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Geopolitics will cast a long shadow over the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games ( theconversation.com )

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How Canada and Sweden are redefining northern security and co-operation ( theconversation.com )

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TIL that Moore's law no longer applies. ( theconversation.com )

Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds ( theconversation.com )

Organized labour continues to make gains in Canada’s most anti-union province ( theconversation.com )

The world is in water bankruptcy, UN scientists report – here’s what that means ( theconversation.com )

Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order ( theconversation.com )

Taking paracetamol in pregnancy doesn’t increase your baby’s risk of autism or ADHD – new review ( theconversation.com )

Canada at war with Russia? Why the debate has shifted from ‘if’ to ‘when’ -- [Opinion] ( theconversation.com )

Opinion piece by Brian McQuinn, Co-Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Conflict and Associate Professor, International Studies, University of Regina; and Marcus Kolga, Adjunct professor, University of Regina....

Iran protests 2026: surveys show Iranians agree more on regime change than what might come next ( theconversation.com )

This is a piece by Ammar Maleki, Assistant Professor, Public Law and Governance, Tilburg University: and Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies, Utrecht University....

Canada risks missing out on Africa’s trade boom under Mark Carney -- [Opinion] ( theconversation.com )

Opinion piece by Isaac Odoom, Assistant Professor for Political Science, Carleton University....

Time-space synesthisia ( theconversation.com )

I'm fascinated by different experiences of reality, never heard of this one before.

Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds ( theconversation.com )

The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily ( theconversation.com )

Voters in Hamburg have rejected universal basic income. Many economists would agree with them ( theconversation.com )

Universal basic income (UBI) has supporters across the political spectrum. The idea is that if every citizen received a payment from the state to cover their living costs, it this will allow them the freedom to live as they choose....

Kidnapping for ransom in the Sahel: analysis of 24 years of data shows a new trend || The Conversation ( theconversation.com )

Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay? ( theconversation.com )

If social media for kids is so bad, should we be allowed to post kids’ photos online? ( theconversation.com )

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard quit Spotify in protest, only for an AI doppelgänger to step in ( theconversation.com )

Vaccine committee votes to scrap universal hepatitis B shots for newborns despite outcry from children’s health experts ( theconversation.com )

The committee advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy voted on Dec. 5, 2025, to stop recommending that all newborns be routinely vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus – undoing a 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B infections in the United...

Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier ( theconversation.com )

How can society police the global spread of online far-right extremism while still protecting free speech? That’s a question policymakers and watchdog organizations confronted as early as the 1980s and ’90s – and it hasn’t gone away....

How unsustainable global supply chains exacerbate food insecurity ( theconversation.com )

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Iran: Leaked wedding video lays bare luxurious lives of the country’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic -- [Opinion] ( theconversation.com )

A short video of a private wedding went viral in Iran recently, tearing away the country’s veil of piety and exposing hypocrisy and a seeming disregard for the rules by which the theocratic regime requires that most Iranians live their lives....