By Saidia Ali, Environmental Scientist, PhD Candidate, Toronto Metropolitan University
The world is undergoing rapid electronification and digital transformation, reshaping how we live. Many of us have numerous electronic devices around us at all times, from smartphones and watches to our home appliances and cars.
A sharp increase in e-waste has accompanied the surge in electronic equipment. In 2022, 62 million tons of e-waste was produced globally.
Canada’s e-waste tripled…
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By Ala Mokhtar, Assistant Professor in Accounting, McMaster University
When clients snap at, dismiss or belittle auditors, it doesn’t just sting — it can wear away at audit quality. Understanding and addressing this can improve financial reporting.
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By Emma Hsiaowen Chen, PhD Candidate in Health & Exercise Science, Concordia University
Exercise can help reduce the risk of falls — a major cause of injuries in older adults — but only four per cent of older Canadian women complete 30 minutes of daily physical activity. As a PhD candidate in health and exercise science at Concordia University, I am interested in developing fun and accessible balance-training programs using…
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By Jared Wesley, Professor, Political Science, University of Alberta
Alex Marland, Professor, Political Science, Acadia University
Mireille Lalancette, Professor, Département de lettres et communication sociale, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR)
Message discipline is an increasing feature of Canadian politics. Canadians across the country should pay attention to what just happened in Alberta, where teachers were ordered back to work.
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By Andrew Dix, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
When a house mysteriously explodes in the sleepy suburbs of south Oxford and a child goes missing in the aftermath, concerned neighbour Sarah Trafford is driven to seek the truth. As an art conservator, Trafford is way out of her depth, so she enlists the help of a private investigator, Zoë Boehm. However, the pair end up in a plot far more serious than Boehm’s usual work of checking credit ratings and tracking adulterous husbands.
This is the story of Down Cemetery Road (2003), the debut novel of writer Mick…
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By Eleanor Dobson, Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham
November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun’s mummified remains. What followed wasn’t scientific triumph – it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute force, Howard Carter’s team decapitated the pharaoh, severed his limbs and dismembered his torso. Then they covered it up.
Tutankhamun’s tomb was first discovered in the Valley of the Kings by a team of mostly Egyptian excavators led by Howard Carter in November 1922. However, it took several years for the excavators to clear and catalogue the tomb’s antechamber – the first part of what would become…
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By Alison Hess, Lecturer in Museum and Gallery Studies, University of Westminster
Around 70-90% of museum collections around the world are kept in storage . Often housed in buildings far away from their public institution, they represent a picture of hidden cultural and historical resources.
Remote storage often presents logistical and cost challenges to enabling public access to collections, and it remains an area of museum work that is easy…
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By Matthew Allen, Lecturer in Economics, Salford Business School, University of Salford
US president Donald Trump’s 15% baseline tariffs on EU imports may read like a throwback to old-school protectionism, designed to safeguard American jobs and manufacturing. But in today’s globalised and digitally driven economy, the risk isn’t just to steel or car factories, it’s to innovation itself.
The world’s most advanced technologies rely on complex, deeply integrated supply chains. Evidence from 2023 shows that even temporary US tariff shocks…
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By Hala Al-Hamawi, PhD Candidate, Climate Finance, Nottingham Trent University
The region faces some of most acute challenges, including rising temperatures, water scarcity and conflict. Yet it receives such a small share of climate finance.
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By William Plowright, Assistant Professor in International Security, Durham University
A few years ago, you might have balked if someone told you that the US president would be photographed in the White House shaking hands with a man who was a former member of al-Qaeda, an insurgent against US forces in Iraq, and had led one of the largest Syrian Islamist armed groups.
But that’s exactly what happened when Donald Trump welcomed his Syrian counterpart, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to Washington on November 10. Al-Sharaa became…
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