Expert: Montreal pitch as Amazon鈥檚 2nd headquarters
鈥淲anted: A place with a million people, a diverse population, good schools and malleable lawmakers. Room to accommodate up to 50,000 workers. Canadian provinces also welcome to apply.鈥 (New York Times)
Experts: Hurricane Irma
鈥淎s a Category 5 with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour, Irma now ranks among the most powerful hurricanes (as measured by wind speed) ever recorded. Irma has sustained these 185 mph winds for more than 24 hours, a record length of time. And it鈥檚 one of the most powerful cyclones to ever make landfall.鈥 (Vox)
Experts: Dreamers and DACA in the US
鈥淎s 15 states and Washington DC filed suit against Donald Trump over the rescinding of protection for young people brought to the US illegally as children, House speaker Paul Ryan said such 鈥楧reamers鈥 should 鈥榬est easy鈥 as Congress tackled immigration reform.鈥 (The Guardian)
Expert: Violence in Myanmar
鈥淭he United Nations secretary-general, Ant贸nio Guterres, has appealed to Myanmar to end the violence that has led more than 120,000 Rohingya people to flee in the last two weeks, which he warned was 鈥榗reating a situation that can destabilise the region鈥.鈥 (The Guardian)
Expert: Airbnb and the Quebec government
鈥淎irbnb and the Government of Quebec have finalized the first-ever tax agreement in Canada that will allow Airbnb to collect and remit the tax on accommodation on behalf of hosts using its residential sharing platform.
Expert: tree damage due to storms
"The storm, which hit Tuesday afternoon and brought winds of up to 120 km/h, snapped tree branches, uprooted trees and downed hydro poles from the West Island over to the Saint-Henri neighbourhood, but authorities say there have been no reported injuries." (CBC)
Back-to-school experts
Minorities and bullyingReligious bullying & religious literacy, inclusion of minorities in public education 鈥 alice.chan [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Alice Chan), Ph.D Candidate, Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), English only
Indigenous EducationIndigenous Education - ekim039 [at] gmail.com (Eun-Ji Amy Kim), Ph.D Candidate, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, English only
Expert: Unemployment and the Aging Workforce
鈥淏ad news for anyone who still believes in freedom from work at 55. The number of women of this age and older who reported having jobs rose by 14,000 from June and by 66,000 from a year earlier. The number of working men aged 55 and older increased by 69,000 from 2016.鈥 (Maclean鈥檚)
Expert: National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
鈥淎 coalition composed mainly of relatives of missing and murdered Indigenous women is demanding the replacement of all remaining commissioners and a reset of the inquiry initiated by the federal Liberal government to look into the tragedy.鈥 (The Globe and Mail)
Strong Link Between Child Welfare and Youth Homelessness in Canada
A new聽report聽shows that almost sixty percent (57.8%) of homeless youth in Canada report involvement with the child welfare system at some point in their lives. In comparison, among the general population in Canada, roughly 0.3% of youth have child welfare involvement. This suggests that youth experiencing homelessness are 193 times more likely than youth in the general population to report involvement with the child welfare system.
Expert: Impact of forest fires in Western Canada on unborn children
B.C. wildfire season worst in six decades, still far from over 鈥淜evin Skrepnek of the B.C. Wildfire Service said Thursday that 4,910 square kilometres of forest, bush and grassland have been torched, making 2017 the second worst in recorded history in terms of land destroyed. August is usually one of the busiest months for fire, so the situation could get worse, he added.鈥
Expert: Air passenger bill of rights
鈥淎 new air passenger bill of rights would punish airlines for keeping people on the tarmac longer than three hours, forcing them to compensate passengers. But it would not compel carriers to disembark a plane delayed for long periods.鈥 (CBC)
Expert on Census 2016: More Canadians living alone and without children (August 2)
鈥淐anadians are living increasingly alone and without children, according to the latest census figures released by Statistics Canada.鈥 (CBC)
Experts: Dairy, lumber and NAFTA (***UPDATED***)
鈥淯.S. President Donald Trump's surprisingly caustic complaints about trade with Canada in recent days could be setting the stage for a broader renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement than previously advertised.鈥 (Metro News)
Expert: male eating disorder on the rise
In the United Kingdom, "the number of adult men being admitted to hospital with an eating disorder has risen by 70% over the past six years 鈥 the same rate of increase as among women," reports The Guardian. Is there a similar trend in Canada?聽