By Kean Birch Big Tech was in the policy spotlight again recently with another U.S. Congressional hearing on Oct. 1, this time focused on “Proposals to Strengthen the Antitrust Laws and Restore Competition Online.” The hearing was the culmination of a long Congressional investigation into Big Tech — defined as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google/Alphabet, and […]
By Dayna Nadine Scott, Deborah Cowen, and David Peerla The infrastructure crises that have plagued Neskantaga First Nation for decades have reached a terrifying breaking point. On Oct. 21, the northern Anishinaabe community’s ailing water systems once again failed completely, and this time in the context of the global coronavirus pandemic. With no running water flowing […]
Where are LGBTQ2S households living in the suburbs of Canada’s three largest metropolitan areas? How are suburban LGBTQ2S residents served by community, municipal and NGO services? Under what social and neighbourhood conditions do diverse LGBTQ2S populations live in suburbia, and how does queer sexuality inform their place-making practices? These are the questions that Professor Alison […]
Ottawa, 14 January 2021—The Auditor General of Canada, Karen Hogan, has appointed Jerry V. DeMarco (MES '04) to join her executive team as Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD). Mr. DeMarco will officially step into his new role with the Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG) on 1 February 2021. Mr. DeMarco […]
In December, North Kawartha Township's only grocery store burned down — so locals stepped up By Josh Sherman - Published on Jan 20, 2021 on tvo.org These days, Leeanne Vogt’s grocery-shopping routine begins with a phone call, sometimes days before she needs to go to the store. She calls non-profit Community Care Peterborough’s satellite office in […]
Personal connections Well over a century later, visual artist Andil Gosine reimagined the postcards in his photo series "Cane Portraiture." Gosine lived in Trinidad until he was 14 and is a descendent of Indo-Trinidadian indentured workers. For the series, Gosine invited Caribbeans who had migrated to New York to pose against a backdrop of sugarcane […]
Research on the impacts of COVID-19 on migrant workers in the seafood supply chain is the focus of a new article published in Maritime Studies last month. Peter Vandergeest, Philip F. Kelly, Peter Duker and Mallory MacDonnell (Geography) and their co-researchers in the University of Ottawa and the United States are members of Work at Sea, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council […]
By Joanna PachnerSpecial to the Star In 2018, Toronto’s scrappy chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, ran for mayor on a platform of creating a more affordable, sustainable, livable city — one experienced at “the scale of a neighbourhood,” as she puts it. Last year, the pandemic largely confined us to that scale, whether we liked it or […]
Looking for some interesting reads? Check out these 2020 articles by EUC experts featured on The Conversation. #1 Feb. 17, 2020 – Outbreaks like coronavirus start in and spread from the edges of cities – S. Harris Ali, Roger Keil, Creighton Connolly #2 Nov. 18, 2020 - Why Doug Ford is stumbling during COVID-19’s second wave […]
Vice-President Research & Innovation Amir Asif announces the appointment of Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Professor Jennifer Hyndman as associate vice-president research (AVP), effective Jan. 1, 2021. Hyndman is former director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University where she is resident scholar. Prior to the inauguration of EUC, Hyndman was a professor in Liberal […]