Earth Day: An Excerpt from “Understanding Climate Change”
To celebrate Earth Day, we’re sharing an excerpt from
June 17, 2021
Tag: politics
How Activists Put a Human Face on Climate Change
Climate change was once understood as solely an environmental issue. Now a growing class of activists claim climate change to be a gender, equity, labour, Indigenous rights, faith, and health issue. Jen Iris Allan, author of The New Climate Activism explores these issues in more detail.
February 10, 2021
Essential Books for Introduction to Political Science Courses
We’re highlighting a few of the newest texts available for courses in Introduction to Political Science and Canadian Politics, as well as mentioning a few forthcoming titles that are dropping later this spring.
January 21, 2021
Science Writing in a Time of Crisis
Mireille F. Ghoussoub holds a PhD in materials chemistry from the University of Toronto and is the co-author of The Story of CO2. In this post, Mireille highlights why the need for honest and effective science communication has never been greater in the fight against climate change.
November 12, 2020
Twenty Years of Digital Politics in Canada
Tamara A. Small and Harold J. Jansen discuss their love of digital politics and examine some of the changes that have taken place in Canadian politics over the last twenty years.
November 2, 2020
What’s Missing in the New Federal Climate-Change Plan?
Douglas Macdonald examines what impact the Thorne speech might have on Canada’s climate and energy policies going forward.
October 15, 2020
SHIFTing the Mindset During COVID-19: Part 8 “Leadership”
In the final installment of her blog series, “SHIFTing the Mindset During COVID-19,” Eileen Brown discusses the value of leadership, and why it can make or break an organization’s ability to improve execution.
May 28, 2020
SHIFTing the Mindset During COVID-19: Part 5 “Shifting Alignment to Generate Momentum”
It’s part 5 of our blog series “SHIFTing the Mindset During COVID-19.” This week, Eileen Brown looks at the second “shift” in the Shift-to-Execute framework that can improve execution during COVID-19.
May 7, 2020
Canada at the Polls 2019: A New Mandate?
Authors of the forthcoming Absent Mandate discuss the upcoming Canadian federal election: what we can expect to see? Has anything really changed since elections back in 1965? And are Canadian electoral politics now following a new, or even unfamiliar, path?
July 17, 2019
The Right Side of History: The Political Urgency Needed in Addressing Climate Change
Author Peter Stoett writes about his attendance at the Planetary Security Conference in the Netherlands and why these conferences reflect the political urgency currently attached to climate change.
May 15, 2019