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16 décembre 2016

Culturally relevant mentoring benefits aboriginal students, study finds

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "metronews.ca"By Colin Perkel. Indigenous students coached by aboriginal mentors appear to do better at school and be mentally healthier than their non-mentored peers, a new Canadian study indicates. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

How women dominate the country’s most powerful advisory council — the one that pulls Canada’s economic strings

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "financialpost.com logo"By Peter Kuitenbrouwer. With its stone chimneys and wooden verandas in the Queen Anne Revival style, the house that Thomas Willson, the Ontario inventor and industrialist, built on 
a cliff overlooking Meech Lake north of Ottawa a century ago is a grand, rustic 
summer estate. In the middle of May, the house, now federally owned, welcomed 
a gathering worthy of its grandeur. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

Polytechnique massacre remembered by staff, students: 'Still incomprehensible'

Montreal Gazette					HomepageBy Jason Magder. On the anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, the focus of women’s groups across the province was curbing violence aimed at aboriginal women.
The anniversary marked the last of 12 days of action against violence toward women, and this year was particularly poignant as it came only weeks after Crown prosecutors announced no police officers will be charged in connection with allegations that Sûreté du Québec officers physically and sexually assaulted several aboriginal women in Val-d’Or. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

Ottawa announces plans to fast-track visas and work permits for skilled foreign workers

Our LondonBy Roger Belgrave. The federal government used a fast-growing Mississauga biopharmaceutical company as the backdrop to announce plans to accelerate the visa and work permit process for highly-skilled sought after foreign workers and companies willing to make major job-creating investments in Canada. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

Should Canadian universities ban relationships between profs and students?

cbc masthead logoBy Maryse Zeidler. U.S. universities like Stanford and Harvard have banned them — will Canadian universities follow suit?
It's a common cliché: the worldly professor who charms and mesmerizes his adoring young student. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

University teachers threaten to censure Niagara College over its Saudi campuses

cbc masthead logoBy Samantha Craggs. An association of university teachers is threatening to censure Niagara College if it doesn't address concerns over its Saudi Arabia campuses. But the Welland, Ont., school says it's still committed to what it's doing there. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

Hungry students flocking to campus food banks

cbc masthead logoBy Amanda Pfeffer. Some 40 per cent of Canadian students face food insecurity, says report. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

University scrambles to help student teachers as work-to-rule looms

cbc masthead logoBy Blair Rhodes. Looming job action by the Nova Scotia Teachers Union could cause serious problems for student teachers scheduled to begin their classroom practicums. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

Medical students face 'alarmingly high' rate of depression, study finds

cbc masthead logoBy Kas Roussy. Medical students are at high risk for depression and suicidal ideation, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more...
16 décembre 2016

University of Toronto surpasses $2-billion mark in fundraising campaign

Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy VICTORIA GIBSON. The University of Toronto has surpassed $2-billion in donations to its Boundless fundraising campaign in the last five years — and on Thursday raised its target to $2.4-billion. Though the number is unremarkable by American postsecondary campaign benchmarks, it’s an anomaly in Canada. Read more...
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