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McGill standoff with protesters continues as administration considers options
A pro-Israel counter-demonstration led to a heavy police presence and tense campus environment.
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Harm reduction program at UBCO expands into Okanagan region
Drug-checking services will be provided by an interdisciplinary team of students at a variety of sites.
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U of Manitoba professor is helping kids explore their gender identity
Researcher Fenton Litwiller is developing youth recreation programming to support queer kids in acquiring skills that affirm their complex gender identities.
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A partnership with U of Ottawa’s med school aims to train more Inuit doctors
The collaboration between the university and the Government of Nunavut highlights the importance of culturally safe care.
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LGBTQ students at The King’s University host the Christian school’s first Pride Week
The celebration is just one way that LGBTQ students are affirming their identities at the faith-based campus.
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University-prison partnership brings hope to incarcerated learners
The educational initiative “was humanizing when every aspect of imprisonment is dehumanizing,” says a former participant.
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University botanical gardens and arboreta are more than just pretty places
Many of these campus gardens have become leaders in botanical education, horticultural research and conservation.
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Former international student uses art to celebrate his Canadian alma mater
In more than 4,000 paintings over 15 years, Brandon University stands out as a favourite subject of plein-air painter Weiming Zhao.
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King’s in Halifax launches scholarly inquiry into its possible ties to slavery
“Tackling these questions in an open, transparent and scholarly way is one of the things we’re doing to make ourselves more welcoming as a community to people of diverse racial backgrounds,” said King’s president.
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Why universities are stashing away seeds in sub-zero vaults
Seed banks are helping researchers resurrect plants from the past and create crops for the future.
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Canada’s engineering schools suffer from a lack of ‘potty parity’
A dearth of women’s washrooms in our outdated engineering buildings leaves female students scrambling.
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A new app co-created at UNB aims to revitalize the Wolastoqey language
“There is a sense of pride, a sense of continued resilience in language learning,” says coordinator at the University of New Brunswick’s Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre.
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Harm reduction policies gain favour on campuses
Shifting attitudes around drug use are changing the way universities address the opioid crisis.
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One research centre’s canny solution to specimen overstock
Making lunch out of research leftovers.
