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Criminology
Alexander McClelland
- "Millions of dollars in COVID-19 fines disproportionately hurting Black, Indigenous, marginalized groups: report"
CTV News - "Tickets, fines for coronavirus rules target minorities: CCLA"
CityNews Winnipeg - "Civil liberties watchdog warns of ‘ugly ticketing pandemic’ during COVID-19 outbreak"
The Star - "Is it realistic to expect people not to hook up during the pandemic?"
Caledon Enterprise - "Canadians charged $5.8M in coronavirus fines: Report"
Now Toronto - "Crowded shelter or $880 fine? Homeless face ‘impossible’ coronavirus choice"
Global News - "Fines, snitch lines: Crackdown on coronavirus rule breakers could have consequences"
Global News - "Opinion: Tickets and fines unlikely to help in battle against COVID-19"
Montreal Gazette - "COVID-19 and the rising costs of social distancing: 'We’ve seen a real escalation'"
National Post - "Who will police the COVID-19 police?"
National Star - "Online map tracks police charges related to COVID-19"
Now Toronto - "Harsh policing and big fines don't make people safer from COVID-19: criminologists"
Ottawa Matters - "Criminologists say harsh policing and big fines don't make people safer from COVID-19"
CTV News - "Canadian Civil Liberties Association put enforcement of pandemic orders under spotlight"
The London Free Press - "Policing the pandemic will put marginalized communities at risk, advocates say"
National Post - "We can't police our way out of a pandemic"
Now Toronto - "Toxifying the online ecology"
Halifax Examiner
Emma McKenna
- "Sex, taxes & COVID-19: How sex workers navigated pandemic relief efforts"
The Conversation
Justin Piché
- "As COVID-19 spreads throughout N.L. prisons, the union representing correctional officers says province hasn't done enough to protect staff and inmates"
Saltwire - "Outbreak leads to prison unit lockdown"
The Guardian - "Fewer than half of Ottawa inmates have 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine"
CBC News - "Staff fear burnout as the COVID outbreak sweeps through the jail"
Heromag - "Indigenous Inmates Testing Positive For COVID-19 At Higher Rates In Federal Prisons"
Global News - "Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Ontario jails spike"
Toronto Star - "COVID-19 outbreak infects 30 at Hamilton detention centre as cases spike in Ontario jails"
CBC News - "COVID-19 spread in prisons and jails could be 2021 all over again, says advocate"
CBC News - "As prison COVID cases rise, calls are mounting for inmate release"
National Observer - "'A DISASTER': Ottawa criminologist urges the depopulation prisons before Omicron hits"
Ottawa Sun - "COVID outbreak shuts Brockville jail; Inmates moved to Ottawa and Lindsay"
Ottawa Sun - "Anatomy of an outbreak: How COVID-19 overran this Ontario prison"
TVO - "Stopping jail outbreaks of COVID-19 needs to be a priority, Etches says"
CBC News - "Some prisoners not offered COVID-19 shots until months after general public, CBC analysis finds"
CBC News - "Lack of trust, information driving low vaccination rate at Ottawa jail, advocate says"
CBC News - "Nearly 75% of federal prisoners have been vaccinated against COVID-19"
CBC News - "More than 100 inmates and staff in COVID-19 outbreak at Lindsay jail"
Toronto Star - "Hamilton public health vaccinating inmates but not jail guards is 'egregious,' union says"
CBC News - "Vaccine available at correctional facilities"
The Kingston Whig-Standard - "'Public health crisis': Canada's prison conditions during pandemic being investigated"
CTV News - "Most inmates at Milton’s Maplehurst jail refused offer of COVID-19 vaccine"
Toronto Star - "'Folks are dying’: Community rallies for depopulation of Ontario jails after COVID-19 outbreaks"
Global News - "Sask. inmates can be tested for COVID-19 antibodies in new federal study"
CTV News - "COVID-19 hit federal prisons twice as hard in 2nd wave of pandemic, report says"
CBC News - "With outbreaks clustered in men’s medium-security institutions and women’s multi-level penitentiaries, a significant release of prisoners is needed"
Policy Options - "Maplehurst’s 130 active COVID cases make it Ontario’s worst jail outbreak of the pandemic"
Inside Ottawa Valley - "Some Sask. inmates concerned about getting COVID-19 vaccine"
Saskatoon Star Phoenix - "COVID-19: Should a B.C. drug dealer with cancer be going to jail during a pandemic?"
