Established in 1841 and one of Canada’s oldest degree-granting institutions, Queen’s today is a mid-sized university that provides a transformative student learning experience within a research-intensive environment A member of the prestigious U15 group of research-intensive Canadian universities, Queen’s conducts leading-edge research in areas of critical concern. Queen’s is also a member of the Matariki Network, an international group of research-intensive universities with a strong shared commitment to the undergraduate and graduate student learning experience.
La ministre Ginette Petitpas Taylor, responsable de la Loi sur les langues officielles s'adresse à la Chambre des communes le 2 juin 2023.
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La nouvelle loi sur les langues officielles serait-elle injuste ? Trois experts constitutionnels affirment que ceux qui l’allèguent déforment les réalités canadiennes.
Le traitement des troubles mentaux par la psilocybine est prometteur, mais un optimisme prudent s’impose pendant l’étude de dosages sécuritaires.
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Les substances psychédéliques peuvent-elles aider à guérir les troubles de l’alimentation ? Les résultats sont prometteurs, mais les patients et les médecins doivent faire preuve de prudence jusqu’à ce que des recherches supplémentaires et approfondies soient menées.
Many companies have increasingly turned to social media channels — including X — to burnish their ESG credentials.
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For many firms, ESG-related social media activity appears to be more about managing their public image than signaling genuine environmental commitment.
All patients should have access to a primary care team with a minimum composition of a family physician and/or nurse practitioner, dietitian, nurse, occupational therapist, pharmacist, physiotherapist and social worker.
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A newly created Primary Care Action Team has a lofty goal: to ensure all Ontarians have access to primary health care within five years. Here are five principals to consider to help achieve it.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation as Liberal leader and prime minister outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Jan. 6, 2025.
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Justin Trudeau has resigned, but the Liberal Party faces an uphill battle heading into a federal election year. Here are some lessons from the Roman Empire on leadership and governance.
23andMe’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in April 2018. Since its founding in 2006, 23andMe has sold over 12 million testing kits globally.
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As 23andMe struggles financially, it’s a good time to reconsider issues on privacy, use, and commercialization of genetic information.
It is in everyone’s interest that our postsecondary institutions start working now to limit the harms of post-COVID condition on students.
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Postsecondary students are particularly vulnerable to repeated COVID-19 infections, putting them at risk for post-COVID condition, or long COVID. Campuses can take action to protect them.
‘TV Garden,’ seen at the National Gallery Singapore, shows plants alongside dozens of TV monitors with video featuring performers from all around the world.
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South Korean artist Nam June Paik showed new ways to understand the relationship between nature and technology, including in his 1974 pioneering work ‘TV Garden.’
Demonstrators gather in front of a downtown Toronto hotel as the Giller Award ceremony was about to begin, holding banners, in Toronto, Nov. 18, 2024.
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The controversy is about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict interfering with the world of Canadian letters, but also reveals antagonistic ideas about literature’s social role.
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. The court is hearing the case R v. Kloubakov of the constitutionality of Canada’s prostitution laws.
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A case before the Supreme Court of Canada could determine the constitutionality of the country’s prostitution law and statutes that criminalize third parties who benefit financially from the sex trade.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (centre), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller (left) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Paul Chiang hold a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 24, 2024.
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The broader societal fallout of anti-immigrant discourse is the further normalization of everyday hate and animosity toward migrants, especially those who are racialized.
Educators can help kids understand the difference between using power negatively and positively, and encourage its positive use to build respectful environments.
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Being bullied because of some aspect of who a person is — known as identity-based or bias-based bullying — is extremely harmful to kids’ sense of belonging at school.
An elephant wades through flood waters to help bring relief supplies to villagers in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand on Oct. 6, 2024.
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While poorer nations face more severe climate impacts, their ‘social cost of carbon’ remains disproportionately low, reflecting deeper economic inequities that complicate global climate action.
The Réseau express métropolitain train on a test run from downtown Montréal on July 19, 2023.
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The disruptions caused by technology, the pandemic and climate change are reshaping how people and goods move in cities.
Trabajadores de emergencia retiran los escombros en el lugar de un ataque aéreo israelí en Beirut, Líbano, el 22 de septiembre de 2024.
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El violento conflicto entre Hezbolá e Israel se ha intensificado en los últimos días. La población civil lidia con la incertidumbre y el estrés que ha provocado la guerra.
Emergency workers clear the rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 22, 2024.
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The increasing attacks and fiery rhetoric in the Israel-Hezbollah confrontation are spreading terror among civilian populations already grappling with the uncertainty and stress the war has wrought.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 17, 2024.
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Liberal strategists plan to increase the prime minister’s exposure, thrusting the most unpopular politician in the country right in the face of Canadians. Here’s why it isn’t likely to work.
Small-scale mining in Ghana supports over 6 million livelihoods.
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Several of Ghana’s water bodies and forests have been destroyed by illegal small-scale mining.
Surmonter les disparités sociétales pour parvenir à l'égalité des chances en matière de leadership est un défi, mais les organisations peuvent prendre des mesures tangibles pour favoriser le potentiel de leadership dans l'ensemble du spectre socio-économique.
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De nouvelles recherches suggèrent que l’enfance et l’adolescence jouent un rôle clé dans la façon dont se développe le leadership.
Canada needs to reform its policy on internationally trained doctors to help ease the health-care crisis and, more broadly, promote economic growth and more equitable labour standards.
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Mobility restrictions imposed on internationally trained physicians in Canada could be aggravating the health-care crisis intensifying an ongoing doctor shortage.