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Lunchbox labour is back — here’s how Canada’s new school food program can grow
Canada’s ambitious vision for improving access to school food needs to be bolstered by community collaboration and high-quality research.
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Narrow mail-in voting ruling by Supreme Court adds uncertainty to midterm elections without addressing constitutionality of Trump’s executive order
Will an Aug. 24, 2026, Supreme Court decision lead to chaos in the midterm elections? An election law scholar dissects the decision, its background and possible effects.
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Algorithms are choosing who sees what political ads. NZ urgently needs transparency
Political parties might choose their election ads but increasingly it’s tech companies’ algorithms that decide who sees them.
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Young Canadians aren’t drifting toward conservative and far-right parties
The bigger movement in the data over the past quarter-century is at the other end of the age spectrum: A reliable base of older Conservative Party voters is largely gone.
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How political life in Britain became so dangerous
The security of politicians has increasingly been in the spotlight.
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How Brick Lane became the latest neighbourhood to battle against a data centre
The government has fast-tracked approval for a data centre at the site of a historic brewery in east London.
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Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions over Red Sea port have turned the Tigray peace deal into a political weapon
An incomplete peace agreement has become a useful political tool to the Ethiopian government, the TPLF and Eritrea.
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Rwanda’s national pension fund has helped power the economy, but it faces new challenges
The Rwandan case demonstrates the potential to use pension fund assets for strategic investments in the national economy.
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$40 trillion debt balloon is a warning sign for US economy and the world
After topping a record US$40 trillion, US national debt looks set to climb further.
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Syringe litter did not increase after a needle exchange ban was overturned in Pueblo, Colorado, but health services suffered
Evidence suggests that people who receive syringes from a needle exchange are less likely to dispose of them improperly.
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Shifting the cleanup cost of packaging waste to companies could encourage greener packaging – but only if states are aligned
Extended producer responsibility policies are gaining steam in the US, but what they entail can differ widely from state to state.
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The long afterlife of QAnon conspiracy theories haunting American politics
Ideas from QAnon’s conspiracy theory have appeared on government social media sites during Trump’s second term and continue to divide America amid social and economic crises.