Category: Analysis
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How five countries are adapting to the climate crisis
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Susannah Fisher, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL People travel by boat to shop along flooded streets in the district of Satkhira, in southern Bangladesh, after months of heavy rain. DFID / Rafiqur Rahman Raqu, CC BY-NC-ND Countries around the world are…
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Arrest of top whistleblower shows extent of Israeli impunity over torture of Palestinian detainees
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Merav Amir, Reader of Human Geography, Queen’s University Belfast Israel’s top military prosecutor, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, was arrested recently in a case which further reveals the extent of mistreatment of Palestinian detainees and the impunity enjoyed by Israeli security forces. The arrest of Tomer-Yerushalmi, who was, until…
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What autistic people – and those with ADHD and dyslexia – really think about the word ‘neurodiversity’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aimee Grant, Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University shutterstock Vitalii Vodolazskyi/Shutterstock The term “neurodiversity” is still relatively new. Even now, there’s no firm agreement among experts about what it should include. Does it refer only to neurodevelopmental differences such…
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BBC resignations over Trump scandal show the pressures on public broadcasters – and why they must resist them
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne The resignations of BBC Director-General Tim Davie and CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness over dishonest editing of a speech in 2021 by US President Donald Trump raise several disturbing questions. These…
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The science of weight loss – and why your brain is wired to keep you fat
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Valdemar Brimnes Ingemann Johansen, PhD Fellow in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen When you lose weight, your body reacts as if it were a threat to survival. pexels/pavel danilyuk, CC BY For decades, we’ve been told that weight loss is a…
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The Māori ward vote in New Zealand contains important lessons for Canada
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Karen Bird, Professor of Political Science, McMaster University Canadians have often looked to Aotearoa New Zealand as an established model for electoral inclusion of Indigenous voices. But local elections recently held in New Zealand offer an important cautionary tale for Canada, where treaty rights remain contested…
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New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape reading
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Victor Kuperman, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For newcomers to a country, success often depends on learning to read fluently in a new language. In fact, language…
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How two Canadian war amputees hiked 2,000 kilometres and shaped disability rights activism
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Eric Story, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of History, Western University After the First World War, veterans who had lost limbs formed fraternal associations such as the Amputation Club in Vancouver, B.C., seen here in 1918, to advocate for disabled veterans. (Stuart Thomson Fonds/ City of Vancouver Archives)…
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Budget 2025 ignores the looming succession crisis facing Canada’s family businesses
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Katrina Barclay, Executive Manager, Telfer Family Enterprise Legacy Institute (FELI), L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Like previous federal budgets, the recently released Budget 2025 fails to acknowledge a pressing generational shift for Canada’s economy: the succession crisis facing most Canadian family-owned businesses. Over the next decade, 60…
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How we’re tracking avian flu’s toll on wildlife across North America
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Damien Joly, CEO, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, University of Saskatchewan The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus has been detected in 41 at-risk species, including the snowy owl. The snowy owl was recently recommended for listing under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. (Jordi Segers/CWHC), CC BY-NC Since…