New Westminster Record - "Some provinces yet to say when jail inmates to be vaccinated against COVID-19"
CTV News - "Provinces should set targets for giving prison inmates coronavirus vaccine: advocates"
Global News - "COVID-19 vaccines roll out in federal prisons"
Excalibur - "COVID-19 vaccines being administered at area CSC institutions"
The Kingston Whig Standard - "Federal offenders not being moved to head of vaccine line: CSC official"
The Kingston Whig-Standard - "Doug Ford is making scapegoats of Ontario’s prisoners"
The Hamilton Spectator - "Researchers call for government action amid increase in COVID-19 cases in Canadian prisons, jails"
The Globe and Mail - "COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to some inmates at Sask. federal psychiatric facility"
CTV News - "Elderly, medically at-risk inmates to be vaccinated starting Friday"
The Kingston Whig Standard - "Conservatives slam vaccine rollout plan that prioritizes some federal prisoners"
CBC News - "Canada’s oldest and most vulnerable prison inmates are getting COVID-19 vaccine, Correctional Service says"
Toronto Star - "Joyceville inmate committee speaks out on current COVID-19 conditions"
The Kingston Whig Standard - "Federal inmates set to receive COVID vaccines starting Friday"
CTV Ottawa News - "Canadian prisoners expected to start being vaccinated this week: Report"
Newstalk 1010 - "Inmates fear 'leaving in a body bag' as COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons worsen"
CTV News - "At least 80 inmates test positive for COVID-19 at Kingston prison"
CBC News - "Should prisoners go to the front of the line? Advocates urge provincial and federal governments to vaccinate prison inmates and staff"
Toronto Star - "Release non-violent offenders early to prevent spread of COVID-19: professor"
The Kingston Whig Standard - "Inmates 'sitting ducks' as COVID-19 rages through prison, advocate says"
CBC News - "Kingston-area prison hit with serious COVID-19 outbreak"
CBC News - "Small number of COVID-19 cases confirmed at Alberta correctional facilities"
Calgary Herald - "Two CSC staff members test positive for COVID-19"
The Kingston Whig Standard - "Alberta prisoner populations down 35 per cent since start of COVID-19 pandemic"
Calgary Herald - "Nunavut has released 23 inmates since April 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic"
Nunatsiaq News - "Conservatives Premiers Are Doing More For People Behind Bars Than Trudeau"
VICE - "Prisoners' rights advocates rally at OCDC, call for inmates' release"
CBC News - "COVID-19 has — so far — been kept out of Alberta jails and prisons"
Edmonton Journal - "Prisons watchdog in the dark on inmate early release plan to limit spread of COVID-19"
CBC News - "Fighting the ‘other’ pandemic: Curbing COVID-19 in care homes, shelters and jails"
The Star - "Coronavirus: Outbreak in federal women's prison validates worst fears of advocates"
NOW Toronto - "230-plus cases of COVID-19 at correctional facilities, but none in Kingston area"
The Kingston Whig Standard - "UPDATED: Half of federal prison COVID-19 cases at B.C. facility"
Vancouver is Awesome - "Demonstration in solidarity with inmates at Barton Street jail"
The Hamilton Spectator - "For those incarcerated with their babies, COVID puts two generations in peril"
The Coast - "No new confirmed COVID-19 cases since Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre staff member tested positive"
The Hamilton Spectator - "11 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in outbreak at Mission Institution"
CBC News BC - "Bill Blair asks prison, parole heads to consider releasing some inmates to stop spread of COVID-19"
CBC News - "Coronavirus in the prison system: Avoiding a worst-case scenario"
Now Toronto - “Inmate with COVID-19 admitted to Toronto South jail after testing positive”
CBC News
Valerie Steeves
- "For teenagers, the internet helps during lockdowns but it’s no substitute for the outside world"
The Conversation - "Children's privacy is at risk with rapid shifts to online schooling under coronavirus"
The Conversation
Irvin Waller
Economics
Jean-Thomas Bernard
- "Home electricity use up as overall consumption drops during pandemic"
CBC News - "Coronavirus: Governments’ recovery plans should take ‘green route,’ study says"
Global News
Abel Brodeur
- "Mental health severely affected by pandemic"
Irish Health - "Emotional Coronacoaster: Lockdown’s effect on our emotions"
Happiful Magazine - "How COVID-19 led to Trump’s defeat"
National Newswatch - "Driving Behavior: How COVID-19 Pumped the Brakes on Transportation" (audio recording and transcript)
Resources Radio Podcast - "Here's how the coronavirus is affecting Canada's labour market"
Herald Globe
Carolyn Fischer
- "Keeping a distance: How safe are running and cycling amid COVID-19 measures?"
