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Universities eligible for $51B infrastructure fund

The Build Communities Strong Fund, announced in this month’s budget, is the first long-term federal infrastructure program open to post-secondary institutions.
News Research

Post-secondary leaders express mixed reactions to Budget 2025

Cuts to international study permits raise alarm, research investments welcomed.
News Students

Budget proposes more than $1B for student and youth employment

Funds also promised for TMU med school, Inuit Nunangat University.
News Budget

Budget cuts international student permit targets by 49 per cent in 2026

Carney government also proposes $1.7 billion to recruit international researchers.

Opinion Hiring

Trading tenure for Timbits

Everything you didn’t know about relocating to Canada.
Opinion Teaching

The Slow Professor ages well

The recently published 10th anniversary edition adds new material to this classic text.
Opinion Equity

The Mintz Report is wrong on EDI

Demanding ‘institutional neutrality,’ Alberta’s report on the post-secondary system risks silencing equity.
Opinion Policy

Responding to the global displacement crisis

A role for Canadian universities?

Feature articles Research

Science interrupted

How the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. science are derailing Canadian research.
Features Q&A

Meeting the moment together

Universities Canada’s new chair of the board of directors Joy Johnson on the path forward for higher education.
Features International students

Fostering inclusion on a multi-cultural campus

With an increasingly diverse student body, Canadian universities seek to make students feel at home.
Features Arts

Comrades in arms

The Canada-Korea theatrical collaboration, R;Link tells a story of soldiers’ friendships in the Korean War.

Career Advice Students

Creating student connection and belonging

Attention to student wellbeing includes fostering relationship-rich campus cultures.
Responsibilities May Include Teaching

Teaching experience in the academic job market

“Evidence of teaching effectiveness” adds to the ever-growing demands on graduate students.
Graduate Matters Research

More than a doctoral degree

My journey of research, volunteering and advocacy.
Career Advice Research funding

Answering the “So what?” in SSHRC applications

How to articulate the expected scholarly outcomes of your proposed research project.

Michelle Hahn-Baker & Sidney Leggett

Michelle Hahn-Baker is a 2022 McCall MacBain Scholar who is pursuing a master’s degree in geography. Sidney Leggett is a 2022 McCall MacBain Scholar who is pursuing a master’s of science in epidemiology.

Career Advice Advice

Telling the story of who you are through a scholarship application

Current recipients of the McCall MacBain Scholarship share tips and experiences from the application process.

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Michelle Hahn-Baker & Sidney Leggett
June 07, 2023

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Budget proposes more than $1B for student and youth employment

Budget cuts international student permit targets by 49 per cent in 2026

Trading tenure for Timbits

The Slow Professor ages well

The Mintz Report is wrong on EDI

Responding to the global displacement crisis

Science interrupted

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Fostering inclusion on a multi-cultural campus

Comrades in arms

Creating student connection and belonging

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Michelle Hahn-Baker & Sidney Leggett

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