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  • News Research funding

    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 Administration

    It Takes a Village

    University presidents require longer time in office and broad support from within and outside their institutions to confront today’s biggest challenges.

  • Opinion Artificial intelligence

    Gen Z meets genAI

    We are the first generation to learn alongside AI. What do we owe the next?

  • Opinion Indigenous

    Canada’s sovereignty is being tested

    As Canada faces mounting pressure from the United States, an Indigenous-led exhibition at the Gwangju Biennale offers a timely way to think about conflict, responsibility and the choices ahead.

  • Opinion Academic freedom

    It’s time to boycott U.S. conferences

    As trade hostilities continue, we shouldn’t use taxpayers’ dollars to travel stateside.

  • 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.

  • Features Research

    Take me to the river

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

  • 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.

  • Career Advice Artificial intelligence

    Can you spot an essay written by AI?

    Learn the common patterns, limitations, and clues that may reveal AI-generated writing.

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