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News Students

Kids with wealthy grandparents more likely to attend university

High-income grandparents can compensate for low-income parents in higher-ed access, a recent study shows.
News Students

Ottawa extends successful program to recruit French-speaking international students

Minority communities, universities, benefit from demographic boost of young francophones.
News Research

Ottawa announces 64 new research chairs in international talent attraction strategy

Top-tier researchers from 13 countries to join Canadian universities in first wave of appointments.
News Teaching

Level Up Learning

Amélie Vallières investigates how story-driven video games can support learning and build identity.

Opinion Academic freedom

It’s time to boycott U.S. conferences

As trade hostilities continue, we shouldn’t use taxpayers’ dollars to travel stateside.
Opinion Academic freedom

Rebuilding Jewish students’ trust in universities

As students return to campus, discussions of the Middle East conflict deserve a scholarly, responsible and robust treatment that recognizes antisemitism in all its forms.
Opinion Retirement

Mandatory retirement: the case against

Joe Norris argues that forcing academics to retire is a form of systemic violence.
Opinion Retirement

Mandatory retirement: the case in favour

Jamie Paris argues that guaranteed employment for life skews the age balance of the professorate while enabling the exploitation of early- and mid-career scholars.

Features Research

A bridge to human rights

IDRA scholarship winner Karen Spring studies Central American communities seeking redress for harms caused by major development projects.
Features Research

Heat waves and brain waves

IDRA scholarship winner Tianqi Zhao studies climate change and mental health in South Africa.
Features Research

Take me to the river

IDRA scholarship winner Peter Duker studies community fishing practices in Thailand.
Features History

Two solitudes: Quebec Universities in WWII

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

Career Advice Students

The paradox of doctoral learning

Completing a PhD doesn’t mark the end of learning, but rather the loss of the illusion that learning ever ends.
Career Advice Administration

The secret to good labour relations

Two negotiators — one from a faculty association, one from a university administration — share their advice for building trust and achieving the common good.
Career Advice Mental Health

Teaching in the great outdoors

A unique creative writing class at the University of Toronto connects students to nature.
Career Advice Retirement

From scholar to loller

The joys of retiring early.

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Research funding

Opinion Academic freedom

It’s time to boycott U.S. conferences

As trade hostilities continue, we shouldn’t use taxpayers’ dollars to travel stateside.

by
Daniel Stockemer
September 08, 2026
Feature articles Research

Science interrupted

How the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. science are derailing Canadian research.

by
Brian Owens
November 12, 2025
Opinion Research funding

Narrative CVs put researchers front and centre

New format is a vast improvement over the old Canadian Common CV.

by
Cynthia Vincent
October 09, 2025
Ask Dr. Editor

NSERC Discovery grants

Peer reviewers’ perspectives

by
Letitia Henville
July 29, 2025
Career Advice Research funding

CIHR Project Grants

Peer reviewers’ perspectives

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Letitia Henville
June 24, 2025

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