by Calvin Lakhan Recently, I had the pleasure of giving a guest lecture to a group of Fleming College students enrolled in the waste management program. It's always so exciting to see how many young and curious minds are entering the space - the future of waste management research is a bright one. As part
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by Mahtot Gebresselassie Numerous lawsuits have been filed against transportation network companies (TNCs) Uber and Lyft for lack of disabled accessibility of the transportation service they facilitate, with some of the lawsuits focusing on wheelchair accessibility. The research question that drives this study is: What are the perceptions, experiences, and preferences of wheelchair users regarding
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The University of Ghana and York University have partnered in an IDRC Women RISE initiative supporting action-oriented and gender-transformative research on how women's health and their work intersect and interact in the context of preparedness, response and recovery from COVID-19. Women RISE is aligned with priority 3.5 of the United Nations Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery on
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by Balikisu Osman, Environmental Studies PhD Candidate Ghana is one of the few countries often praised for achieving impressive reductions in hunger. The 2022 Global Hunger Index report reveals Ghana’s hunger score has declined by more than 50 percent since the year 2000. At the Crans Montana Forum held in November 2022, where critical issues of global food security
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by Codrina Ibanescu What does our collective future look like, with the current climate crisis on the horizon? Moreover, what role does education play in advancing climate solutions to ensure a prosperous and sustainable future for tomorrow? We simply cannot solve today’s problems using yesterday’s thinking – the future of our youth and our planet
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by Zachary Dark As part of my broader research into the contemporary politics of hydroelectricity in Canada, I am interested in how hydroelectric infrastructure both physically and symbolically remakes environments. In 2009, Manitoba Hydro (a provincially-owned electricity utility in Manitoba, Canada) opened its new headquarters on the edge of downtown Winnipeg. The award-winning headquarters building,
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by Balikisu Osman The unequal geography of hunger in Ghana Around the world, millions of people are struggling to secure social, economic, and physical access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and preferences. In Ghana, for example, an estimated 3.6 million people, representing 11.7% of the population, do not know
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The work to build Canada’s first Climate Solutions Parks (CSP) has received an important boost, thanks to new funding from the Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada (CEWIL Canada). The CSPs that are being built will focus on skills development in key areas such as community-focused agriculture, renewable energy, electric mobility, First Nations knowledge, sustainable
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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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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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