CBC News - "Poor planning for COVID-19 rings economic warning bell for climate"
CBC News
Feminist and Gender Studies
Michael Orsini
- "Quit mocking “anti-vaxxers” and understand roots of vaccine hesitancy"
Institute for Science, Society and Policy - "As COVID-19 threatens Brazil, its leader threatens the country’s Indigenous people"
The Globe and Mail - “COVID-19 visitation bans for people in institutions put many at risk in other ways”
CBC News
Corrie Scott
- "If we want care workers to have our backs during COVID-19, we must have theirs"
The Ottawa Citizen
Carolyn Whitzman
- "UBC report calls for better housing policies in a post-COVID world"
Building Magazine - "The ‘Great Reset’ conspiracy theory, Ways to provide housing in the COVID-19 era, University Hospital outbreak & Vaccine hesitancy" (audio recording)
Global News Radio - "Experts call for more equitable housing policy post-COVID-19"
UBC News - "COVID-19: Pandemics often bring about social reform. Could coronavirus lead to a better future?"
Soo Today - "What does the coronavirus pandemic sound like? The voices of people struggling, secluding and surviving around the world" (audio recording)
The Conversation - "Silver lining: Could COVID-19 lead to a better future?"
Canadian Architect
International Development and Global Studies
Marie-Eve Desrosiers
Melissa Marschke
- "Facing lockdown at sea"
Hakai Magazine - "Migrant worker segregation doesn't work: COVID-19 lessons from Southeast Asia"
The Conversation - "New research on impacts of COVID-19 on migrant workers in seafood supply chain"
Education News Canada - "Previously praised for dealing with Covid-19, cases are now rising again in Thailand"
News Beezer
Lauchlan T. Munro
- "The SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Lessons for International Development"
Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS)
Maïka Sondarjee
- "COVID-19: What role does Canada play in inequality in vaccines around the world?"
Vaughan Today - "Vaccine nationalism and COVID-19"
Open Canada
Susan Spronk
- "COVID-19 has decimated water systems globally, but privatization is not the answer"
The Conversation
Political Studies
Jacqueline Best
- "The Bank of Canada must seize the pandemic moment and do more for Canadians"
The Conversation - "The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for June 2"
CBC News - "Political Economy in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic" (audio recording - podcast)
Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) - "Does the economy need a helicopter rescue to escape COVID-19 disaster?"
CBC News
Linda Cardinal
Eric Champagne
Monica Gattinger
- "How COVID-19 could alter the course of climate change"
The Ottawa Citizen - "Will COVID-19 unite or divide Canada over its energy and climate future?"
Policy Options - "Despite lofty goals, Canada's greenhouse emissions aren't improving"
The Ottawa Citizen
Ryan Katz-Rosene
- "The Pandemic, the Economy, and Climate Change: Three Takeaways So Far"
Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) - "Air pollution eases in 4 Canadian cities as pandemic measures keep people home"
CBC News
Michael A. O'Neill
- "Containing the long-term impact of COVID-19 on higher education"
Policy Options
Geneviève Tellier
- "At least $61M spent equipping federal public servants to work from home"
CBC News - "Yukon premier brushes off opposition demands for more transparency on COVID-19 response"
CBC News
Jennifer Wallner
- "Generation COVID: Examining Canada's Education System"
CBC Radio's The House - "More homework while learning less: Students open up about pandemic schooling"
CBC News - "Has COVID-19 exposed cracks in the Canadian federation?" (audio recording)
CBC Listen - "COVID-19 shows the cracks in public education – here’s how to repair them"
The Conversation - "Canadian governments must not squander their most precious resource in the fight against COVID-19"
The Hill Times
Jennifer Wallner and André Lecours
- "Intergovernmental relations and the pandemic"
The Hill Times
Psychology
Andrea Ashbaugh
- "Tackling a fear of needles to increase COVID-19 vaccination rate"
CBC News - "University of Ottawa hosting free group therapy sessions to help residents overcome fears of needles during pandemic"
CTV News Ottawa
Cristina Atance
- "Adjusting to life as a stay-at-home working mom"
uOttawa Gazette - "How to Keep a Child From Constantly Interrupting Your Zoom Call"
Yahoo
Tim Aubry
- "How will COVID-19 affect seasonal depression this year?"
