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Canadian campuses working toward reconciliation have their work cut out

| January 19, 2017

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Canadian universities shifting to top-down, corporate governance are reading from the same playbook

Luke Kalfleish

| January 13, 2017

On June 28, 2013, the then-president of Brock University, Jack Lightstone, posted an open letter online and via email to the Brock community titled "The Need for a Program Review."

Student activists and survivors of sexual violence have led the fight for policy development on Canadian campuses for decades. They've won important victories, but the fight continues.

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New campus sex assault policies show Canadian universities still aren't listening to survivors

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New campus sex assault policies show Canadian universities still aren't listening to survivors

Sophia Reuss

| December 6, 2016

Let's make post-secondary education free for everyone

Bilan Arte

| October 21, 2016

For as long as I've been a student, I've heard experts, politicians and even some of my own classmates say that "free tuition" is a bad idea.

I've been told that free tuition is "wrong", or "self-interested." Why? Because those who get to college or university are already privileged. Why should our society subsidize them?

I've never understood this argument, but that may have something to do with my own life story. My parents were refugees from Somalia, and I am a first-generation university student in Canada.

Manitoba must invest to keep its universities public, accessible and places of open inquiry

Mark Hudson

| March 14, 2016

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Manitobans recognize that universities play a variety of important social roles, well beyond preparing people for successful careers.

'We're just trying to challenge you': White responses to anti-racism on campus

Nora Loreto

| December 14, 2015

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During my final years at Ryerson, I was part of a coalition that grew out of the ashes of an attempt of white supremacists to organize a student club. The Anti-Racism Coalition convinced the university to study racism on campus and the resulting Task Force produced a document that identified systemic and structural locations of racism.

The Liberals claim they will help post-secondary education students by expanding student aid. But is that true?

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Fact check: The Liberals' band-aid fix for student aid will help some students, not all

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Fact check: The Liberals' band-aid fix for student aid will help some students, not all

Nora Loreto

| October 14, 2015

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The claim: The Liberals will help post-secondary education students by expanding student aid

Politically sidelined (trigger warning)

J. Baglow

| August 15, 2015

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