Headlines for Aug. 28, 2018

Ottawa Business Journal
Ottawa universities, colleges working to boost employment levels of graduates with disabilities
The David C. Onley Initiative for Employment and Enterprise Development is a two-year, $5-million pilot project funded by Ontario’s Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
CTV
Canadian universities, colleges working to Indigenize programs, campus life
This summer some post-secondary institutions sought to make changes they say address a legacy of colonialism and respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report from 2015.
CTV
‘We need to be prepared’: York University students to carry naloxone kits for frosh week
Student leaders at York University are preparing for frosh week by receiving training in how to administer naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote.
Saskatoon StarPhoneix
Young Innovators: U of S launches device into near-space to track climate change
The launch is part of the agency’s STRATOS program, which gives universities and industry the opportunity to test devices in the high atmosphere.
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