, reflecting, recommending and enjoying.
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By Ruolz Ariste, Adjunct Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University
As Canada celebrates meeting the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) target of spending two per cent of GDP on defence, it’s important to remember this spending isn’t counted within the concept of what’s known as social GDP, an alternative metric focused on measuring a nation’s social development, well-being and sustainability rather than just monetary production.
Excessive…
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By Léa Clermont-Dion, Professeure associée en éducation spécialisée en études féministes, Concordia University
Over the past 10 years, masculinism has moved from the fringes to the centre of public debate, driven by social media and its viral dynamics.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will leave on Tuesday for his second fuel security mission within a week.
He will visit Brunei and Malaysia, after his trip to Singapore last week won assurances that the country would not be putting restrictions on its exports of liquid fuel.
In Brunei Albanese will meet Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah to discuss energy, food security, and the bilateral flow of essential goods.
Brunei supplies 9% of Australia’s diesel imports, and 11% of its fertiliser-grade urea imports. Australia exports food and agricultural products to Brunei.
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By Travis Leicher, Doctoral Student, Politlical Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
As the Liberal government inches closer to a majority thanks to the latest Conservative floor crossing, its legitimacy is being called into question.
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By Danica Sims, Senior lecturer in Medical Education, University of Oxford
Health workers consistently move from poorer countries to richer ones, a pattern that tracks closely along lines drawn by colonial history.
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By Jonathan Presley, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Evelyn Ersanilli, Senior Reseacher, University of Amsterdam
Labour migration from Kenya was oriented towards Africa, North America and Europe until the 1990s. Kenyans then started moving to the Gulf countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Most Kenyan labour migrants to the Gulf perform low-waged work, the women in domestic occupations and the men as security guards.
By 2025…
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By Zulker Naeen
As Iran-Israel-US tensions escalated into conflict and supply chains disrupted, Bangladesh is facing an energy crisis, heavily exposed by its reliance on imports, which supply about 95 percent of its national energy needs.
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI – the first global body of its kind – is gearing up for its inaugural in-person summit.
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