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Say it plainly: Writing a report for your community partners

Question: I’m completing a multi-year participatory research project with a coalition of tenant advocates and precariously housed residents — some with professional backgrounds in law, policy, and community organizing; others bringing expertise rooted in lived experience. They’ve...
News Teaching

Level Up Learning

Amélie Vallières investigates how story-driven video games can support learning and build identity.
News Research

A look inside the hive: celebrating honey bee research at two Canadian universities

As MacEwan University marks 10 years of bees on campus, the University of Guelph kicked off the year by unveiling its newest centre for honey bee research.
News Research

Proposed Alto rail route slashes through Queen’s field biology station

Federal government praises the wilderness station as ‘globally unique,’ considers cleaving it with high-speed train.

Opinion Retirement

Mandatory retirement: the case in favour

Jamie Paris argues that guaranteed employment for life skews the age balance of the professorate while enabling the exploitation of early- and mid-career scholars.
Opinion Mental Health

When misconduct moves on

Universities need a fair way to share serious misconduct findings across institutions.
Opinion Mental Health

When misconduct disappears into university bureaucracy

Universities have procedures for misconduct, but too often lack the governance structures needed to see the patterns that emerge across sectors.
Opinion Artificial intelligence

AI in universities: the case in favour

Joël Blit argues integrating AI into curricula and pedagogy can make universities more human, not less.

Features Research

A bridge to human rights

IDRA scholarship winner Karen Spring studies Central American communities seeking redress for harms caused by major development projects.
Features Research

Heat waves and brain waves

IDRA scholarship winner Tianqi Zhao studies climate change and mental health in South Africa.
Features Research

Take me to the river

IDRA scholarship winner Peter Duker studies community fishing practices in Thailand.
Features History

Two solitudes: Quebec Universities in WWII

Historical researcher explores English-French divide over Second World War.

News Writing

Say it plainly: Writing a report for your community partners

Question: I’m completing a multi-year participatory research project with a coalition of tenant advocates and precariously housed residents — some with professional backgrounds in law, policy, and community organizing; others bringing expertise rooted in lived experience. They’ve...
Career Advice Retirement

Staying active — and activist — in retirement

People often ask me: why are you still doing all those professional things? Haven’t you “retired”? The underlying and well-meaning message is: why aren’t you relaxing more, travelling to faraway places, and binge-watching your favourite television shows? I...
Career Advice Career

The academic’s guide to pitching for podcast interviews

Three tips for snagging a spot on your favourite series.
Career Advice Artificial intelligence

Why are multiple-choice questions making a comeback?

Distinguishing the correct answer from plausible, but incorrect, alternatives sharpens students' skills in detecting AI slop.

Yves Gingras

Yves Gingras is a professor at Université du Québec à Montréal.

Opinion EDI

EDI in admissions and hiring: the case against

Yves Gingras argues that ‘equity, diversity and inclusion’ bureaucrats are practicing the art of intellectual confusion.

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Yves Gingras
August 05, 2026

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