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News EDI

Scarborough Charter faces headwinds

Anti-racism group steps up efforts amid budget cutbacks, EDI backlash.
News Research

Federal $29M fund embeds PhDs and post-docs into tech firms

Talent Innovation Canada receives promised funding to match grad students with companies to develop new technologies.
News International students

Cuban students and scholars desperately await improvement amid continued blockade

Canada-Cuba relations expert Karen Dubinsky warns mood among Cuban colleagues continues to decline.
News Students

Red Alert!

Students tackle underground rescue scenarios as Laurentian University hosts the Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Response Competition.

Opinion International students

The dangers of over-securitization

Are Canadian universities losing out on valuable transnational education opportunities with China?
Opinion Climate Change

UBC student mobilizes climate advocacy to drive change

Sadie Vipond, a plaintiff in the country’s landmark youth climate lawsuit, is urging universities to prepare students to meet the realities of a warming world.
Opinion Arts

It’s time for philosophy to regain its rightful place

With an influence that extends to nearly every intellectual domain, philosophy is indispensable to the mission of a university.
Opinion Research

Getting research out of the lab: supporting the “Third Mission” of Canadian universities

Nationally consistent express licences can unlock untapped value in Canadian universities.

Features History

Two solitudes: Quebec Universities in WWII

Historical researcher explores English-French divide over Second World War.
Features Policy

Northern Shift

The alarming rise of far-right movements in Canada.
Features History

How social movements shape Canadian universities

A history of clashes, challenges, and lessons learned.
Features Indigenous

U the North

Working together with Inuit, First Nations and Métis, university researchers are bolstering sovereignty and improving living conditions in the Arctic.

Career Advice Equity

Breaking through the “A” track

A woman’s guide to academic leadership.
Career Advice Advice

Learn when to say no… and yes!

How to strike your own balance between ambition, institutional expectations, and personal limits.
Career Advice Students

PhD studies: perception vs reality

How do I tell my friends and family about what I really do as a doctoral student?
Career Advice Writing

Dr. Editor’s summer reading list

Five books to improve your academic writing.

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Career Advice Students

PhD studies: perception vs reality

How do I tell my friends and family about what I really do as a doctoral student?

by
Mehak Kapur
May 07, 2026
Opinion Research

Rethinking academia’s role in innovation

Why Canadian universities need to better support scholar-innovators to catalyze academic entrepreneurship.

by
Tohid Didar and Leyla Soleymani
July 10, 2025

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