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Ian Van Haren
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PhD Candidate - McGill U Sociology
Curious about migration, social policy, families, religion, higher education, refugee rights, demography & democracy. I share content that I find interesting.
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Indigenous fertility rates in Canada have begun to decline over the past decade. Only the Inuit have replacement level fertility among Indigenous peoples in the country.
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Indigenous fertility rates drop below replacement level
New data show Indigenous fertility rates have fallen below replacement level, reshaping communities and national demographics.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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After a long life together, an underlying tension remained. Interesting article.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...
My parents relished their English-French relationship. Things got tricky when they died
When the issue of who was going to be buried where popped up in their last years, the thought of them apart felt wrong but while love may break down barriers, certain things run deep
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October 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Nice @theglobeandmail.com op-ed: "let’s not lose track of our rich tradition of helping refugees".
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Ottawa narrows the private path for settling refugees
Canada’s renowned privately sponsored refugee program is worth keeping
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October 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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An interesting episode of the Daily on weight loss drugs and marital relationships: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/p...
Marriage and Sex in the Age of Ozempic
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October 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Bixi bike-sharing program among the top 25 inventions in 25 years, TIME Magazine declares
The list also includes the iPhone and the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Unfortunately, fewer Canadian companies are willing to respond to a survey about commitments they made to to have a more diverse workforce and leadership. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...
Five years after vowing to hire more Black employees, Bay Street’s enthusiasm for DEI is waning
In The Globe and Mail’s latest survey of BlackNorth signatories, far fewer companies responded to questions about their diversity progress than in prior years
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October 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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On driving in Beirut.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Opinion | The Chaos of Driving in Lebanon Tells a Story of a Country Unraveled
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October 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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US 25 year-olds who were married

In 1980: 63%
In 2021: 22%
https://pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/23/young-adults-in-the-u-s-are-reaching-key-life-milestones-later-than-in-the-past/
Young adults in the United States are reaching key life milestones later than they did 40 years ago, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. Adults who are 21 are less likely than their predecessors four decades ago to have reached five frequently cited milestones of adulthood: having a full-time job, being financially independent, living on their own, getting married and having a child. By the time they are 25, however, today’s young adults are somewhat closer to their predecessors in 1980 on two of these milestones: having a full-time job and financial independence. In 2021, the most recent year with available data, 39% of 21-year-olds were working full time, compared with 64% in 1980. And only a quarter of people this age in 2021 were financially independent of their parents – meaning that their income was at least 150% of the poverty line – compared with 42% in 1980.
September 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Lovely photos. I was fortunate to visit Burgeo last year but didn't get the chance to go to Francois or Grey River (or Ramea, though they have roads).

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Newfoundland’s last roadless villages offer lessons in survival
Residents in these small roadless outports work together for the community’s greater good
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September 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Entre pistes cyclables, arbres plantés et parcs-éponges, on dresse le bilan de ses deux mandats.
Quel est le véritable héritage vert de Valérie Plante pour Montréal?
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September 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Nuns on the run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...
The Plot to Free the Nuns
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September 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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VIA Rail’s regular dayliner passenger train service between Calgary and Edmonton ended 40 years ago today.

(Source: Edmonton Journal, September 6, 1985)
September 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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On the benefits of spending time outdoors - a lesson relevant for all ages.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...
Wanawī is Cree for ‘go outside’ – it’s a teaching we should learn alongside our kids
Interacting with the physical world stimulates curiosity and creativity; that’s why land-based education is such an effective tool
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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This article, about the preponderance of gay males in the extreme-right movement surrounding Trump, is both fascinating and also an extremely difficult form of journalism to produce. It reads light but McCreesh must have pulled teeth to get these on-record moments

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...
Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government
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August 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A touching reflection on names and identity in the context of family and marriage by Chidambarakumari Ponnambalam. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...
Ghosted by My Own Husband
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August 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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On alternatives to credit cards and the influence of the American financial sector, a nice article by Vass Bednar.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...
Who watches those who watch our payments? The growing power of credit card giants
Credit card companies are shaping markets and censoring content in the absence of government regulation
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Join us at the next Work and Family Researchers Network conference.

📅 When: June 17-20, 2026
📍Where:  Concordia University, Montreal
➡️Theme: Centering Care Across the Life Course
❗️Submission deadline: October 1, 2025

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2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference - Work and Family Researchers Network
ABOUT THE EVENT Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada.  More than 400 scholars and stakeholders will convene to discus...
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August 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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What makes a desirable spouse in China?

Our @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper (w/ Jia Yu, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, Yang Zhou & Yu Xie) draws on a national survey experiment to net out and examine mate preferences among unmarried Chinese & their roles in shaping assortative mating doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examines unmarried Chinese people's preferred characteristics of a spouse and how the preferences vary by gender and across socioeconomic groups. Background Extensive research.....
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August 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Un prof de français (avec un doctorat et 29 ans d'expérience) empêché de travailler au Québec à cause d'un manque de certification provinciale. Il a donc trouvé un travail en Ontario.

Reportage dans @lapresse.ca par Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot.

www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...
Il ira finalement enseigner… en Ontario !
« Enfin, on est réuni en famille ! »
www.lapresse.ca
August 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This report from @geoffreyyork.bsky.social describes how Russia is using influencers to recruit Africans to work in drone-manufacturing factories. A promise of a better life leads to dangerously manufacturing weapons for Russia's unjust war. Very sad.

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TikTok influencers apologize for campaign enticing South African women to drone-factory jobs in Russia
Russian-led campaign targeted women between the ages of 18 and 22 to work at a factory that produces military drones for Russia’s war against Ukraine
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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This is cool!
Discovering another moon with a clearer picture of what's happening far far away. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/s...
Uranus Was Hiding a Moon Outside Its Rings
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August 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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@nedasoc.bsky.social responds to living amid deportations, ICE seizures, and Israel’s attack on Tehran.
A Record of Vanishings: Neda Maghbouleh on the Stress Response of Seeing Iran Bombed
1 I finally learn how to record my phone screen to save my aunt’s Instagram story before it vanishes. The video opens on her silver Swatch, a date and time stamp: 28 Khordad (June 17, 2025), 12:10 …
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August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Nice explainer by @eidlin.bsky.social on the Air Canada strike from a historical perspective.
"if workers are to be told through repeated invocations of Section 107 that they can never strike, one may be precipitating the very thing one is trying to prevent."
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...
Ottawa’s Air Canada strike debacle shows it failed to learn from history
By ordering flight attendants back to work, the government may be stoking further labour unrest
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Blessures au travail : pourquoi les personnes immigrantes mettent plus de temps à guérir, par @daniel-cote.bsky.social

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Blessures au travail : pourquoi les personnes immigrantes mettent plus de temps à guérir
Blessées au travail, les personnes immigrantes font face à une double épreuve : guérir et se faire entendre dans un système qui peine à reconnaître leurs parcours.
theconversation.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM