The Conversation News Archive
St. John's College
The Conversation: Free menstrual products matter to support equity, but so do adequate facilities and sinks
September 24, 2024 —
As written in The Conversation by Adele Perry, Director at Centre for Human Rights Research, Distinguished Professor, History and Women's and Gender Studies, and senior fellow at St John's college. Shifting the conversation from period poverty to menstrual justice is an important step. Menstrual justice is about ensuring that all people who menstruate be provided with the resources and infrastructure to do so safely and with dignity.
St. John's College
The Conversation: Winnipeg and virtual film series reflects the beauty of Indigenous worldviews
July 25, 2024 —
Decolonizing Lens is a film and discussion series based in Winnipeg that brings together Indigenous filmmakers, their films and audiences as a form of public education.
The Conversation: New commission sheds light on how diaspora communities are impacted by foreign interference
May 15, 2024 —
The federal government established the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions, led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, in September 2023.
The Conversation: Dating apps: Lack of regulation, oversight and competition affects quality, and millions stand to lose
March 26, 2024 —
When Aleksandr Zhadan used ChatGPT to talk to over 5,000 women on Tinder, it was a sign of things to come.
Faculty of Arts
The Conversation: Ancient scrolls are being ‘read’ by machine learning – with human knowledge to detect language and make sense of them
March 13, 2024 —
A groundbreaking announcement for the recovery of lost ancient literature was recently made. Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 columns of ancient Greek text from within a carbonized papyrus from Herculaneum, a seaside Roman town eight kilometres southeast of Naples, Italy.
The Conversation: Rethinking masculinity: Teaching men how to love and be loved
February 9, 2024 —
How will young men learn to love when many messages seem to be either focused on what is wrong with them — or how they can dominate?
The Conversation: Black men’s mental health concerns are going unnoticed and unaddressed
February 8, 2024 —
Protesters in Winnipeg recently took to the streets to demand accountability after police shot and killed a 19-year-old Black university student on New Year’s Eve. Afolabi Opaso was an undergraduate student from Nigeria studying economics at the University of Manitoba.
The Voice: why Australia is holding a referendum on First Nations representation to government – podcast
October 5, 2023 —
Australia goes to the polls on October 14 in a referendum on whether to enshrine an Indigenous advisory body, known as the Voice to Parliament, into the country’s constitution.
What Wab Kinew’s win in Manitoba reveals about the province’s political history
October 4, 2023 —
Manitoba voters have elected the NDP’s Wab Kinew as premier. His election is both a break with recent Manitoba political history and a continuation of the long history of Indigenous involvement in electoral politics in Manitoba.
Bill C-22 will provide income security to Canadians with disabilities, but it needs to be done right
September 22, 2023 —
Canada’s first national disability benefit, Bill C-22, received royal assent on June 22, 2023. The bill was reintroduced in 2022 after initially being tabled two years prior.