The Canadian population is aging, bringing with it an increasing number of social and economic challenges, including an aging workforce. Author Ellie Berger discusses some first-hand accounts of older workers in Canada and provides suggestions for employers to help reduce ageism in their organizations.
June 17, 2021
Teaching Social Work: Reflections on Pedagogy and Practice editors Rick Csiernik and Susan Hillock tell us more about their edited volume and the framework they have created for social work educators.
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Marko Dumančić discusses his new book, Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties, and examines some of the period’s most controversial movies.
Michael Lee details the main instigators behind the global financial crises we’ve seen in the last two hundred years and looks at what lessons we can learn from them.
April 7, 2021
We invited Emily Robins Sharpe, author of Mosaic Fictions to discuss her book which examines Canadian Spanish Civil War literature and reveals texts composed between the war’s outbreak and the present.
March 31, 2021
In the third and final installment of a three-part blog series on semiotics, Marcel Danesi looks at how semiotics is applied today.
March 26, 2021
Martyn Lyons shares what a day in the life of a researcher looks like as he discusses some of the meticulous archival research that went his new book, The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices.
March 25, 2021
The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and the starting point for many popular treks to Machu Picchu. Karoline Guelke looks at the impact COVID-19 has had on the region.
March 23, 2021
In the second installment of a three-part blog series on semiotics, Marcel Danesi explores the question, “what is meaning?” A word with many connotations, he investigates how meaning is created and how it is communicated.
March 19, 2021