By Alison McAfee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Ecology, University of British Columbia; North Carolina State University
When the results of the Canada’s national honey bee colony loss survey were published in July 2025, they came as no surprise. According to the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists, an estimated 36 per cent of Canada’s 830,000 honey bee colonies had perished over the winter.
These figures used to make headlines. But after almost two decades of the same story ― colonies dying in the winter,…
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By Meg D. Lonergan, Contract Instructor and Doctoral Candidate, Legal Studies, Carleton University
Kyler Chittick, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Alberta
The Supreme Court of Canada’s rejection of child-pornography mandatory minimums reflects an allegiance to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not a crisis.
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By Giselle Thompson, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Meshia Brown, Research assistant, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
The structural vulnerability of many Jamaican schools is linked to decades of under-resourcing, where the state has adopted austerity measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund and other international institutions.
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By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
Imraan Valodia, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
There is a great institutional need for strong inequality analysis. That’s why the world needs to establish an International Panel on Inequality.
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By Sydney Leigh Smith
"I can be a lawyer with a gendered lens, a development expert with a gendered lens, a political scientist with a gendered lens, and a professor with a gendered lens."
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By Mario Schmidt, Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Miriam Maina, Research Associate (African Cities), University of Manchester
Within sight of Kenya’s main international airport in Nairobi’s east, Pipeline residential estate stands out like a sore thumb. Composed almost entirely of tightly packed high-rise tenement flats, the estate has been described by the media as an urban planning nightmare. They point to its garbage problem, its waterlogged and frequently impassable streets, and the effect of dense living conditions on children’s health.
Pipeline’s…
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By Mary Kinney, Senior Lecturer with the Global Surgery Division, University of Cape Town
Nearly one million babies are stillborn in Africa every year. Behind every stillbirth is a mother, a family and a story left untold. Most of these are preventable, many unrecorded, and too often invisible. Each number hides a moment of heartbreak, and every uncounted loss represents a missed opportunity to learn and to act.
As a public health researcher specialising in maternal and newborn health, I have spent the past two decades working on strengthening health systems…
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By Jacqueline Peel, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
Expectations were extremely low ahead of this year’s UN climate talks. Remarkably, organisers in Brazil managed to secure real progress at COP30.
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Scolded for wanting to go to school as a girl and dismissed or ignored as an adult, Awrelia from Wau in South Sudan has learnt to advocate for herself, her children and for the women in her community.
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By Amnesty International
Leaders at COP30 in Brazil failed to agree to place people over profits as a lack of unity, accountability and transparency chipped away at delivering the urgent and effective climate action needed, though there were some bright spots, Amnesty International said today at the end of the annual UN climate summit. The headliner COP30 ‘Global […] The post COP30: Rights trampled, yet people power demonstrates that humanity will win appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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