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Each year, the prestigious Canada Gairdner Awards honour the world’s most innovative and accomplished researchers whose groundbreaking contributions to the treatment of disease and the alleviation of human suffering advance global health.
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Cat scans: Canadian scientists found an adorable new way to study cat brain activity
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Alberta announces new funding to attract doctors, paramedics to rural and remote locations
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Opinion: We don’t need no education: How Canada’s broken university system holds us back
Higher education is the main path to middle-class life, economic productivity, innovation, and a healthy democratic society.
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International students in Canada are facing major challenges to their mental wellbeing in the face of policy changes that are only intensifying public hostility towards them.
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Alberta announces new funding to attract doctors, paramedics to rural and remote locations
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