By Don Butler. Eight years after graduating with university bachelor degrees in 2005, males were earning $27,300 more on average than females who graduated at the same time with the same degrees, says a comprehensive new study. More...
30 août 2016
30 août 2016
Bail revoked for Toronto man convicted of sexually assaulting fellow grad student
By . A Toronto man convicted in a high-profile sexual assault case is going to jail after a judge revoked his bail. More...
30 août 2016
Canada’s high-tech bigger than thought, report finds
By . Canada’s high-tech sector is much bigger than thought, extending beyond just information and communications technology to play a greater role in the overall economy, a new report says. More...
30 août 2016
Appreciating the sound of a quiet campus town - A reflection on quiet campus summers
By . Tall grass grows over red Solo cups, chalk drawings replace vomit on sidewalks and furrowed brows turn into sunburned foreheads — these are the signs summer has arrived on small-town university campus. More...
30 août 2016
Carleton grad makes history as first African with a disability accepted to Oxford
By Haley Ritchie. Disabilities rights advocate Eddie Ndopu was born in South Africa and outlived a diagnosis that said he wouldn’t live past the age of five – but he says it was Ottawa that made him the person he is today.
And today, the 25-year-old is making history: He is the first African with a disability to be accepted to the University of Oxford. More...
30 août 2016
Behavioural changes could help diagnose dementia early, new research shows
A Canadian researcher is proposing a different way of diagnosing dementia at the earliest stage yet: not from patients’ disappearing memory but from their change in behaviour. More...
30 août 2016
Pokemon Go could help people with depression conquer 'barriers': UBC prof
By Graham Slaughter. Several recent headlines have captured an array of misadventures associated with Nintendo’s latest smartphone craze: “Men fall off cliff playing Pokemon Go”; “Florida man shoots Pokemon Go players”; “Man walks on Toronto subway playing Pokemon Go.” More...
30 août 2016
NB tuition program for lower income families violates charter rights: lawyer
A lawyer in New Brunswick says he's filing a constitutional challenge against a provincial program that provides bursaries to university and college students from lower income families. More...
30 août 2016
Ryerson celebrates success of Syrian sponsorship challenge
By . A year after its launch, the university’s refugee resettlement effort raised $4.5 million, formed 102 sponsorship groups and supported 150 refugee families. More...
30 août 2016
Gay, lesbian and bisexual youth more likely to have eating disorders: study
By Camille Bains. Gay, lesbian and bisexual youth are continuing to purge, fast or take diet pills to lose weight while rates for such behaviour among heterosexuals have decreased, a University of British Columbia study says.
The study said that in 2013, lesbians were twice as likely to report purging and fasting than they were in 1999. For that year, the prevalence of purging among bisexual girls, at 33 per cent, was higher than for lesbians, at 22 per cent, but stayed nearly the same in 2013, when it jumped to 36 per cent for lesbians girls. More...
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