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We are publishing regular updates on the situation facing Canada’s universities with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With a Coast Salish design and modern fit, the new academic robes honour Kim Baird, the first Indigenous woman to serve as chancellor at the institution.

Tackling racism isn’t a ‘flash-in-the-pan kind of thing,’ says the head of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing.

“Let us begin our time together by vowing to support each other while we do the hard work of challenging the status quo,” says faculty of law dean Donna Young.

The vital role these two programs continue to play in Canada’s research landscape highlights the vision of those who pushed to create them two decades ago.

Latest review by Universities Canada of its member institutions also catalogues efforts towards reconciliation.

The university’s Teacher’s Pet profile series puts the spotlight on professors’ furry friends.

Money was disbursed quickly, researchers stepped up, but some adjustments had to be made along the way.

The Halifax institution will be the first university in Atlantic Canada to launch a tuition waiver program for students who were previously in the foster care system.

November 30, 2020 COVID-19 cases on campus Over the weekend, the Middlesex-London Health Unit updated the case count for an outbreak at University Hospital on the Western University campus. The latest numbers show 26 patients and 28 staff members have contracted the virus. The increase in cases has prompted the hospital to postpone non-urgent surgeries […]

The pandemic-related pause is meant to give students, staff and faculty extra time to prepare and rest up.

For Canada to succeed in curbing COVID-19, all communities need to succeed, says Brock University president and co-investigator Gervan Fearon.

Intimate partner violence, families with young children, people with disabilities and Indigenous mental health are among the many areas under investigation.

The new standard is especially important for those suffering in the midst of a pandemic, say its adherents.

Michael Houghton talks viruses, accelerated vaccine trials, and the importance of pursuing challenging areas of medicine.

Lancers Recover is one of the few collegiate recovery programs in Canada.

October 28, 2020 International students could be returning to N.S. in November Postsecondary institutions in Nova Scotia will likely be welcoming international students back to their campuses as early as the first week of November. The Government of Nova Scotia shared the news in a press release on Wednesday. The province says it anticipates that […]

The North Vancouver university becomes the association’s 96th member institution.

Researchers are using drones, geolocation and other cutting-edge tools to follow hard-to-study animals in their natural habitats.

Acquiring the Glenbow collection, now housed primarily at the High Density Library, has doubled the university’s archival collection.