Metroland Media - "Governments acted quickly on pandemic. Let's do the same on homelessness"
The Ottawa Citizen
Jude Mary Cénat
- "Research team finds correlation between COVID-based discrimination and poor mental health"
Mirage News - "Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 Identified Across Populations"
Psychiatry Advisor - "Pandemic Taking Big Mental Health Toll on Health Care Workers"
Medicine Net - "Insomnia Reports Higher Among Healthcare Workers Than General Population During the Pandemic"
Sleep Review
Joseph De Koninck
- "Yukoners should avoid exercise, coffee and booze before bed to ensure better sleep" (audio recording)
CBC Listen - "Pandemic Dreaming" (audio recording)
CBC Listen - "Our wildest dreams: The pandemic means more of us remember our dreams"
The Ottawa Citizen
Stuart Fogel
- "Sleep and COVID-19" (audio recording)
CBC Ottawa
Stuart Hammond
- "Adjusting to life as a stay-at-home working mom"
Gazette uOttawa
Nafissa Ismail
- "Magic of Lights brightens the community mood with vibrant holiday colours"
Capital Current - "5 Ways to Sharpen Your People Skills After a Year In Isolation"
Reader's Digest Canada - "Having a more intense response to 2nd COVID-19 vaccine dose? Here’s why"
Global News - "Mental health coaches filling the gaps during pandemic"
CBC News - "COVID consequences: Teletherapy tackles surging mental health crisis"
Capital Current - "How to talk to kids about COVID as cases pop up in schools"
The Ottawa Citizen - "Choosing who to include in your bubble or "social circles"" (audio recording)
CBC Listen - "Will Ontario students head back to smaller classes with physical distancing rules?"
The Ottawa Citizen - "As coronavirus drags on, more Canadians ditch physical-distancing rules"
Global News - "Pandemic anxiety causing vivid dreams, expert says"
CBC News
Louise Lemyre
Allison Ouimet
- "How the Pandemic Changed How We Feel When We Feel Left Out"
Best Health - "How to combat post-lockdown anxiety as Ontario reopens"
CBC News
Rebecca Robillard
- "Beating COVIDsomnia"
Science Borealis - "Higher COVID-19 Risk for Physicians With Sleep Troubles"
MedPage - "5 Weird Ways The Pandemic Is Messing With Your Sleep"
Huffington Post Canada - "Mental health impact of the pandemic" (video recording)
CTV News - "Half of the Population May Be Experiencing Clinically Significant Sleep Difficulties During the Pandemic"
Infectious Disease Advisor - "Experts treat insomnia, anxiety caused by COVID-19"
Spartan Newsroom - "Sleeping Through a Pandemic"
Medpage Today
Maria Rogers
- "Physical activity at school is another casualty of COVID-19"
Fairview Post - "What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Thursday, June 25" (video recording)
CBC Ottawa - "Pandemic can be 'extremely stressful and traumatic' for some youngsters" (audio recording)
CBC Listen - "Lack of school structure putting children's mental health at risk"
CBC News
Darcy Santor
- "On the post-pandemic office — 'the mental strain will be enormous'"
The Ottawa Citizen - "Zoom fatigue? How to tell loved ones you don’t want to video chat"
Global News
Krystelle Shaughnessy
- "How the pandemic may permanently change how you work and connect with others" (audio recording)
The Goods - 580 CFRA - "The social tech and physical distance study: How COVID-19 could permanently change how we work and connect with others" (audio recording)
The Goods - 580 CFRA
Caroline Sullivan
Monnica Williams
- "Psychology professionals discuss how quarantine affects mental illness sufferers"
The Root - "Death, Life and Angst in the Age of COVID-19"
Psychology Today
Public and International Affairs
Rita Abrahamsen
Patrick Fafard
- "Canada’s public health leaders navigate choppy waters as pandemic drags on"
Toronto Star - "Chief medical officers of health can’t be all things to all people"
The Globe and Mail - "Before COVID-19, governments ignored warnings Public Health wasn't ready for a pandemic"
National Post - "'It’s a minefield': How public trust in Canada's top doctors is undermined by politics amid the COVID-19 pandemic"
Yahoo News - "From heroes to scapegoats: How Canada's regional top doctors have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic"
Edmonton Journal - "Can Canada’s border be reopened safely in a COVID-19 world? Here are some of the options experts are looking at"
The Star - "Canada's top doctor has many fans — but she's also facing a backlash"
Politico - "Mitigating the epidemic: uOttawa at the heart of Canada’s response to COVID-19"
uOttawa
Dan Gardner
- "Can the pandemic teach politicians to take long-term threats seriously?"
