Headlines for Oct. 16, 2018
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Editorial: Watching Canada’s experiment with legal cannabis
Given the known and unknown health hazards of cannabis, any increase in use of recreational cannabis after legalization, whether by adults or youth, should be viewed as a failure of this legislation.
CBC
University of Regina withdraws controversial tenure proposals from bargaining table
University says it values tenure as essential to academic freedom.
Globe and Mail
East Coast business students get a taste of startup life
East Coast business students are tapping into Venture for Canada, a not-for profit founded in 2013 to recruit, train and partly subsidize recent graduates to work for two years at startups typically cash-strapped but hungry for young talent.
Regina Leader-Post
University of Saskatchewan partners with First Nation on climate change research
Earlier this month, a monitoring station was installed on land belonging to the Okanese First Nation, which will record and share data on temperature, rainfall, humidity, air pressure and wind.
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