By Rees Kassen. A new sense of optimism among scientists prevailed with the promise of a government committed to evidence-based decision-making. A Nobel Prize for Canadian physicist Art McDonald seemed only to reinforce the feeling that Canadian science was set to make a comeback. Researchers across the country did happy dances in their labs, the promise of “sunny ways” ringing among the test tubes and pipettes. More...
By Radio Active. The University of Alberta newspaper, The Gateway, is halting a century-old tradition by ending its weekly print edition and moving its focus online.
The weekly newspaper has been in production since 1910. More...
By Gareth Hampshire. A parent in the Sturgeon School Division is raising questions about how grants that follow indigenous students are being spent by the school board. More...
A UBC proposal to create an alternative, low carbon endowment investment fund is not sitting well with UBC students and faculty who voted overwhelmingly in favour of fossil fuel divestment last year. More...
Students notified by professor that university has cut budget for program in 2016-17 academic year. More...
By Danielle S. McLaughlin. Is there a difference between putting pressure on government and on a non-governmental agency? And what, for these purposes, IS government? Should a university, which guarantees academic and artistic freedom, capitulate to pressure put on it by a generous donor? Should an activist organization make policy decisions based upon what may or may not appeal to funders? Should a political party. More...
Two of Manitoba's major universities are approaching indigenous education very differently and that's the topic of debate on Thursday.
Last spring the University of Winnipeg approved a motion making it mandatory for students to take at least one indigenous studies course to graduate. More...
By Tom Spears. A generation that grew up on computers can now type faster than it can think — with bad results.
Typing fast doesn’t just cause typos, the University of Waterloo found. It also allows students to write before they formulate their ideas fully.
In other words, fast typing undermines the content of their writing. More...
By Louise Brown. Raigelee Alorut, an Inuit grandmother, is among the aboriginal university grads joining a campaign urging indigenous people to get a higher education. More...
By May Warren. Angelique EagleWoman did not get her full name until she was 15.
In her Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe, one of the Dakota Nations, children are given nicknames at birth and receive their formal names as teenagers, when their true character is revealed. More...
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