By Richard Watts. A new literature is arising, born in the refugee experience of dislocation instead of geographically stable cultures, a Vancouver Island University English professor says. More...
30 août 2016
30 août 2016
Assyrian brother and sister fled Syria and got scholarships to London's Western University
By Dale Carruthers. Fleeing their war-torn village in Syria, Nineb Yousef and his sister Ninwe left their family, friends, home and middle-class life behind.
But the siblings made sure to pack their high school transcripts, knowing the documents would be their ticket to a better future in Canada.
Ten months later and more than 9,000 kilometres travelled, Nineb and Ninwe are two of 10 Syrian refugees selected for all-expenses-paid scholarships at Western University. More...
30 août 2016
Which Universities Are Most Generous to Refugees
By Joe McCarthy. Going to college can feel like living in a bubble — you’re usually surrounded by like-minded people, you take a range of theoretical classes, your needs are, for the most part, met without much effort, and you’re not always connected to issues in the broader society. More...
30 août 2016
Open letter regarding U of T partnerships - Faculty comment on U of T "three priorities" in letter sent to the president
On June 7, 2016 The University of Toronto News published an article entitled, “Parks, planning and public spaces: Toronto can learn lessons from Jerusalem say U of T students.” Reporting on a recent field course that took urban studies students to Jerusalem, the article celebrates the apparently innovative approach the city takes to urban planning, heralding it as a model for Toronto. More...
30 août 2016
Ban Ki-moon praises Canada's openness to refugees during visit to Calgary
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his gratitude Friday for Canada's response to the refugee crisis, praising citizens who extended "caring, warm hands" to people who had nowhere else to go.
In a speech at the University of Calgary, Ban said he was grateful for the "generous and compassionate" commitment of the Canadian government to resettle tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. More...
30 août 2016
Indigenous students get early glimpse of grad school life
Intensive summer program pairs 22 indigenous students from across Canada with researchers at McMaster University.
Growing up on a reserve on Manitoulin Island, Shanna Peltier thought her dream of going to grad school would remain just that — a dream.
But that dream is now a little closer to reality thanks to a summer program at McMaster University that gives indigenous students from across Canada an early taste of graduate school life. More...
30 août 2016
University of Toronto hires new librarian to focus on indigenous issues
By May Warren. New role part of an effort to include more indigenous voices at the school.
Students at the University of Toronto will soon be able to check out more indigenous books and other materials from the school’s library. More...
30 août 2016
Ontario's reforms won't solve campus sex assault, according to scathing new report obtained by Metro
By Rosemary Westwood. Publicly appointed investigators have dealt a scathing rebuke to the province's widely lauded new law, which other provinces have sought to emulate.
If you had any doubt that Canadian universities are woefully ill-equipped and objectively ineffective at dealing with sexual violence, we now have research to prove it. More...
30 août 2016
University of Calgary Students’ Union launches Open Educational Resources campaign
By Helen Pike. Open Educational Resources aren’t your traditional textbook. They’re easily accessible and free to use licensed documents and have been adopted by some post-secondary educators as an alternative to books. But the practice isn’t quite mainstream yet, and hasn’t been widely adopted in Alberta. More...
30 août 2016
University of Calgary planning inclusive change facilities
By Helen Pike. U of C fitness change rooms are assigned as female or male with no private change areas for families or individuals who don't identify with either gender.
Motivation to hit the gym can be hard enough, and we often find excuses not to go. For some it’s time, for others it can be exhaustion from the day to day – but for the University of Calgary’s queer population it’s the change facilities. More...
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