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Is Canada finally investing in its rural communities? What funding for rural transit reveals
While transit programs are often focused on urban places, it’s just as important to rural communities to maintain transportation links.
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How grief became a subscription service
Two researchers navigate the mind-boggling and often sinister, parallel universe that is known as the digital afterlife industry and chatbots specifically designed to help people grieve.
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Fifa’s failed equity plan and football’s growing welfare crisis
Fifa’s expansionist strategy is pushing elite footballers beyond acceptable limits.
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Bones are much more dynamic than scientists once believed – they even have a daily rhythm
Your bones run on a 24-hour clock too and disrupting it with late nights and screens could be weakening your skeleton.
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How four Asian economies are positioning themselves for the AI age
Asia’s middle powers are identifying how and where they can cultivate indispensability in the AI value chain.
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Today’s arguments about disability benefits have been raging for 500 years
From Tudor welfare claims to modern PIP assessments, disabled people have long faced suspicion and bureaucracy.
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Running for parliament in Malawi costs a fortune: economic crisis undermines democracy
For many Malawians living in acute poverty, elections provided an opportunity to secure much-needed relief.
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Respectful maternity care starts with improving hospital culture: lessons from rural South Africa
Care improves when healthcare professionals are given the tools to find their own solutions.
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Ghana’s housing problem goes beyond numbers – it’s also about quality
New census-based research shows Ghana’s policy must confront the quality of the homes people already occupy.
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Before Trump, some states had already ended affirmative action for contractors – here’s what happened
Contractors affected by affirmative action bans at the state level saw a drop in employee head count but were no less likely to go out of business.
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Better call mom: Schools still see mothers as the default parent to contact
When both parents appeared equally available, schools were 40% more likely to call students’ moms, rather than their dads.
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What the panic over Gen Z’s reading habits gets wrong
Despite dire warnings of a ‘postliterate’ generation, data suggests Gen Z is still reading – just in ways many traditional studies fail to capture.