Canada & the World

Supply chain expert Behrouz Bakhtiari explains the global implications of a potential blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic shipping route in the Red Sea.

Bill 9 is a fundamental shift in what secularism is being asked to do, Marwan El Gaddafi writes.

The Rapid Response to Wildfires project is examining what Indigenous communities need before, during and after wildfire evacuations to support recovery, rebuilding and future preparedness.

As the threat of wildfire becomes increasingly more frequent for Canadians, the civil engineering professor is diving deep into the role of an engineer in times of crisis.

The earliest Indigenous populations in the Americas had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, archeologists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and McMaster found.

Resilient urban mobility means giving people ways to move around when a shock affects one form of transportation, Christopher Greyson-Gaito writes.

Canada’s aging population is a marker of national success, not a crisis, writes Parminder Raina. It's also an opportunity to build the strongest aging society in the world.

A showcase of the students, staff and faculty at McMaster who enrich our community with diverse perspectives and Ways of Knowing.

Without a shift toward greater gender equity, the falling fertility rate could lead to a shrinking and aging work force, increased health-care costs and social isolation.

The Strait of Hormuz is closed for the first time in the life of the Islamic Republic. Understanding why it stayed open for so long, and why it’s not open now, requires thinking not in terms of current entities but in terms of loops.

Professors Lehana Thabane, Megan Brickley, Parminder Raina and Hendrik Poinar will be formally recognized at Spring convocation ceremonies.

Countries and companies are bracing for far-reaching and long-term economic effects long after the Strait of Hormuz reopens, Behrouz Bakhtiari says.