CBC News - "Pandemics are low-probability, high-consequence events. We should have been prepared"
The Globe and Mail - "Why Societies Are Resilient to Disasters Like COVID-19"
World Politics Review - "Coronavirus: Forget the science fiction movies, disasters actually make us better people"
Stuff
Peter Jones
- "Trump has erected a White House of mirrors on China and COVID-19"
The Globe and Mail
Ferry de Kerckhove
Patrick Leblond
- "Canada's coronavirus expenses might not breed higher taxes"
Wealth Professional - "Paying for the pandemic: Why the government’s massive coronavirus spending may not lead to higher taxes"
The Conversation
Patti Tamara Lenard
Costanza Musu
- "War metaphors used for COVID-19 are compelling but also dangerous"
The Conversation
Roland Paris
- "After a me-first pandemic, G7 leaders feel the need for some defensive globalism"
The Globe and Mail - "As Coronavirus Cases Top 3 Million, Fauci Warns Against Misreading a Falling Death Rate"
The New York Times - "Rapid spread of virus on USS Kidd shows challenge military faces in COVID-19 age"
Washington Examiner - "'Mask wars' risk setting back global fight against coronavirus"
CBC News - “COVID-19 requires a co-ordinated global response, experts say. But the world order is crumbling”
The Star - “Trump and Trudeau are on a collision course over COVID-19 isolation”
The Globe and Mail
Paul Robinson
Marc Saner
- "Nomen est omen: Naming COVID-19 and Social Consequences"
Institute for Science, Society and Policy, uOttawa
Christine Straehle
- "Canadian Politicians Face Ire After Taking Trips During the Holidays"
New York Times
Srdjan Vucetic
- "Coronavirus shows why Canada must reduce its dependence on the U.S."
The Conversation
Wesley Wark
- "Trudeau commits to improve pandemic preparedness after report flags deficiencies in early-warning system"
The Globe and Mail - "Military medical intelligence warnings gathered dust as public health struggled to define COVID-19"
CBC News - "Woodward's Trump revelations raise questions about Canada's response to COVID-19"
CBC News - "Theresa Tam supports federal review into Canada’s pandemic early warning system"
The Globe and Mail - "Combatting a pandemic requires mobilizing intelligence’: former PCO clerk calls for reforms to emergency preparedness"
The Hill Times - "Military intelligence unit briefed Sajjan on COVID-19 risk on January 17: documents"
CBC News - "Canada-U.S. cross-border travel will be forever changed by coronavirus, experts say"
CityNews 1130 - "The great PPE panic: how the pandemic caught Canada with its stockpiles down"
CBC News - "Public Safety Minister Bill Blair rules out using Canada’s spy agencies to track COVID-19 spread"
The Star - "Canada needs a plan to prevent hostile post-coronavirus foreign takeovers, experts warn"
Global News - "Canada’s order for N95 masks drops by nearly 50 million due to supply issues"
The Globe and Mail - "Depleted national stockpile leaves Canada reliant on China for masks, gowns and other supplies during pandemic"
CBC News - "Will COVID-19 Redefine National Security?" (video recording)
TVO The Agenda - "Health Minister says Canada is 'open' to reviewing WHO's COVID-19 actions"
CTV News - "Free online 'threat blocker' launched in Canada as successful COVID-19 scams multiply"
CBC News - "The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for April 22"
CBC News - "Canada cut number of stockpile storage locations for critical medical supplies by one third in past two years"
The Globe and Mail - "Inside Canada's frayed pandemic early warning system and its COVID-19 response"
CBC News - "Trudeau pushes back as intelligence expert slams COVID-19 early warning failure"
CTV News - "Morning Brief: 8% of Ontario households say member reported key COVID-19 symptom: poll"
iPolitics - "Head of Canadian Medical Association pushes Ottawa to explain lack of preparation ahead of pandemic’s arrival"
The Globe and Mail - "COVID-19 a ‘failure of early warning’ for Canada, intelligence expert says"
The Star - "Canadian military intelligence unit issued warning about Wuhan outbreak back in January"
CBC News - "Experts lend credence to concerns that China played down COVID-19 impacts"
The Globe and Mail
Sociological and Anthropological Studies
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
- "Hospital protests 'demoralizing,' say eastern Ontario health-care workers"
CBC News - "Smoking it up: Increased cannabis consumption tied to poorer mental health during COVID-19"
The Fulcrum - "The missing voice of women in COVID-19 policy-making"
Policy Options - "COVID-19 is changing the way men and women split the risk in the workplace"
CBC News - "Cheering from afar: Study illustrates public’s concerns over contact with healthcare workers"
Healthy Debate - "'The women’s pandemic': How COVID-19 has disproportionately affected women"
The Ottawa Citizen
Kelly Bronson
- "Federal COVID Alert app wasn't working for some users for much of November"
CBC News - "The social value of models and Big Data"
Institute for Science, Society and Policy
Diane Pacom
Scott Simon
- Science and Technology in Canada-Japan Relations: Facing Together the Challenges of COVID-19 and Beyond
Centre for International Policy Studies - "Canada urged to bolster health screening at airports to prevent spread of COVID-19"
The Globe and Mail