Social Research

By Amy Janzwood “This Brief summarizes lessons from the academic literature for building successful social movements. It outlines several core insights with an eye on their practical [...]

From their website, “The New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council is leading a community driven project called Looking Out For Each Other: Assisting Aboriginal families and communities when [...]

New resources from Statistics Canada by Jing Hui Wang and Greg Moreau, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics. Available here.

A good, and far-ranging, list of topics covered in this podcast.

An excellent article by sociologist, Elijah Anderson that appeared in the Guardian.

Also offers an interactive version where you can search for individual media companies. Available here.

Wilson, a Harvard professor for 46 years, was an expert on insects and explored how natural selection and other forces could influence animal behavior. He then applied his research to humans. New [...]

An excellent piece of investigative journalism, by Hilary Beaumont with photography by Chris Katsarov Luna, took more than a year to research.

A piece from CBC Radio (here) that highlights the reality of one small town trying to adjust, and survive, Alberta’s transition away from coal-fired power.

SFU Sociologist, Kyle Willmott’s article (in The Conversation) is a pointed critique of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s anti-Indigenous politics.