Carleton University

Located in the nation’s capital, Carleton University is a dynamic research and teaching institution with a tradition of leading change. Its internationally recognized faculty, staff and researchers provide more than 30,000 full- and part-time students from every province and more than 100 countries around the world with academic opportunities in more than 65 programs of study, including public affairs, journalism, film studies, engineering, high technology, and international studies. Carleton’s creative, interdisciplinary and international approach to research has led to many significant discoveries and creative works in science and technology, business, governance, public policy and the arts. As an innovative institution Carleton is uniquely committed to developing solutions to real-world problems by pushing the boundaries of knowledge and understanding daily.

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Affleurement de roches vieilles d’environ 4,16 milliards d’années dans la ceinture de roches vertes de Nuvvuagittuq, dans le nord-est du Canada. (Jonathan O'Neil via AP)

Les plus vieilles roches de la Terre ont plus de quatre milliards d’années et ont été retrouvées au Québec

Des roches datant de la première période de l’échelle géologique ont été retrouvées au Québec. Il s’agit de certains des matériaux terrestres les plus anciens jamais datés par les scientifiques.
Autrefois stigmatisés et illégaux, les psychédéliques connaissent actuellement un regain d'intérêt et sont utilisés à des fins thérapeutiques. (Shutterstock)

Les psychédéliques sont détournés de leur usage traditionnel par l'industrie médicale, et ce n'est pas pour le mieux

Nous assistons à une médicalisation des psychédéliques. De nombreux problèmes sont présentés comme pouvant être traités par ces substances. L'industrie médicale en a pris le contrôle.
Ilustração do recém-descoberto “Sphyragnathus tyche”: ao contrário de outras espécies da época, este tipo de peixe predador usava os dentes de trás para para perfurar e capturar as presas. Imagem: C. Wilson

Descoberta casual de fóssil de 350 milhões de anos revela um novo tipo de peixe predador antigo

Uma espécie recém-descoberta de peixe predador antigo lança luz sobre como os primeiros peixes com barbatanas raiadas desenvolveram novas formas de se alimentar.
An outcropping of about 4.16 billion-year-old rocks at the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada. (Jonathan O'Neil via AP)

The oldest rocks on Earth are more than four billion years old

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the oldest terrestrial materials dated by scientists.
People shop at a Loblaws store in Toronto. A collaborative approach to ending food insecurity needs a serious commitment from the federal government. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council: A collaborative approach to strengthening food systems

The Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council offers lessons for strengthening democracy and building participatory governance mechanisms in Canada and beyond.
Emily Lê and Daniel Beirne star in the film that sees director and multidisciplinary artist Sook-Yin Lee adapt the graphic memoir of her ex-lover, Chester Brown, for the screen. (Wilding Pictures & Hawkeye Pictures)

In Paying For It, ex-lovers reimagine friendship, family and the meaning of sex work

In ‘Paying For It,’ exes maintain their bond and their shared home, even as one dates a string of men and the other finds intimacy through sex work.
Once stigmatized and illegal, psychedelics are having a moment and being used for medical therapies. Big Pharma is moving quickly to capitalize on it, and years of community knowledge. (Shutterstock)

The rise of psychedelic capitalism: Work harder and be happy about it?

Psychedelics are marketed as a way for the general population to extract more work out of their already overworked lives, and to be happy about it in the process.
A woman kayaks near Pigeon Lake in central Ontario in 2021. Canada is rich in natural resources and freshwater, but those resources aren’t infinite. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Thornhill

‘Elbows up’ in Canada means sustainable resource development

Accelerated resource development in Canada should not burden future generations with environmental destruction.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney departs Edmonton, Alta., after making a campaign stop on in the province on the eve of the election. Carney has pledged to turn Canada into an ‘energy superpower’ and build projects faster. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Mark Carney wants to make Canada an energy superpower — but what will be sacrificed for that goal?

How can the Liberal Party’s energy ambitions support just and equitable energy transitions?
Police work the scene of a shooting at a pub that left 12 people injured, including six with gunshot wounds, in Toronto, in March 2025. Investigators said the gunmen appeared ‘young, professional, calm.’ THE CANADIAN PRESS/Arlyn McAdorey

How can Mark Carney reduce violent crime in Canada? Through prevention and youth outreach

Current crime-fighting proposals lack concrete, evidence-based actions and proven public health strategies that are known to significantly and cost-effectively reduce violent crime.
Hundreds of residents of Mombasa, Kenya, cross a new floating foot bridge in March 2021 that was constructed by the Kenya National Highway Authority through the China City Construction Company. (AP Photo/Gideon Maundu).

What Canada can learn from China on effectively engaging with Africa

To become a credible economic partner In Africa, Canada should learn from China on engaging with purpose and respect.
‘The White Lotus’ director Mike White arrives at the show’s Season 3 premiere on Feb. 10, 2025, in Los Angeles, and composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer arrives at the Emmy Awards in 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello and Mark Von Holden/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)

‘White Lotus’ music: When talented creators strive to realize their visions, differences and chattering can erupt

Differences between film directors or television producers and composers are not new. In traditional audiovisual collaboration, the composer falls under the leadership of the director or showrunner.
A digital billboard flashes a message in Kennedy Township, Pa., in March 2025. Canada is placing ads like these along highways in 12 states that voted for Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Canadians need to use the language of freedom in fighting American annexation

Canadian diplomatic efforts amid Canada-U.S. tensions should aim at convincing American citizens that the idea of annexing Canada is a betrayal of U.S. values

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