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ASPP Spotlight: Hockey, PQ: Canada's Game in Quebec's Popular Culture
Hockey is arguably the most identifiably Canadian cultural marker. We can take its national significance as a given considering that even the Prime Minister has found time in his busy schedule to write a book about the sport! My goal in Hockey, PQ...
SSH News: Back-to-school reports, opinions, and advice
Good news about employment and earnings for university grads University education is in the spotlight as students across Canada head back to school. A good news report from The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) confirms that university students...
Pre-budget 2015 submission: Investments in research, scholarships, social innovation and Aboriginal students
Each year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance asks Canadians to identify their priorities for the upcoming federal budget. In response, the Federation puts forward recommendations pertaining to the social science and humanities...
SSH News: Sociology and Neo-Liberalism, Generation Z, and Teaching Ferguson
Open Access and ASPP draft policy consultations It is not too late to submit your feedback on the Federation’s draft policy regarding Open Access in our Awards for Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). More information on the policy and how you can...
Open Access and the ASPP: Consultations on the draft policy
By Karen Diepeveen The last few years have seen a lot of buzz around Open Access: its benefits, challenges, opportunities and obstacles. The granting councils have begun exploring Open Access for journals. For the Federation for the Humanities and...
SSH News: hitchBOT completes its journey, World University rankings, Vanier and Banting recipients announced
hitchBOT completes its journey hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot, created by communication professors David Smith (McMaster) and Frauke Zeller (Ryerson), has completed its journey from Halifax to Victoria. We took the opportunity to speak to the...
An interview with the creative minds behind hitchBOT, Canada’s hitchhiking robot
Something strange has been happening across Canada. A small, chatty robot has been making its way from Halifax to Victoria by waiting on the side of the road to hitch rides. On August 16, hitchBOT tweeted out to its followers that it was on the ferry...
SSH News: PSE funding in Ontario and Quebec, the value of SSH in science education, and SSH research in media
This week in SSH News, Ontario and Québec are both looking towards a more specialized, targeted funding model for institutions of public secondary education. In Ontario, the government unveiled a plan detailing a new funding strategy for universities...
ASPP Spotlight: Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, by Nancy J. Turner
The two-volume book, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America, published by McGill-Queens University Press, represents, for me, a culmination of many years of...