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Universities honour veterans and highlight the importance of peace

From the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia, Canadian universities will pause to reflect on Remembrance Day.
News Discovery Inc.

From bright idea to commercial partnership

How a University of Guelph grad student’s interest in immunology led to healthier cattle herds.
News Students

Ontario university students protest OSAP changes

Cuts to grants and rising cost of living put the squeeze on student finances.
News Budget

Budget 2026 provides small investment in post-secondary sector

Budget 2026 invests in defence innovation, emerging technologies and research commercialization.

Opinion Hiring

Global Canadians, Invisible at Home

If internationally educated scholars are considered an asset, why do we pay so little attention to Canadians who acquire that same experience abroad?
Opinion Accessibility

An accessible campus is only part of a university’s responsibility

Universities must embed disability knowledge into core professional learning.
Opinion Artificial intelligence

Faculty well-being in the age of GenAI

When every student has an AI assistant, the writing teacher's job becomes both harder and more essential.
Opinion EDI

Committee’s EDI recommendations are based on flawed logic

Excellence must be sufficiently rigorous and inclusive to identify talent wherever it exists.

Features Campus news

Portraits of a human library

At the University of Ottawa's human library, stereotypes melt away in conversation with people from unfamiliar backgrounds and life experiences.
Features EDI

Merveille Moungang Djifo: Advocate for a new generation of Black doctors

The recipient of the 2025 Black Physicians of Canada Leadership Award, Merveille Moungang Djifo is dedicated to improving equity in medicine.
Features Research

The Nuisance Variable

Two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients in Canada are women. Why does research still treat them as an afterthought?
Features Policy

Quebec universities: 60 years of change

From the Quiet Revolution to the present day, universities have profoundly transformed Quebec society. As a provincial election rapidly approaches, we reflect on their changing mission over six decades of often tense history.

Career Advice Teaching

How to develop a teaching-focused career at Canadian post-secondary institutions

Diverse paths, shared wisdom.
Career Advice Students

Thinking about Harvard?

The Frank Knox Fellowship could fund your graduate studies.
Career Advice Retirement

Finding my family in retirement

Academic research experience comes in handy when tracking down ancestral geneaology.
Career Advice Writing

How to get published when your reviewers don’t get it

New theoretical approaches often encounter editorial skepticism.

The University Affairs Newsletter

Keeping Canada’s university community informed, inspired and connected

Audrey Pridham

Audrey Pridham is a Carleton University journalism student and an intern at University Affairs.

News Artificial intelligence

Art schools grapple with AI

Creative arts among the first and hardest-hit by powerful new tech.

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Audrey Pridham
May 04, 2026
News International students

No more ‘soft touch’ on student visa fraud, IRCC vows

New technology and better enforcement will pre-emptively deter rule-breakers, deputy minister says.

by
Audrey Pridham
April 22, 2026

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