When It Comes to White Supremacy, Historians Can’t Stand on the Sidelines
Scholars must tell the truth about our past—and that doesn’t stop with Confederation
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How Do I Talk to My Five-Year-Old about White Supremacy?
We’re supposed to explain the world to our children—but lately that’s been harder than ever
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Demanding Kinder Classrooms Doesn’t Make You a Snowflake
Students don’t need to get better at dealing with the real world—professors do
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How Police Cracked Canada’s Largest Child Pornography Ring
Inside the year-long effort to take down a criminal organization hiding in plain sight
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How a White Mom Teaches Her Black Son To Stay Alive in America
Educating my son about hatred has taught us both painful lessons about racism
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Why You Can’t Afford an Apartment in Canada’s Biggest Cities
As housing prices soar, a chronic shortage of rental units is creating a new market squeeze
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Shedding Our False Sense of Virtue
We consider ourselves immune to the type of civil unrest that erupted in the US in the 1960s. But could Indigenous frustration today be reaching the same boiling point?
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Can Police Help Solve the Opioid Epidemic?
In the US, some police departments are sending people with addiction to rehab rather than arresting them. But it could be doing more harm than good
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The Unbearable Whiteness of CanLit
Black writers are not marginal to our literature; they are our literature. So why aren’t they being taught?
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The Canadian Narrative about Slavery Is Wrong
Casting ourselves as the “saviours” of African American fugitives fits neatly into our national identity. But this country, too, was founded on exploitation
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