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Jan 2, 2025 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Hardwick
A garden once thrived at the corner of 89th Street and 92nd Avenue in Edmonton. Every spring residents of the city’s Strathearn neighbourhood planted root vegetables in long rows and grew tomatoes out of old tires while rain barrels collected water. Every fall the community gathered to share in the bounty. Last year the garden was uprooted. The lot the garden stood on was sold for almost $600,000.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Hardwick
Drug liberalization reduced overdose rates in Europe. Why isn’t it working here?
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Christabel Choi |James Hardwick |Shubhi Bansal |
Graphical Abstract Acoustic Metamaterials In article number 2404093, Christabel Choi, Sriram Subramanian, and co-workers achieve continuous out-of-plane actuation >5 mm of objects using fluid-driven membrane-based actuation. Fluidic chip prototypes consisting of multi-layered channels are fully 3D-printed, with an elastomeric membrane attached to the surface, which is interfaced with acoustic metamaterial reflectors.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Hardwick
Across the street from a ceramics studio on Dundas Street in London, Ontario there’s an unassuming little clinic in a squat, grey building. Throughout the day people come and go from the cinderblock low-rise, attending their appointments and getting the care they need. They are accessing primary care, mental health resources, and a range of specialized programs from gender affirming care, to ongoing interventions for HIV, hepatitis, and diabetes.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Hardwick
If a person is using drugs, should the government force them to accept treatment? The recently re-elected premier of British Columbia, David Eby, thinks so. So does Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who has made forced treatment a centerpiece of her party’s approach to the province’s growing mental health and addiction crisis. Even federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has come out in support of involuntary treatment in some form.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Hardwick
Despite recent tremors in some corners of the housing market, prices remain far too high for both renters and buyers. This persistent lack of affordability is pushing families into precarity and homelessness, and it could cost the Liberals the next election. None of this is news, of course. Housing prices and rents have been and squeezing Canadian households for decades. This protracted disaster begs the question, why is nothing being done? The answer goes beyond simple neglect.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Hardwick
A government report on the national “housing price spiral” expresses concern over “the level of housing starts in Canda in relation to projected demand.” It observes that these supply-and-demand factors are contributing to the “inability of low-and middle-income Canadians to purchase their own homes.” It further comments on the problem of high interest rates, inflating utility costs, and “increases in the capital costs of construction.”This report could be describing the housing market in 2024.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Hardwick
It’s well understood that whether you rent or own, there’s a good chance someone is making mortgage payments on your home. What you may not know is that thanks to decades of government policy those monthly mortgage payments are likely to land in the pockets of oligarchs. Consider the following scenario. In exchange for a small portion of the value of your home the bank issued a loan which allowed you (or your landlord) to take possession of a property.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Christabel Choi |James Hardwick |Shubhi Bansal |
1 Introduction Acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) have been investigated for their extraordinary sound manipulation capabilities, to enable applications such as sound attenuation,[1, 2] sound focusing,[3-5] energy harvesting,[6] holography,[7] and acoustic levitation.[8-10] In particular, tunable, and reconfigurable AMMs[11-13] have been sought after for their operational flexibility and multifunctionality, e.g., focusing a beam, and steering it on-demand. Prat-Camps et.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Hardwick
“One-ee-and-ah-Two-ee-and-ah-Three-ee-and-ah-Four-”Mo counts time for a classroom of young people. They bounce up and down, not always to the rhythm Mo sets for them. Mo comes back to ‘one,’ gestures to the class and everyone starts playing a pop song by Imagine Dragons. Mo pauses to show a new student how to press the strings to the fretboard without cramping the muscles in her hand. Mo is a quick-witted, charming guitar teacher who can reliably make the children who come to his class laugh.
