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Gendered messaging

Gendered messaging

Performing and pushing back on diet culture: Exploring gendered messaging on Instagram Gendered messaging is a means through which ideas about power, norms, expectations, categories, behaviours, and practices of gender are presented, disseminated and reproduced across culture by Sarah Rotz With the rise of social media, hashtags have become key tools of cultural messaging, and

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Ontario's deepening hydro mess

Ontario's deepening hydro mess

by Mark Winfield Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives went into the 2018 Ontario election campaign promising, among other things, to fix the province’s ‘hydro mess.’    In practice fixing the hydro 'mess' turned out to be a lot more complicated than it sounded. In the end, the first Ford government did little other than double down on

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Labour shortages a long-term problem at border crossings

Labour shortages a long-term problem at border crossings

by Steven Tufts Airport workers are on the front lines dealing with irate passengers experiencing flight delays. The pandemic travel restrictions and testing regimes put in place were manageable when air travel was a trickle, but passenger traffic has increased significantly in recent months. The result is slow processing times at border and security checkpoints

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Assessing the Holocene paleoenvironmental history of Lake Scugog

Assessing the Holocene paleoenvironmental history of Lake Scugog

by Randelle Adano Lake Scugog is a large, shallow reservoir in southern Ontario that has faced multiple stressors like climate change, eutrophication, and invasive species over the post-industrial period. The arrival of the first, early settlers in ~1700 has brought significant infrastructure development in the area, most notably the building of the Lindsay Dam in

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Understanding the historical, cultural, and political relevance of Indigenous Treaty Rights

Understanding the historical, cultural, and political relevance of Indigenous Treaty Rights

by Trevor Doe This summer I was honoured to be one of four undergraduate students within the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change to receive an inaugural EUC Undergraduate Research Award (EUCURA). This award allowed me to work directly with Professor Martha Stiegman on her “Polishing the Chain: Treaty Relations in Toronto” seminar series, as

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Quantifying boreal fire boundary gradients

Quantifying boreal fire boundary gradients

by Madison Downer-Bartholomew Forest fires are a frequent and natural disturbance within the boreal forest. The diversity of the boreal is largely the result of these fires that are varied in frequency, intensity, size, shape, and season. Fire behavior in the boreal varies from intense crown fires to slow moving ground fires, depending on factors

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Cormorant sourcing of anthropogenic nest material in Tommy Thompson Park

Cormorant sourcing of anthropogenic nest material in Tommy Thompson Park

by Ashraf Hutchcraft Learning that I was selected for one of EUC's Undergraduate Research Awards (EUCURA) to work with Professor Gail Fraser on research of cormorants was a welcome surprise!  I went into this project with no previous experience in field work, and an expectation of what it would be like.  Throughout the summer months that we were

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Market ‘correction’ provides opportunity for GTA housing policy reset

Market ‘correction’ provides opportunity for GTA housing policy reset

The housing “crisis” has created an opportunity of a “reset” to stabilize the Greater Toronto Area’s housing market and development pathway. by Mark Winfield A defining feature of discussions around housing in the Greater Toronto Area over the past few years has been the notion of an affordability ‘crisis,’ as housing prices rose dramatically. Spillover

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Testing a rapid laboratory method for tracking permafrost thaw slump activity

Testing a rapid laboratory method for tracking permafrost thaw slump activity

by Claire O'Hagan Permafrost is permanently frozen ground, and is critical to the ecosystem health and function in northern landscapes. It is important for maintaining the stability of the soil, as well as the welfare of the organisms that inhabit northern areas. Permafrost thaw, ongoing as a result of anthropogenic climate change, has increased the

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Ontario must commit to affordable housing for all, not attainable housing

Ontario must commit to affordable housing for all, not attainable housing

by Murat Ucoglu and Ute Lehrer During his provincial election victory speech on June 2, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he aimed to build more housing to make the housing market more “attainable” for everyone. Although most people probably didn’t pay close attention to the specific choice of words Ford used during his speech, it’s alarming

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