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A Brock University research team has received a $2.5M grant to lead an international team of researchers in investigations of how services and policies impact diverse Canadian families. The seven-year program will investigate what kinds of policy and services are best for Canada’s diverse families with young children. Developed prior to the pandemic, Brock Professor […]

Students at several Canadian universities are expressing anger and concern regarding recent announcements about tuition increases amid the pandemic. In reaction to Dalhousie University’s decision to increase tuition by 3% this year, Dalhousie Student Union vice-president of academic and external Erica Seelemann said “…every organization almost in the world has had to make accommodations for […]

In addition to some laboratory-based scientists losing the capacity to execute experiments, David Kent notes another important aspect of this work that has been impacted by the pandemic: social interactions. “I miss it dearly,” writes Kent, “not just the social interaction that comes with being a lab-based scientist, but the spur of the moment conversations […]

York University’s School of Continuing Studies has created two blockchain programs: the part-time Certificate in Blockchain Development and the full-time Post-Graduate Certificate in Back-end and Blockchain Developments. Both programs will begin September 2020 and are described by Newswire as “the first and only university continuing education blockchain programs in Canada.” Each program is designed to […]