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Ryan Gillespie discusses some of lively and public debates surrounding human organ supply and asks what kind of society we truly want.
March 16, 2021
Ryan Gillespie discusses some of lively and public debates surrounding human organ supply and asks what kind of society we truly want.
March 16, 2021
In a new three-part blog series, Marcel Danesi explores what semiotics is all about, why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature, and how semiotics is applied today.
March 10, 2021
Mark Gamsa gives us a behind-the-scenes look into his new book and tells us the personal story of Baron Roger Budberg, a physician who, being neither Russian nor Chinese, nevertheless stood at the very centre of the cross-cultural divide in Harbin.
March 5, 2021
Donald B. Smith is one of Canada’s most renowned historians, having written extensively on Aboriginal Canada, Quebec, and the history of Calgary and Southern Alberta. Donald discusses what we can expect from his final book, which covers fresh ground in the history of settler-Indigenous relations.
February 17, 2021
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
As temperatures plummet this week across Canada, we’re sharing an excerpt from Seasonal Sociology, which focuses on the city of Edmonton and their efforts to embrace and celebrate winter.
February 8, 2021
Michael Sherberg, editor of The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective, offers his perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.
February 4, 2021
Heather Whiteside brings us up-to-date with the political economy in the Canadian context, and discusses what we can expect from her edited book, Canadian Political Economy
January 29, 2021
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we commemorate the tragedy that occurred during the Second World War and honour the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, as well as the millions of other victims of Nazism.
January 27, 2021
rosalind hampton discusses her book, Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University, which provides a historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centered on the experiences of Black students at McGill University.
January 25, 2021