Research

When minimum security units are closed in prisons, it is both a human rights violation and a reduction in available choices for women sentenced to prison time, write Dal PhD student Martha Paynter and colleague Linda Mussell.

The associate professor, lawyer, Aboriginal women’s rights advocate, author, and public speaker explains what can be done to address the many health disparities experienced by Indigenous peoples when accessing and receiving medical care.

Lissa Skitolsky, the Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at Dalhousie, provides a message of support against recent anti-Semitic stickers spotted in Halifax — and helps explain how these messages reflect historic persecution and oppression.

An international study led by Manuel Helbig in Dal’s Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science has shown how conservation and restoration of boreal peatlands could be an important tool to mitigate climate change impacts in the north.

Pregnant women are at increased risk for serious COVID-19 complications and should be a high-priority group for vaccination, writes Dal researcher Françoise Baylis and her colleague Angela Ballantyne. Excluding them from vaccine trials puts them and their offspring at risk.