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The Harper Decade: reflecting on ten years of Conservative government
Zahura Ahmed, Congress student blogger From 2006 to 2015, Canadian federal politics were marked by the distinctive leadership style and priorities of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party. From domestic and foreign policy, to institutions and...
Preserving knowledge in the face of war and oppression: Stories of academic refugees fleeing Hitler’s regime
When academics and researchers are displaced by war or persecution, it is more than their lives and those of their families that face destruction; we also risk losing their accumulated expertise and future contributions to human knowledge. In times...
We’re all in this canoe called Canada together
Referencing the famous statue “Spirit of Haida Gwaii” by Indigenous artist Bill Reid, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada) addressed the issue of accommodation in her Big Thinking lecture The Rule of...
Research methods: The right tool for each job
Some years ago, two great research traditions arose in social and behavioral science: talking to people and gathering data and numbers about people. A hybrid tradition, which goes by various names but which we’ll call ‘mixed methods,’ arose in the...
Getting radically interdisciplinary with the sciences
More visibly than ever, advocates for the humanities and social sciences (HSS) are making the case that their fields must be considered not just on par with, but actually as partners with, the natural sciences in contributing to societal goods. The...
Mémoire prébudgétaire 2016 : La Fédération préconise des investissements dans les domaines de la recherche, de la mobilité étudiante et à l’appui de l’œuvre de réconciliation avec les peuples autochtones
À l’avènement de la saison budgétaire, la Fédération exhorte le gouvernement fédéral à injecter dans le système d’enseignement postsecondaire des investissements conséquents visant à favoriser la recherche universitaire, la mobilité étudiante et la...
Government's research agenda incomplete without attention to the human sciences
This op-ed was published in RE$EARCH MONEY on December 21, 2015. We've now had nearly two months to watch a new national government find its feet and flesh out its major science policies. While there have been some important and welcome announcements...
Stephen Toope: How sound science policy can make Ottawa better
This op-ed was published in The Hill Times on November 2, 2015 The new government will soon take office, carrying with it the hopes of a broad range of Canadians. And for those of us who value scientific research—either because we use it in our...
Back to school: What is the media saying?
As Media Officer at the Federation, I monitor “back to school” media every September to get a snapshot of what dominates current debates and conversations in the postsecondary education (PSE) sector, and what some of the biggest priorities and...