Twice now, the small speakers’ series I co-host online has been “Zoom-bombed.” The series focuses on reproductive politics and has been running for a few years — a holdover from the proliferation of ...

As U.S. tariffs push Canadians to “build strength at home,” university students are facing some of the highest unemployment rates in more than a decade. Now that the 2025 federal budget has allocated ...

In July 2024, Nada, a Palestinian student living in the Gaza Strip, was admitted as a master’s student in the transportation and environmental engineering program at the University of Calgary. She has ...

It would be interesting to have some data on the demographics among the ever-growing number of directors, diversity and inclusion. My bet is that few are white, over 50 and male. A new unfair ...

For years, the inadequacy of the Canadian Common CV (or CCV for short) has been the subject of many Twitter vents, some of which are quite amusing, among the scientists who use it. There have been ...

La ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur du Québec, Danielle McCann, a déposé le 6 avril dernier le projet de loi 32 visant à protéger la liberté académique universitaire. Photo par La Presse ...

If you’ve been paying any attention to headlines this past year, you know that campus free speech is in the news. In Ontario, the Ford government has threatened to withhold provincial funding from any ...

Recently, researchers have noted the need for going beyond a focus on research as the main training element of graduate programs, and the necessity of including teaching skills for graduate students ...

As rental prices rise in many Canadian cities, students are finding it more difficult to secure affordable housing. One program is offering an alternative that is not only easier on student wallets, ...

One day, your days will run out. None of us truly know precisely how long we each have left to live, but every day we are each inexorably one day closer to our death: n-1. We lose sight of this truth ...

Convocation speeches hit differently this spring. The words of wisdom traditionally imparted to graduates often felt more like battle cries. University leaders are keenly aware of the creep of ...