Ontario must seize the promise of Canada-wide early learning and child-care funding before it becomes another missed opportunity.
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Reforms to ensure student unions preserve their autonomy, while maintaining high standards of democracy, can happen by amending legislation governing non-profits.
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In Ontario and elsewhere, we still need reforms that give decision-makers the power to bring robust democratic oversight to EdTech in schools.
A newly created Primary Care Action Team has a lofty goal: to ensure all Ontarians have access to primary health care within five years. Here are five principals to consider to help achieve it.
Eliminating interprovincial trade barriers could result in countless benefits for Canadians and reduce Canada’s over-reliance on the American market as Donald Trump threatens tariffs.
Interviews with academic contract workers shed light on how they make emotional sense out of their precarious jobs and seek to convey authority.
For more than two centuries, U.S. presidential politics and presidential lives have found various pathways through and beyond despair, affecting Americans of all political stripes.
Science-based insights can help dial down parents’ anxiety by reminding them to let go of what they can’t control and focus on what matters most.
A cultural studies scholar says Netflix’s removal of their ‘Palestinian Stories’ section, along with about 20 films, is more than a simple business decision: it’s instead an act of cultural erasure.
A B.C. judge’s injunction blocking a MAiD case has been denounced by supporters of broad access to medical assistance in dying. But judicial oversight over MAiD practice is essential.
As cardiovascular disease continues to affect millions worldwide, adapting heart health education to reflect cultural realities is a practical, patient-centred strategy for improving health outcomes.
Canada’s biodiversity protection goals paint it as a world-leader in conservation. However, only its actions will reveal the substance behind these words.
The proposed use of the notwithstanding clause to clear homeless encampments would add unhoused people to a growing list of those whose human rights have been recently curbed by the clause.
When it comes to equitable and sustainable infrastructure, we can learn a lot from beaver dams — according to both traditional Indigenous oral history as well as NASA researchers.
Former youth in care deserve equitable educational opportunities. Better longitudinal data is needed around how youth and adults successfully transition to and complete post-secondary education.
Canadians have a distorted view of others’ financial well-being compared to their neighbours across the border.
Canadians are told that they’re free to use the products of a company that has been publicly shamed and accused of representing a serious national security threat. What should the public take away?
A new sports centre could bring together diverse groups, foster stronger social ties, encourage collaboration, and enhance mutual understanding and respect among Torontonians.
Health-care workers have a direct impact in areas of conflict due to their ability to provide care — and bear direct witness to atrocities. In Gaza, Canada and beyond, they must be heeded.
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Assistant professor, Education, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) and Senior Policy Fellow at the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Affiliate Scientist, KITE Research Institute, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
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PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Toronto
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Adjunct professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Toronto
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Kerry McCuaig is a Friend of The Conversation.
Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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PhD Student, Sociology, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
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Emeritus Professor of History, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Professor of Health Law and Policy, University of Toronto
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Professor of International Business, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
