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Some people don’t have the ability to create mental images, a condition called aphantasia, but can still experience visual imagery in their dreams.
In the News: Emiko Muraki, Penny Pexman in The Conversation Canada

We’re just starting to learn more about aphantasia, the inability to picture things with the mind’s eye

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Small, proactive countermeasures can reduce digital distress and make us feel more empowered over our mental health
In the News: Brittany Harker Martin in The Conversation Canada

Are you under digital distress? 3 ways tech-triggers may be affecting your mental health

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
In the News: The Conversation Canada

Canada’s federal transfer payment system badly needs a tune-up

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Child and adult
In the News: The Conversation Canada

How parents feel about feelings can deeply affect a child’s development

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Could arts and culture become a new ‘bread basket’ export? This is one of four scenarios the Future Prairie Theatre research team explored.
In the News: The Conversation Canada

The theatre we want in 2040? We used ‘strategic foresight’ to plan on the Prairies

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Bridge Out Sign
In the News: The Conversation Canada

Federal budget 2023: Long-term investments are needed to fix Canada’s infrastructure gap

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A pedestrian wearing a mask crosses a street in Calgary in November 2020.
In the News: The Conversation Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on Albertans. Here’s how they’re faring now

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Recruits attend military training at a firing range in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia in October 2022, eight months into Russia’s war in Ukraine. The mobilization of recruits was a sign of Russian acknowledgement that it was engaged in full-fledged war, not a ‘special military operation.’
In the News: The Conversation Canada

Why Russia’s war in Ukraine today is so different from a year ago

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Men’s soccer has had a problem with allyship long before Qatar was awarded the hosting rights for this year’s World Cup.
In the News: The Conversation Canada

World Cup 2022: Men’s soccer must stop silencing activism and allyship

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Staff members work at a newly opened fast-food restaurant in a former McDonald’s outlet in June 2022 in Moscow. It offers most of the same items as McDonald’s and is an example of how Russia is defying western sanctions.
In the News: The Conversation Canada

How the Russian economy is defying and withstanding western sanctions

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