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Opinion: Are Canada’s medical schools failing in their purpose?
If you ask members of the public – or perhaps more importantly, members of provincial legislatures or the national Parliament – why they support medical schools, I am sure they would say: to produce doctors for our community.
London Free Press
Western bolsters COVID protocols for potential return to on-campus learning
Western University is strengthening its COVID-19 rules ahead of a possible return to in-person classes later this month.
InFONews
2 highrise towers to be ‘jewel-like centrepiece’ of UBCO’s downtown Kelowna campus
Kelowna-based Mission Group has submitted plans for two towers that will make up the three-tower UBC Okanagan downtown complex.
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Scholarships honour Flight 752 victims in Canada
Federal Canada has revealed a new range of scholarships, while Ontario will renew a scholarship fund, in memory of the victims of the Ukrainian International Airlines plane crash, two years after the tragedy.
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Headlines for February 28, 2025
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Headlines for February 27, 2025
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Headlines for February 26, 2025
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