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UBC barred from Vancouver Pride after hosting ‘transphobic’ speaker
UBC hosted a speech titled “The Erosion of Freedom: How Transgender Politics in School and Society is Undermining Our Freedom and Harming Women & Children” by Jenn Smith on June 23.
Ottawa Citizen
A DNA kit from Guelph researchers can help identify food fraud at home
University of Guelph researchers developed LifeScanner to enable people to identify species around them.
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Essential services ruling helped shape U of S contract offer: CUPE President
The tentative offer includes a new defined benefit pension plan and salary increases for 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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City supports continued effort to quell street parties in Kingston
The University District Safety Initiative, unveiled a year ago, was meant to give police new authority to enforce the city’s nuisance party bylaw.
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