By Joanna Pozzulo, Chancellor's Professor, Psychology, Carleton University
Most people absorb social media content without questioning it. Switching to active reading is one of the most practical defences against misinformation.
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By Sarah Elizabeth Wolfe, Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Roads University
Philip Steenkamp, President and Vice-Chancellor, Royal Roads University
Universities must develop an intentional, place-based approach to research and teaching that’s organized around a region’s unique and specific problems.
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By Anja Mrhar, Visiting Researcher and PhD student, Karolinska Institutet
Adrián Carballo Casla, Postdoctoral Researcher in Geriatric Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
New study of older adults in Sweden suggests healthier diets may still be linked to lower dementia risk even after early biological changes are detected.
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By Vinita Srivastava, Editorial Director, The Conversation
Are you an experienced storyteller with a passion for centring Indigenous voices, histories and perspectives? Do you want to bring your editorial expertise to a prestigious, flexible residency that pairs public journalism with academic rigour?
The Conversation Canada invites applications for our newly designed Indigenous Affairs Editor-in-Residence.
The Conversation Canada is an established, non-profit digital newsroom in its ninth year of operation. We belong to a proven global network of explanatory journalism sister sites in the United Kingdom, the United…
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By Eric Palkovacs, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny: What is the best approach to maintain urban water quality?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Peter Magyar, Prime Minister of Hungary, delivers a speech in the Hungarian Parliament before the agenda in Budapest, June 15, 2026. © 2026 Balint Szentgallay/NurPhoto via AP (London, June 25, 2026) – The new Hungarian government’s plan to make sweeping changes to key institutions through a rushed 17th amendment to the constitution, risks halting advances to restore the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today. The plans to remove the country’s president and the head of its constitutional court lack due process safeguards.If the 17th Amendment is…
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By Amnesty International
Nearly four months after the U.S. airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, which killed more than 150 people, including 120 children, Amnesty International USA’s National Director for Government Relations & Advocacy, Amanda Klasing, said: “It’s been four months since the deadliest U.S. airstrike against civilians in recent memory, yet we are no closer to getting answers from U.S. authorities about why this happened and who was responsible. What is taking so long? The public […] The post USA: Four months after horrific Minab school airstrike, accountability…
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By Manuel A. Gómez, Professor of Law, Florida International University
One law generally shields foreign governments and companies they own from lawsuits in US courts. Another lets many Cuban cases proceed, according to a new ruling.
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By Krupa Shandilya, Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.
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By Sean Murphy, Director, Center for Story, Shenandoah University
Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.
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