Friday, April 27, 2012

Start up visa program linked to research and innovation

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Policy Monitor is reporting that changes to federal immigration policy are being considered. Citizenship and Immigration Canada has announ...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Quebec women's centres strike in support of students

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Hundreds of thousands of students have been demonstrating against the reduction of funding for university education in Quebec. Today, Queb...
Monday, April 23, 2012

UVIC leaves Access Copyright, along with 35 other AUCC members

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The Ring reports UVIC will not renew it's Access Copyright membership in 2012. AUCC had negotiated a deal that would cost universitie...
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Analyzing the Quebec student demonstrations

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A group of self-described progressive economists have called out CBC's Rex Murphy on some simplistic "stop complaining' analysi...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Science for profit: Conservatives target the National Research Council | rabble.ca

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More on the budget, the national research council and funding in the 2012 budget for graduate students, in this editorial from Rabble: Sci...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Canadian Medical Association weighs in on CIHR and other research cuts

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The devil is in the details, and a great summary of concerns about research funding has been provided in today's Canadian Medical Associ...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Federal Budget & Grad students

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Updated: links to responses to budget for research/graduate study added below The budget was touted for many cuts (and the demise of the ...