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New U of A program helps under-represented students who seek health-care careers
Yasmin Rafiei hopes to get low-income and Indigenous students interested in health care.
Ottawa Citizen
York University scraps ‘College Master’ academic title to cut association to discrimination and racism
As of Jan. 1, academic leaders of York’s eight colleges — Bethune, Calumet, Founders, McLaughlin, New, Stong, Vanier and Winters — will be known as “College Heads.”
Globe and Mail
Montreal seeks to lead responsible artificial-intelligence research
Computer scientists, researchers, lawyers and other techies have been attending biweekly meetings in Montreal to discuss life’s big questions – as they relate to our increasingly intelligent machines.
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We must do more now to prepare young people for the future of work
We’ll need employers, governments or creative outlets, to recognize that we’re moving from a jobs economy to a skills economy, writes RBC president and CEO Dave McKay.
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