By Paige Desmond. Waterloo council agreed to back students concerned they're being taken advantage of by developers.
"The current climate of student housing in Waterloo is a little bit alarming," Sarah Wiley told councillors Monday.
Wiley is vice-president of education for the University of Waterloo Federation of Students, which represents undergraduate students at the school.
She said students are a vulnerable population being abused and manipulated in the student housing market. More...

By Evan Osenton. At the University of Calgary you can attend classes in the Canadian Natural Resources Limited Engineering Complex. Lectures are given in the ConocoPhillips, Progress Energy and Encana theatres. You can take books out of a Petro-Canada sponsored library. And when you need a break—perhaps from oil and gas logos—you can relax in the BMO Financial Group Forum (a.k.a. some couches at the end of Scurfield Hall). More...

In the carrot and stick that is government funding, the federal Liberals have been talking nice about science and research, while proposed reforms have irked researchers and funding has dried up, leading to layoffs or closures in dozens of labs across the country. More...

By Madeline Ashby. Rape culture exists.
These are the three little words that administrators at Carleton University are having such trouble including in their sexual violence policy. The university, like all other Ontario universities and colleges, is responsible for writing the stand-alone sexual violence policy before January, in compliance with the Sexual Violence and Workplace Harassment Action Plan, also known as Bill 132. The aim of the bill is to support survivors and stop sexual violence and harassment. More...

Algonquin College is ending its operations in Saudi Arabia, citing financial reasons. What it didn’t point to – though it should have been a major factor in the decision – is the gross human rights record of the Saudi government and its treatment of women.
They were neither allowed to teach, nor attend, the campus in Jazan, a port city on the Red Sea. More...