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This blog post marks the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17. For more information about this day, go here . Over the past 40 years poverty in Canada has become increasingly complex, racialized and often...

Hamilton is an iconic city in Canada. For generations, it has been the quintessential factory town, a status confirmed by the view of fire-spewing, smoke-belching Dark Satanic Mills from the Burlington Skyway on the road to Niagara Falls. I was not...

Pour continuer à prospérer au XXI e siècle, le Canada doit être proactif et réfléchir collectivement à ses possibilités d’avenir afin d’être en mesure d’anticiper ses besoins comme société et en matière de connaissances, ainsi que les enjeux auxquels...

What world can we imagine in 20, 30, even 50 years in the future? How rapid will technology advance and how do we develop policy to match the speed of development? How many times will my job description change? What do we do when machine intelligence...

Immigration and multiculturalism are important aspects of North American society. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are welcomed by Canada and the United States every year. This Big Thinking panel at Congress 2015 examined integration policies as...

The On the Move Partnership is partnering with CBC Ideas and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to present: “ On the Move: Temporary Foreign Worker Policy in Canada ,” a panel discussion followed by an audience Q&A. A 7-year, SSHRC...

In a recent BBN interview , Kevin O`Leary offered unsubstantiated commentary about liberal arts degrees, and History degrees in particular. He stated: “…stop going for liberal arts degrees because it is useless”; “come out with a History degree, you...