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What Happened to the Dimensions Program? - Evidence For Democracy evidencefordemocracy.ca/what…
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Media Release: Capital gains increase is long-overdue step towards tax fairness taxfairness.ca/en/media/rele…
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Investing in research is a no-brainer!
That's why #Budget2024 supports research innovation by:
📚Investing in, and developing, a new generation of research talent
🔬Increasing research grants across disciplines
✨Updating Canada’s top research facilities
"But the public domain really is the soil for future creativity." #faircopyright #fairdealingworks
Public domain, where there is life after copyright cbsnews.com/news/public-doma… via @cbssunday
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Grad students and postdocs need our support.
I know the challenges they face firsthand. When I was at the university, I helped them secure funding, food, housing and heating.
They have the ideas, do research now, and are also the future of research.
Time to invest.
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Research is essential to the health, prosperity and security of Canada.
Canadian researchers have a long history of achievement.
Investment in researchers, postdocs and grad students means new discoveries-treatments, climate solutions, technologies, and a better future for all.
Does a university undergraduate degree lead to a ‘good job?’ It depends what you mean theconversation.com/does-a-u… via @ConversationCA
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Researchers work to save lives, improve healthcare, address the climate crisis and build a better future for Canadians.
A future driven by knowledge, forged by curiosity and a quest for understanding.
It’s time to invest in researchers, postdocs and grad students.
Excellent oped by @ratnaomi on the importance of high quality, affordable and accessible #cdnpse. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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I'm in Ottawa tonight. Tomorrow I'm meeting with politicians as part of @CAUT_ACPPU 's Parliament Hill Day.
I'm excited to help advocate for stronger support for research and science & accessible and affordable post-secondary education in Canada.
#CAUTLobby2023 #cdnPSE #canlab
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One piece of good news: post-secondary educational institutions will now be excluded from the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, preventing them from using bankruptcy protection to skirt their obligations to their employees. Congratulations to @CAUT_ACPPU on this win.
#FES2023
Thank you to @CharlieAngusNDP for championing changes to federal insolvency laws to exclude public institutions. #Fes2023 #cdnpse cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/c…
Thanks to @FP_Champagne @cafreeland @JustinTrudeau for following through on promise to exempt public post-secondary from corporate restructuring and to @SenLucieMoncion, @VivianeLapointe, for championing this issue.
CAUT welcomes today’s announcement in the #EconomicStatement that the government will amend federal insolvency laws, to exclude #cdnpse. These amendments will reduce the risk of negative consequences in possible corporate restructuring such as we saw with Laurentian debacle.
I was surprised that increases to federal support for graduate students was not in #budget2023. Will there be support for research and science in today’s #FES2023?
Sometimes lobbying federally of late reminds me of parenting as I have 3 kids. If they were named 1) the federal gov 2) the provinces and 3) the private sector, I would tell #1, but I am talking to you right now. Not them (pointing at 2 and 3). # 1 What are you going to do?
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One huge challenge with mentorship is that Indigenous mentors are tasked with responsibilities but not the credit for tenure & promotion.
This is a great point, but not a new one.
Why this remains a problem in 2023 is incomprehensible.🤦🏻
#CSPC2023
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Consider two-step admissions: admit students who lack some prerequisites into streams that allow them to obtain courses.
Introduces them to university life, while supporting education.
#CSPC2023
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"There’s no such thing as non-inclusive excellence." - Shohini Ghose, on transforming the assessment of research excellence #CSPC2023. Dr. Ghose is a member of our Expert Panel on Quantum Technologies bit.ly/3Hbi4D4
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Thank you to the MPs who are calling to boost the funds available through the federal granting agencies in the fall economic statement and to increase the size of scholarships and stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
One in 20 international students exposed to sex-for-rent proposals in
Ireland: Report weeklyvoice.com/one-in-20-in… - need research and action on precarious housing and #GBV facing students in Canada.