Free speech and unequal prejudice
Have you heard? Free speech is a thing of the past. And religious liberty is dying fast. It began last week when Arun Smith, a seventh-year human rights student at Carleton University in Ottawa, tore...
View ArticleThis business professor is a creativity crusader
Dahl (sauder.ubc.ca) Darren Dahl, a professor and associate dean of the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, is a 3M National Teaching Fellowship recipient for 2013....
View ArticleIs a journalism degree worth doing?
sskennel/Flickr I’ll never forget my first week of journalism school. Fresh out of Queen’s University’s English program, I entered Ryerson University’s Master of Journalism program in the fall of 2010...
View ArticleDid reducing hours for residents increase medical errors?
There was a sigh across the country in 2011 when a Quebec arbitrator ruled that the 24-hour shifts required of medical residents violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Why were young doctors...
View ArticleHeading to graduate school?
The author on reading break at Disney World 1. Pick the program that scares you most. When deciding where to complete my master’s degree, I had to choose between two very different programs. One was a...
View ArticleWhy religious schools shouldn’t get funding
readephotography/Flickr Canada’s Christian post-secondary institutions just can’t stay away from controversy. It seems like only yesterday, everyone (including this guy) was talking about the CAUT’s...
View ArticleAre Ph.D.s an academic dead zone?
Dominic Chan/CP Two decades ago, if you sat at a dinner party next to someone with a Ph.D., chances were, those letters made an impact. You’d try to sound your smartest, asking about the person’s field...
View ArticleOntario Liberals will win votes with enrollment chop
woodleywonderworks/Flickr Ontario’s government announced today that it plans to double the time students spend in teacher’s college to four semesters starting in September 2015. It will also increase...
View ArticleMaster’s degrees don’t mean more job offers
Queen's University (Jessica Darmanin) If you think the letters M.A. will help your resumé get picked out of the pile when applying for your first post-university job, you may be mistaken....
View ArticleU.B.C. student blinded in Bangladesh finishes master’s
Monzur defends her Master’s thesis on June 28, 2013 (Martin Dee/UBC Public Affairs) Rumana Monzur can picture a towering mountain or the blue sky on a sunny day. She remembers what the ocean looks like...
View ArticleNew law school aims to ease rural, northern shortage
The inaugural class of Ontario’s first new law school in decades starts this fall in a province already teeming with new lawyers, but these students will be steered away from the big-city fray. As law...
View ArticleThe 2013 Maclean’s Canadian Law School Rankings
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View ArticleDo we really need so many lawyers?
Olivier Jean / Reuters Each year, just before Christmas, a cross-section of Toronto’s legal establishment gathers for what might be the only truly indispensible event on its calendar. “Beef Night” is...
View ArticleStudents demand boundaries between drug firms and medical schools
Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90 / Redux When Toronto family doctor Navindra Persaud was studying medicine at the University of Toronto in 2004, he took a week-long course on how to treat patients suffering...
View ArticleSchulich School of Business in India
Schulich School of Business For Dezsö Horváth, the dean of York University’s Schulich School of Business, there’s no small amount of irony in India’s recent decision to allow foreign universities to...
View ArticleInside the growing field of forensic engineering
Jimmy Jeong Before the hit series CSI, there was the Canadian documentary show Exhibit A, which traced the ways investigators had used high-tech scientific analysis to solve real-life crimes. As a...
View ArticleAccounting designations get together
Roger Lemoyne For students considering a career in accounting, 2013 might seem like the most confusing time in the history of the profession. For more than a century, Canada has had three different...
View Article‘I didn’t go to law school to become an academic’
Laura McGee (Jessica Darmanin) Laura McGee entered law school three years ago planning on a career negotiating international trade deals. By second year, reality set in. “Once you look at recruiting...
View Article1 in 6 new medical specialists can’t find work
TORONTO – The findings are startling, given years of complaints about doctor shortages and long wait times for surgeries. But a new report suggests that nearly one in six recently minted medical...
View ArticleProposed law schools in Newfoundland and B.C. move forward
Law students of York University’s Osgoode Hall Two Canadian universities are much closer this week to establishing law schools despite worries by some in the profession that there are already too many...
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