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  • News Budget

    Ontario unis avoid fiscal abyss, still anticipate cuts

    Universities relish a multi-billion-dollar provincial infusion, but budgeting remains frugal for 2026-27.

  • News EDI

    Scarborough Charter faces headwinds

    Anti-racism group steps up efforts amid budget cutbacks, EDI backlash.

  • News Research

    Federal $29M fund embeds PhDs and post-docs into tech firms

    Talent Innovation Canada receives promised funding to match grad students with companies to develop new technologies.

  • News International students

    Cuban students and scholars desperately await improvement amid continued blockade

    Canada-Cuba relations expert Karen Dubinsky warns mood among Cuban colleagues continues to decline.

  • Opinion Policy

    Science must become a pillar of Canadian foreign policy

    With technological developments reshaping global governance, science cannot remain isolated from international relations.

  • Opinion International students

    The dangers of over-securitization

    Are Canadian universities losing out on valuable transnational education opportunities with China?

  • Opinion Climate Change

    UBC student mobilizes climate advocacy to drive change

    Sadie Vipond, a plaintiff in the country’s landmark youth climate lawsuit, is urging universities to prepare students to meet the realities of a warming world.

  • Opinion Arts

    It’s time for philosophy to regain its rightful place

    With an influence that extends to nearly every intellectual domain, philosophy is indispensable to the mission of a university.

  • Features History

    Two solitudes: Quebec Universities in WWII

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

  • Features Policy

    Northern Shift

    The alarming rise of far-right movements in Canada.

  • Features History

    How social movements shape Canadian universities

    A history of clashes, challenges, and lessons learned.

  • Features Indigenous

    U the North

    Working together with Inuit, First Nations and Métis, university researchers are bolstering sovereignty and improving living conditions in the Arctic.

  • Career Advice Research

    How to hook an SSHRC postdoc grant 

    Two tips for a catchy opening that will make your proposal stand out.

  • Career Advice Equity

    Breaking through the “A” track

    A woman’s guide to academic leadership.

  • Career Advice Advice

    Learn when to say no… and yes!

    How to strike your own balance between ambition, institutional expectations, and personal limits.

  • Career Advice Students

    PhD studies: perception vs reality

    How do I tell my friends and family about what I really do as a doctoral student?

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