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The humanities and social sciences play a vital role in our response to the recent attacks in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Ottawa
After the terrible attacks last week in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Ottawa, the nation’s capital is slowly but surely returning to regularly scheduled activities. Parliament has re-opened to the public, municipal elections were held yesterday, schools...
The gift of life
Terry Soleas "Blood can bring out the best of human virtues, our basest urges and some of the worst in humanity.” Lawrence Hill, a celebrated and acclaimed Canadian author was at Congress on Thursday, May 29 to deliver one of his Massey Series of...
Mayors for a better Canada
Jessica Dixon True to my age, a cynical perspective regarding the effectiveness of Canada’s democratic structure flows through my veins. With this in mind, I attended American Professor, Benjamin Barber’s presentation (and the following panel) about...
A new imagination - Catherine Dauvergne and the new politics of immigration
Samara Bissonnette In an installment of the Big Thinking series for Congress 2014, Catherine Dauvergne delivered one of her newest big ideas yesterday at Brock University in a presentation titled " The End of Settler Societies and the New Politics of...
David Plotz – Digital journalism: From scourge to trend-setter
Doug Junke For David Plotz, the advent of digital journalism has been the best of times and the worst of times, to borrow from Charles Dickens. Slate editor Plotz addressed Tuesday’s Congress 2014 Big Thinking crowd of 125 at Brock University with...
Helping seniors in the suburbs
Visit Innovation.ca for more stories about humanities and social science research supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). By funding state-of-the-art research infrastructure in all disciplines and across the full spectrum of research...
Lyse Doucet - Working in a savage reality
Doug Junke Lyse Doucet, veteran BBC reporter, presenter and chief international correspondent has seen man at his worst. It wasn’t pretty. She shared a tiny slice of that with the Congress 2014 Big Thinking audience Saturday afternoon. It wasn’t for...
Promises fulfilled
Looking at the legacy of thousands of black slaves who fled to Canada in the 1800s Laura Czekaj , Canada Foundation for Innovation Visit Innovation.ca for more stories about humanities and social science research supported by the Canada Foundation...
Adrien Arcand, Ernst Zundel and anti-Semitism
By Daniel Drolet A new book on Canadian journalist Adrien Arcand details his involvement in the rise of Holocaust deniers around the world. In fact, says author Hughes Théorêt , Arcand was a mentor to Ernst Zundel, a prominent German-Canadian...