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ChatGPT prompting some professors to rethink how they grade students
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Strikes at two Atlantic universities tied to chronic underfunding: unions
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The Official Opposition called on the federal government Monday to ban research partnerships with Chinese military scientists and issue a ministerial order to advise provinces and Canadian universities to do the same.
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