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Congress 2021 blog edition The Canadian Communication Association’s “How to Make Your Technology Anti-Racist” open event webcast featured Charlton Mcllwain, Professor, Media, Culture, and Communications at NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology...

Congress 2021 blog edition Positioning yourself as the best possible candidate for a job opening is a difficult but important skill to master. In an insightful lecture hosted by Mitacs, Catherine Maybrey, Career Coach at CM Coaching Services, offers...

Congress 2021 blog edition Although – hopefully – most of us do not consciously or intentionally work to perpetuate inequality in the world, odds are that most of us at least sometimes say or do things that preclude diversity and exclude the ‘other.’...

Congress 2021 blog edition Many of you are likely familiar with the difficulties of editing your own writing. When reading over your own work, your brain has a tendency to make sense of what you think is on the page, rather than what is actually...

Congress 2021 blog edition Today’s session “Examining Anti-Racist and Decolonial Possibilities in the Contemporary University” delivered a variety of perspectives from academics around the globe, on whether possibilities to decolonize contemporary...

Congress 2021 blog edition “We have an underutilization of talent in Canada; we produce exceptional [social science and humanities] graduates, but don’t do a great job hiring them,” said Gail Bowkett, member of The/La Collaborative and panellist in...

Congress 2021 blog edition Being “not-racist” is not enough to eradicate racism, social inequities and injustices. As Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Big Thinking discussion pressed upon attendees: for radical change we must be antiracist...in our thoughts...

Congress 2021 blog edition The Canadian Sociological Association’s “Anti-Asian Racism during the COVID-19 Pandemic” open event webcast explored the rapid and ferocious rise in racism fueled by the spread of COVID-19 around the globe. The panel...