Red Alert!
Students tackle underground rescue scenarios as Laurentian University hosts the Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Response Competition.
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Learn when to say no… and yes!
How to strike your own balance between ambition, institutional expectations, and personal limits.
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PhD studies: perception vs reality
How do I tell my friends and family about what I really do as a doctoral student?
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Why has the Atlantic region been hit hardest by IRCC’s student visa cuts?
Reduced international student intake threatens local economies, workforce pipelines and long-term growth in less populous regions.
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Maple: from soil to syrup
Discover the ecology behind Canada’s sweetest treat in this documentary short, featuring Université Laval Professor Guillaume Moreau.
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Art schools grapple with AI
Creative arts among the first and hardest-hit by powerful new tech.
Two solitudes: Quebec Universities in WWII
Historical researcher explores English-French divide over Second World War.
Opinion
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What are universities really for and why does it matter now?
A review of Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities, University of Regina Press, 2026.
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Curiosity over canon
The benefits of research beyond methodological silos.
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What do universities owe the public?
Institutions of higher learning exist to serve the needs of society, from global to local.
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Beyond protection?
The impact of ethics sprawl on researchers at Canadian universities.
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Why should academic freedom protect ineffective teaching?
The status quo is in desperate need of change.
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April-May 2026
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Learn when to say no… and yes!
How to strike your own balance between ambition, institutional expectations, and personal limits.
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PhD studies: perception vs reality
How do I tell my friends and family about what I really do as a doctoral student?
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Dr. Editor’s summer reading list
Five books to improve your academic writing.
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Creating retirement, step by step
Building a fulfilling life after work means remaining creative, playful and open to opportunities.
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Reconsidering the value of exams in the age of AI
Logistical, security and validity challenges present an opportunity to rethink the role of exams in assessment.
Northern Shift
The alarming rise of far-right movements in Canada.
Equity
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Q&A with Canada’s former special representative on combating Islamophobia
Amira Elghawaby champions religious accommodations on campus.
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Fourteen women receive engineering scholarships in commemoration of 1989 Montreal massacre
Initiated by Polytechnique Montréal in 2014, the scholarship program has vastly expanded its support for female engineering students.
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The Mintz Report is wrong on EDI
Demanding ‘institutional neutrality,’ Alberta’s report on the post-secondary system risks silencing equity.
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Inclusivity and our fundamental rights
Interference in research is putting academic freedom and open science in jeopardy.
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AI and the future of learning: Why you can’t miss this year’s Canadian EdTech AI summit
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Meet Marie-Eve Sylvestre, the new University of Ottawa president who sees a world of possibilities
Bringing people together to change the community and the world.
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MagazineEditorial Team
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Daniel Halton
Editor
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Kate Jaimet
Deputy editor
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Edward Thomas Swan
Art Director
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Hannah Liddle
Assistant Editor
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Mohamed Berrada
Francophone Associate Editor
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Marie-Lou Bernatchez
Francophone Journalist
