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Ryerson’s Eliza Chandler looks for what culture can do for disability that legislation can’t.
Few Canadian universities offer French-immersion programs, yet such programs abound at the primary and secondary levels. A new book looks at this scarcity and offers solutions to foster new programs.
Documentary-style series follows 10 students as they navigate campus and city life.
A national survey by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars highlights challenges postdocs face in Canada.
Concordia University Press is Quebec’s first fully open access scholarly press to publish in both French and English.
“We have not been aggressive enough in our role in innovation,” says Richard Hawkins at the annual conference of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Simon Fraser University is overhauling its academic calendar. The crucial student resource, with its course schedules and important dates and deadlines, may not change substantially. But to Tara Black, a few subtle tweaks might have an immeasurable effect on the calendar’s primary users – starting with the tone. “It would be supportive versus punitive,” says […]
New name and logo are first steps in an ambitious business and marketing strategy.
International students “would make the best future Canadians,” says immigration minister.
After three years of quietly developing a model for collaboration in the classroom and on the recruiting trail, the presidents of four small, rural eastern Canadian universities have rebranded their efforts into what they are calling the “Maple League.” First coming together in 2013 under the less catchy banner of the “U4,” Acadia, Bishop’s, Mount […]
The region loses 1,300 people aged 20-29 each year.
Public must recognize academic freedom as readily as freedom of expression, says retired Concordia professor recently detained in Iran.
At University of Waterloo’s Hack the North, 1,000 students compete to create a new program or project in a gruelling 36-hour contest.
A surge in allegations of sexual violence and hyper-sexualized frosh activities have, in part, inspired the study.
Eden Hennessey focuses on the positive in her latest interactive artwork at Laurier.
New rainbow staircase is a symbol of queer-positivity at Nanaimo campus.
Consent Tea brings a spoonful of Downton Abbey to sexual health education.
The member universities of Universities Canada have approved a new bylaw that the organization says will ensure that their institutions’ policies are not discriminatory. Members were asked to support a requirement that their institutions commit to “equal treatment of all persons without discrimination” on the basis of a series of “protected grounds.” It means members […]
Gord Downie’s last tour with the Tragically Hip was far from his last act. The singer and Canadian music icon has partnered with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba to pay tribute to the thousands of indigenous children who went missing in the residential school system and who died […]