Since launching online gambling, the Ontario government, which gains significant tax revenue from gambling, has announced no funding for independent research to monitor the impact on problem gambling.
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Agrivoltaics — a portmanteau for agriculture and photovoltaics — has enormous potential to solve our climate and energy problems simultaneously.
Canada’s survival faces challenges not only from the U.S., but from within: fraying internal alliances and elite detachment from economic and demographic realities.
In Ontario and elsewhere, we still need reforms that give decision-makers the power to bring robust democratic oversight to EdTech in schools.
A newly created Primary Care Action Team has a lofty goal: to ensure all Ontarians have access to primary health care within five years. Here are five principals to consider to help achieve it.
In a Toronto-based ‘artivism’ program, emerging artists gain skills integral to their artistic practice and create accessible information about the youth justice system.
City Symposium in London, Ont., brought artists, activists, civil servants and academics together to broaden understanding about health inequity research in the community.
New laws in Canada will make it harder for whistleblowers to shed light on cruelty and malpractice in animal agriculture — and will hinder efforts to prevent the next global pandemic.
The proposed use of the notwithstanding clause to clear homeless encampments would add unhoused people to a growing list of those whose human rights have been recently curbed by the clause.
A landmark legal ruling in Ontario could pave the way for greater government climate accountability in the province while setting an important precedent for the rest of the country.
A new sports centre could bring together diverse groups, foster stronger social ties, encourage collaboration, and enhance mutual understanding and respect among Torontonians.
Neither prospective school board social media lawsuit wins, nor proposed Ontario or federal privacy or AI legislation, would prevent problems related to rampant processing of human-derived data.
The broader societal fallout of anti-immigrant discourse is the further normalization of everyday hate and animosity toward migrants, especially those who are racialized.
The controversy surrounding this memorial highlights the broader memory wars around the history of Sri Lanka’s civil war: how it is remembered and by whom.
MAiD needs safeguards for the vulnerable: Ontario coroner’s reports show more marginalized people receiving Track 2 MAiD, which provides assisted death for those with disability but who are not dying.
The spectacular landscapes and pristine waters of the north shore of Lake Superior, which once provided inspiration for the Group of Seven, are now vulnerable to algal blooms.
Instead of trying to force unwilling workers back to the office, Canadian cities should instead focus on developing downtowns that people genuinely want to visit and experience.
Ontario’s focus on car-centric development without other investments in community will not improve the quality of life for Ontarians.
Community initiatives play a vital role yet they are often not recognized by emergency response organizations, and as a result are often under-utilized.
The closure of youth detention centres is a positive development. However, without adequate investment in community organizations that serve youth, it is a move set up to fail.
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