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En matière de JO et de développement durable, il ne faut pas seulement s'intéresser à l'événement en lui-même, mais également aux fédérations sportives qui y participent. kovop/Shutterstock

Durabilité : les fédérations sportives présentes aux JO de Paris 2024 jouent-elles le jeu ?

Au-delà de la durabilité des Jeux de Paris, il faut aussi examiner celle des fédérations sportives qui y participent. C’est ce qu’a entrepris une équipe internationale de chercheurs.
Faran Kaplan’s neighbor set up a GoFundMe page for him that raised over $100,000 after his wife was killed and other relatives injured in an accident. Pete Marovich/The Washington Post via Getty Images

What GoFundMe conceals: The campaigns that fail

Most people are left refreshing the page and coming up empty-handed.
A woman drinks water in front of the ancient Parthenon Temple during a hot, windy day at Acropolis hill in Athens in July 2024. Record-breaking heat waves have become the norm across much of the world as a result of human caused climate change. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A ‘green new deal’ is Canada’s best hope of achieving a just carbon-zero transition

A green new deal is practical, politically possible, and the best chance we have to achieve a just carbon-zero transition in Canada.
Migrant workers at an asparagus farm near Vittoria, Ont., in June 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Despite Ontario workers’ compensation reforms, migrant workers are still being left behind

Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board must ensure all injured migrant workers — past, present and future — are spared systemic discrimination in the wake of its recent apology.
Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt. (Deyohaha:ge Indigenous Knowledge Centre, Six Nations Polytechnic)

Looking for Indigenous history? ‘Shekon Neechie’ website recentres Indigenous perspectives

A website curated by Indigenous historians shares reading lists about Indigenous histories in Turtle Island (North America) related to over 40 topics, as well as a podcast offering oral histories.
Canada women’s national soccer team goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé holds her gold medal from the Tokyo Olympics as she poses for photographs after an announcement in Vancouver on March 16, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

The more medals Canadian athletes win, the fewer Canadians participate in organized sport

With the Paris Olympics and Canada’s Future of Sport Commission both to start soon, this is a timely critique of the Canadian sport system.
Un homme passe devant une personne recroquevillée sur un trottoir à Barrie, en Ontario, en 2023. Les Canadiens ont une vision de plus en plus pessimiste de l’économie et des finances. La Presse canadienne/Christopher Drost

Les Canadiens de plus en plus démunis devant les difficultés économiques et les inégalités croissantes

La perception d’un coût de la vie de plus en plus élevé et d’un Canada de plus en plus inégal crée une tempête parfaite pour une détérioration du sentiment de contrôle dans la vie de tous les jours.
The sun sets over electric pylons along a solar farm near Weifang in eastern China’s Shandong province in March 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Emotions may matter more than facts in shaping individual support for renewable energy, new study shows

Emotions help shape opinion on energy sources. Understanding this can allow us to design better zero-carbon policies.
A man walks past a person huddled on a curb in Barrie, Ont., in 2023. Canadians are growing increasingly pessimistic about the economy and finances. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Drost

Canadians are feeling increasingly powerless amid economic struggles and rising inequality

The perception of a worsening cost of living, combined with seeing Canada as significantly more unequal, is creating a perfect storm for a deteriorating sense of control in everyday life.
The Titan submersible that imploded in the Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2023 while attempting to reach the wreck of the Titanic. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP, File)

Too soon? Titan or Titanic, people always make weird jokes about rich people’s tragedies

Humour plays a role in our collective memory of historical events, especially disasters. Public reactions to the Titan’s implosion were reminiscent of comments that followed the sinking of the Titanic.
A Village Festival, With a Theatrical Performance and a Procession in Honour of St Hubert and St Anthony. Brueghel, Pieter, the younger (c.1564-1637/8). The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

In 1614, a mother of eight put on a play about her cheating neighbour. The scandalous story changes what we know about women in theatre

Only a handful of plays written by women in the early modern period have survived. But the accounts of Alice Mustian’s raunchy stage show shed light on a surprising playwright and impresario.
A March 1593 letter from England’s Queen Elizabeth I to King James VI of Scotland, where she acknowledges his “cumber [i.e., trouble] to read such scribbed lines.” (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Think tech killed penmanship? Messy handwriting was a problem centuries before smartphones

While the rise of smartphones and typing impacts handwriting, bad penmanship is far from a new phenomenon. People have struggled to read each other’s handwriting for centuries.
Moving away from intensive farming practices comes with many benefits. Nikada

Farming with a mixture of crops, animals and trees is better for the environment and for people – evidence from Ghana and Malawi

Transitions to diversified farming systems in Africa will require financial support. But barriers can be overcome.
Thousands pray at the funeral service for the four victims of the deadly vehicle attack on members of the Canadian Muslim community in London, Ont., in June 2021. The man orginally charged with murder in the case had the charges upgraded to terrorism and was convicted. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Is Canada finally taking far-right extremism seriously? Latest arrests are a positive sign

Historically, Canadian police have disproportionately targeted Muslim communities in counter-terrorism efforts, while far-right extremists received comparatively scant scrutiny. Is that changing?

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