Youth

Online harms need a gender-based analysis

Online harms need a gender-based analysis

More female peacekeepers essential to protect children in conflict zones

Closeup of an iphone with a home screen full of social-media apps. The person holding it has dark brown chipped nail polish and faded jeans with a smiley face drawn on the denim, along with a large rip in the knee.

The Online Harms Act should target social media’s greatest harm

Three elementary-age girls sitting at desks are smiling with their hands up to ask a question. The room is bright with tall windows.

Chronic student absenteeism will require serious investment

Picking a university or college? Better trust your gut

A colourful long wall is made up of many black-framed squares showing images of people and things.

The missing voices at AI conferences

Le Canada a besoin d’un programme national de repas à l’école.

A national school food program would do more than feed students

Colourful illustration of five hands each holding a puzzle piece that together make up a red heart in the middle of the drawing. The hands are connected to arms coming from five directions. Each arm is clothed in a different patterned sleeve. The sleeves are dark blue, pink, white or forest green.

Canadians are becoming less generous. But not all is lost

A closeup of a computer screen on an unidentified pornography site.

Will Bill S-210 prevent minors from accessing pornography?

History isn’t repeating itself on LGBTQ rights. That is concerning.

What Quebec’s cannabis strategy shows

A still-hazy picture of cannabis after five years of legalization

An adolescent girl sits cross-legged on a sofa next to a window with sheer white curtains. She’s downcast, leaning forward with one hand on her forehead and her elbow on her leg. She’s wearing jeans and a pastel-purple hoodie that covers her head.

Legal spanking of children has to stop

Using simulations to teach civics in high school could improve voter turnout

Two rows of children writing at desks in a classroom with large windows behind them.

The erosion of learning and Nova Scotia’s lacklustre response

Five adolescent girls are sitting on a soccer field, huddled around a young woman who is telling them something while holding a pen in her hand and pointing it at the girls. The girls are wearing red and white team shorts and loose tops.

Unintended consequences of the “Rule of Two” in the name of safe sport

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