By Stewart Prest, Lecturer, Political Science, University of British Columbia
Conservative Lorne Doerkson, a man who hadn’t even campaigned to be leader of his own party, will be British Columbia’s next premier after his party won an election that didn’t need to be held against an opponent who largely defeated himself.
Even in a province long accustomed to unprecedented…
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By Rylan Graham, Associate Professor, School of Planning and Sustainability, University of Northern British Columbia
Locating professional sports arenas in urban areas can significantly change the physical and social character of downtown neighbourhoods, raising important questions about who stands to benefit.
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By David J Finch, Professor, Innovation and Marketing, Mount Royal University
Stephen Murgatroyd, Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Remember BlackBerry? Canada’s smartphone pioneer once dominated business communications. Then everything changed. Apple and Google created platforms designed to evolve as technology and users’ needs changed.
Canada’s post-secondary education and vocational training systems face a similar risk. Canada spends more than $66 billion annually on universities and colleges. Yet despite having one of the world’s…
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By Gideon Mordecai, Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Don Svanvik, Elected Chief Councillor, ʼNa̱mǥis First Nation
A new study with unprecedented access to Atlantic salmon farms in British Columbia raises urgent questions about the federal government’s approach to regulating salmon farms and highlights disease risk to wild salmon populations.
The Broughton Aquaculture Transition Initiative — a multi-government agreement with the province and the Mamalilikulla,…
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By Freisy González
An ethnographic look at Venezuela's María Lionza cult, examining how LGBTQ+ mediums challenge traditional gender roles and face discrimination while channeling diverse spiritual entities
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By Hali Healy, Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
In South Africa, a remote coastal community has used counter-maps to document wetlands and sacred sites, showing what mining and a toll road threaten to destroy.
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By Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Senior Lecturer in Media and Digital Studies and Deputy Head of School, Rhodes University
Chinedu Richard Ononiwu, Lecturer, Department of Broadcasting, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Masaki Magack, Teaching Associate in Communication, Culture & Media Studies, Howard University
Many fact-checkers are moving away from declaring claims as true or false, and trying to help people judge information for themselves.
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By Jonathan Munemo, Professor of Economics, Salisbury University
Zimbabwe’s central bank wants people to use the ZiG, a gold-backed local currency launched in April 2024, alongside the US dollar. A proposed real-time payment system based on Indian technology could help make the ZiG easier and cheaper to use.
But digital payments will strengthen the currency only if people have good reasons to trust it.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is negotiating…
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By Daria Dergacheva
In the latest GV podcast, we discussed why Russia restricts access to many social media services, while Belarus does not impose comparable restrictions; censorship, surveillance, and digital authoritarianism — Belarusian style.
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By Fernanda Canofre
“Under normal conditions, this is already serious enough, because the platform rules over the information flow in a society, but when you apply it to an electoral dispute, it's even more serious.”
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