Alberta politicians have become skilful at creating an ‘us-versus-them’ mentality that paints the province as the home of independent mavericks, says a Calgary-based filmmaker and researcher.
Canadian fashions popularity.
In 1990, singer k.d. lang ignited a controversy in her native Alberta when she ‘came out’ as a vegetarian. But a University of Saskatchewan professor says the way the controversy ultimately played out illustrates the growing diversity and sophistication of Western Canadian society.
A Université de Montréal philosopher and ethicist is proposing that governments implement an organ donation tax credit to help increase the number of organs available for transplant.
Consumers have a moral duty to investigate any company they decide to boycott, says a Calgary philosopher.
A Windsor, Ont., researcher says the loss of traditional manufacturing jobs in Canada is fuelling a backlash against feminism.
A researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has measured the amount of lead in two skull fragments of Ludwig van Beethoven and found that it was unlikely for lead poisoning to have caused the renal failure that was partly responsible for Beethoven’s death, eliminating one of the many suggested causes of death for the famed composer.
They live in enclaves with little contact with home or with the Mexican mainstream.
What’s evolving, says researcher, is a multi-dimensional way of communicating.
Night Nurse survived only four issues despite strong characters and ER-worthy plots, says a comics expert.
At age 84, James Martin Wybar of Philadelphia was the first in line to receive his diploma at Olin Business School's 2010 commencement ceremony at Washington University in St. Louis. Wybar is the oldest graduate in the school's history. He finished his courses in 1947, but didn't have time to collect his diploma until this year.
Researchers looked at five reality shows and five non-reality shows and found 52 acts of aggression per hour on reality TV compared to 33 per hour for the non-reality programs.
Bibliography shows King of Pop influenced fields of chemistry, medicine, law and even engineering.
An inspirational story of David Fisher who overcame homelessness and abuse to graduate from Moravian College with dual B.A. degrees in sociology and psychology.
Pop culture critic James Kendrick, author of books on film violence and horror, has seen and written about zombie films dating from 1968 to the present
What would have happened if Hitler had chosen to use the deadly nerve gas Tabun, that he alone possessed, to oppose the D-Day landings? What the little known chemist, Otto Ambros, told Adolph Hitler at their fateful 1943 meeting, saved countless lives, shortened history’s most horrific war and may have prevented a tragic D-Day defeat.
K-State researchers have found that the majority of married military couples are satisfied with their relationship, despite challenges like deployments.
When it comes to talking to parents about most dating issues, teen girls tend to disclose more than boys, and both sexes generally prefer to talk to their mothers.
A new study suggests that nearly a fourth of women consider themselves “OK either way” about getting pregnant – a wide swath of ambivalence that surprised researchers, and that could reshape how doctors approach many aspects of women’s health care.
A new national survey of high school students’ attitudes toward the U.S. economy, conducted by Hamilton College, shows more than two-thirds of African-American teenagers believe they’ll be more prosperous than their parents. In contrast, a little more than a third of white students believe their standard of living will be better than their parents.
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