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All of this year’s Big Thinking events consider how the arts function as a platform to engage with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Organizers were inspired by three big questions: Who speaks for whom? Whose stories get told? And...

Reflections on the Congress 2018 Big Thinking lecture entitled Thinking about war with Margaret MacMillan, C.C. organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Regina. In a country like ours, it can be easy to...

It was January 1996, and I was standing on a gangway in a Cuban cement factory. There was no safety railing between me and four massive cylinders crushing limestone some five meters below. The air glittered with dust, and the noise was deafening. At...

Blogue invité par Robyn Dugas, Spécialiste de contenu, Mitacs Wendy Ortega Pineda est déterminée à contribuer à la création d’un monde plus équitable. Étudiante en droit à l’Universidad Autónoma de Baja California du Mexique, Wendy a beaucoup appris...

This is a Congress 2018 blog about event #1235. Click here to find out more about it. In recent weeks, the governments of the U.K., Canada, the U.S. and other Western countries have expelled dozens of Russian diplomats from their capital cities. This...

Otto Von Bismark once famously remarked that: “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.” I respectfully disagree. I first decided to write On the Side of the Angels: Canada and the United Nations Commission on...