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    Parliamentary committee urges stronger support for research in French

    Granting agencies should consider funding targets specifically for French-language projects, the Standing Committee on Science and Research recommends.

  • News EDI

    Remove EDI from research funding decisions, parliamentary committee says

    The Standing Committee on Science and Research says ‘discriminatory’ EDI policies are ‘weakening the quality of Canadian research’.

  • News Teaching

    Good medicine: new programs train country doctors 

    Université de Montreal follows Queen’s prescription to heal the shortage of family physicians in rural areas.

  • News Quebec elections

    Universities struggle to be heard in Quebec election

    In a campaign dominated by the U.S. trade war and the soaring cost of living, universities assert their continued importance.

  • Opinion EDI

    Committee’s EDI recommendations are based on flawed logic

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

  • Opinion Arts

    Building resilience in Arts through interdisciplinary collaborations

    In a technology-enabled future, Arts faculties have an opportunity to demonstrate their relevance by making collaboration across disciplines easier and more visible.

  • Opinion Research

    Science in French? Bien sûr!

    As English dominates the publication landscape, support for French-language research is a strategic investment in the quality, equity and the future of knowledge.

  • Opinion Academic freedom

    Why Canadian academics shouldn’t boycott U.S. conferences

    Show up in person and do good trouble instead.

  • Features Students

    The hidden problem of student homelessness

    As high rents push more students into precarious housing, it's time to stop romanticizing the 'poor scholar'.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Career Advice Research

    From doctoral student to entrepreneur

    Resources abound to help you turn your PhD research into a business startup.

  • Career Advice Indigenous

    Internationalizing Truth And Reconciliation through multilingual storytelling

    Faculty share stories in their home and heart languages in the University of the Fraser Valley’s Leq'áleq’el Video Series.

  • Career Advice Writing

    Show it clearly: illustrating a report for your community partners

    Part II: How to design figures that tell your story.

  • Career Advice Mental Health

    Life lessons from the World Happiness Report

    Happiness is a gift for elders to pass on to the younger generation.

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