By Michel Bouchard, Professor of Anthropology, University of Northern British Columbia
As Russian tanks rolled towards Kyiv in February 2022, a quick Russian victory seemed assured. But as Ukrainian soldiers fought off Russian invaders, Ukrainian netizens launched waves of memes to provide hope to a nation under existential threat.
These memes often mocked Russian hubris and incompetence, drawing upon news and online clips as fodder to attack Russian propaganda.
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By Frédérick Nadeau, Chercheur postdoctoral, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Tristan Boursier, Docteur en Science politique, Sciences Po ; Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
Active Clubs combine fitness and white nationalism, transforming the body into a tool for radicalization and normalizing far right ideology as part of everyday life.
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By Brodie Ramin, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
A fault line in Canada’s Yukon territory has stirred after more than 12,000 years of geological sleep. Researchers studying the Tintina Fault, which stretches 1,000 kilometres from northeast British Columbia into the Yukon and towards Alaska, have found evidence that the fault has built up at least six metres of unrelieved strain.
Like a loaded weapon, it may now be primed for a massive…
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By Sara Kells, Director of Program Management at IE Digital Learning and Adjunct Professor of Humanities, IE University
In ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It was governed by deep-rooted social principles that ensured lively, inclusive, healthy debate.
Today, our public squares have moved online to the digital feeds and forums of social media. These spaces mostly lack communal rules and codes – instead, algorithms decide which voices rise above the clamour, and which are buried beneath it.
The optimistic idea of the internet being a radically democratic space feels like a distant memory. Our conversations…
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By Oiwan Lam
What we need includes an independent investigation into the malpractice surrounding repair project bidding, the failure of the current monitoring system and the inaction of government authorities upon receiving complaints.
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By Amnesty International
Since the current Israeli government took office in December 2022, the authorities have intensified their policies aimed at displacing Palestinians in parts of the occupied West Bank known as Area C which is under Israeli control. These efforts have surged following the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023 and Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In the Northern Jordan Valley, these policies—coupled with escalating settler violence—have […] The post Rasheed Khudeiri: “They steal the land, the water, by force” West Bank activist on Palestinians’ struggle to remain on…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Federal agents detain a woman exiting an immigration court hearing in New York City, on August 1, 2025. © 2025 Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics undercutting protection for undocumented crime survivors weakens law enforcement’s ability to investigate and prosecute crimes, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 50-page report, “‘We Need U’: How the U Visa Builds Trust, Counters Fear, and Promotes Community Safety,” finds that the administration’s deportation policies…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File Nongovernmental groups have sounded the alarm as the European Parliament’s new “Scrutiny Working Group” on funding for nongovernmental groups held its first meeting on November 26. The inquiry is painted as an effort to boost transparency of the use of EU grants by civil society. But its superfluous mandate, narrow focus on nonprofit organizations, and biased composition make it look like a political…
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By Tony Butler, Professor and Program Head, Justice Health Research Program, UNSW Sydney
Emaediong I. Akpanekpo, PhD Candidate, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Lee Knight, Academic Program Director for the Mental Health Practice Program, UNSW Sydney
Peter William Schofield, Conjoint Professor School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
Rhys Mantell, PhD Candidate, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
In April 2024, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared domestic and family violence a “national crisis” calling for proactive responses that “focus on the perpetrators and focus on prevention”.
The issue hasn’t really improved since then.
But a world-first trial from the University of New South Wales and University of Newcastle, which tested whether medicine can reduce violence and…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
An independent inquiry has strongly condemned the politicisation of appointments to government boards despite the government rejecting much of the plan.
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