The Conversation

Climate change is making the Great Lakes warmer, wetter, and wilder, posing threats to natural ecosystems as well as human habitation, three UWindsor researchers argue in an article published Tuesday.

Professor Richard Moon has published an informed opinion piece in The Conversation Canada about anti-Muslim hate speech. 

Acting Dean Beverly Jacobs has published an informed opinion piece in The Conversation Canada about the recent discovery of 215 children's graves in Kamloops, BC.

Professor Reem Bahdi has published an opinion piece in The Conversation Canada on the new human rights order which, as she writes, risks restricting criticism of Israel.

Last month, Ontario became the latest jurisdiction to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The province has sown division within and between communities in the process, writes Professor Bahdi.

In a Conversation Canada article published today, professors Reem Bahdi, Jillian Rogin and Sylvia Mcadam argue that recent legal reforms in Alberta and Saskatchewan suggest both provinces could be gearing up for more violence against Indigenous Peoples, even as both commit to reconciliation.

Windsor Law professors Sylvia McAdam, Jillian Rogin, and Reem Bahdi wrote an article for The Conversation Canada about McAdam's ancestral lands. Also the co-founder of Idle No More, Sylvia McAdam was brought before a Saskatchewan judge and put on trial for attempting to use her family’s ancestral lands.

Visiting Prof. Sukanya Pillay commented on SNC-Lavalin in her Conversation Canada article, stating that deferred prosecution deals aren’t get-out-of-jail free cards. The article went on to be the most-read story on the Conversation for an entire week. 

Amid the SNC Lavalin saga, Windsor Law Associate Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) Laverne Jacobs weighs in on identifying and preventing inappropriate political interference. Her article was published on The Conversation Canada, a daily independent online publication, over the weekend.