To increase awareness for World Mental Health Day, United for Global Mental Health curated The Museum of Lost and Found Potential. On display in London, UK, their goal was to create empathy, action

When I first won my Canada Research Chair (CRC) in 2004, I began to explore how the notions of place, scale, limits and diversity influenced sustainable community development. This article on the

A new University of Victoria study on the consumption of microplastics revealed that humans consume between 70,000 and 121,000 particles per year. Microplastics are just under 5 millimetres in

Despite building 400,000 new homes over the past 20 years, Toronto and Vancouver continue to top international rankings of unaffordable cities. As housing becomes increasingly “hyper-commodified”

In response to the #MeToo campaign, Gilette tackled toxic masculinity, bullying, and harassment in their ad released back in January. The video is a call to men to hold each other to a higher standard

Before Jane Goodall there was Anne Innis Dagg. Her research on giraffe’s was groundbreaking and so was her fight for women’s equality in science. In 1956, she made her first trip to South Africa to

Extinction Rebellion, a UK-based activist group, is taking London by storm this week with a series of coordinated protests that have brought the city to near gridlock. Their non-violent protests are f

While economic growth has proven to be beneficial, especially in high-income countries, when pursued indefinitely it carries a burden. As it becomes harder to reach, economies are following a more

After discovering that raw sewage was illegally flowing into the LeHave River right outside her Nova Scotia home, Stella Bowles was determined to put a stop to it. She was only 11 in 2015 but learned

Sudanese-American poet and activist, Emtithal Mahmoud, expresses "the real emotions behind the headlines" according to this Guardian article. She was born in Darfur and moved to Yemen before settling