By Muhammad Ilyas Nadeem, PhD Candidate in Obesity & Diabetes | Public Scholar (2024-2025), Concordia University
Cristina Sanza, Digital Journalism Instructor, Centre for Journalism Experimentation (JEX) Researcher, Concordia University
Jessica Murphy, Research Associate, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University
Sylvia Santosa, Professor and former Canada Research Chair Tier 2 - Clinical Nutrition, Concordia University
Canada has quietly become an unexpected leader in global obesity care guidelines, but care at home — where one in four adults now lives with obesity — remains slow and uneven.
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By Noah Eliot Vanderhoeven, PhD Candidate, Political Science, Western University
Concern over ICE’s role in the 2026 Men’s World Cup loom over the tournament given the events unfolding in Minneapolis and across the U.S., heightening calls to boycott the tournament.
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By Joceline Andersen, Assistant Teaching Professor in Communication and English, Thompson Rivers University
Finding a famous face in an unexpected place is strangely thrilling, and cameos in Marty Supreme and other films are part of the art of casting.
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Monday, February 23, 2026
In Geneva, delegates from more than 120 countries gathered on Monday to mark 20 years of the UN Human Rights Council and a shared commitment to international law, amid runaway global instability, wars and resurgent conflict.
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By Morag Rose, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Liverpool
I love walking, and think it can change the world, but I hate wellbeing walks. I’m more interested in how walking can connect us to the places we dwell and the people we dwell with.
As a disabled person, wellbeing narratives frequently ignore my needs. They assume a standard body and often have a moralistic or bossy tone. They can ignore individual access needs and structural inequalities.
My walking is slow and sometimes painful. It is made possible by the NHS, orthotics (specialised, removable…
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By Aishwarya Viswamitra, PhD Researcher, School of Applied Social Sciences, De Montfort University
Sanju Pal built a successful career in management consulting, winning major awards and working at a senior level. Then her health changed.
After being diagnosed with severe endometriosis and undergoing surgery, she returned to work but struggled with pain and fatigue. Months later, she was dismissed for not meeting performance targets. What followed was years of legal action, culminating in a January 2026 ruling that she had experienced discrimination arising from disability under the Equality…
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By Daniel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Sheffield Hallam University
Shilajit has been used for thousands of years in Ayurvedic medicine, but are modern proponents right to claim that it raises testosterone levels?
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By Raul Zepeda Gil, Research Fellow in the War Studies Department, King's College London
The leader of the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, died in custody on February 22, shortly after he was captured by the Mexican authorities. The operation, which came amid renewed US demands for “tangible results” against fentanyl trafficking, appears to have relied on American intelligence support.
This is the most significant intervention against the cartels since the capture of former drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in 2016. The CJNG is one of the strongest…
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By Milan Klöwer, NERC Independent Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Air travel is famously one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise, and the number of air passengers keeps increasing. Electric planes and “sustainable” aviation fuels are still a long way off making a dent in the industry’s emissions – if they ever will.
But new research by me and my colleagues shows aviation could still cut its climate impact dramatically, simply by using planes more efficiently. In fact, rethinking cabin layouts alone could slash emissions…
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By Abigail Marks, Professor of the Future of Work, Newcastle University
As a professor of the future of work, the question I get asked most often is whether AI is going to take everyone’s jobs.
I hear it from students who worry that their degrees will be obsolete before they graduate. I hear it from office workers watching new tools appear in their software. And I hear it from people working in retail and logistics and hospitality and admin, who all suspect that their jobs put them most at risk.
The issue has become a widespread…
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