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Canadian university faculty getting older, more female compared to 50 years ago: StatCan
Monday, January 30th, 2023
Moving through the ranks, women achieved gender parity at the assistant professor level in the 2017-18 academic year. In 2021-22, women made up 51 per cent of assistant professors in Canada. The proportion of women as associate professors reached 44.3 per cent in 2021-22, five times more compared to 50 years ago. While nearly 10 times greater compared to 1971-72, the largest gender gap still exists among full professors, where 31.4 per cent are women.
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Canadians can now apply for new dental benefit: here’s how
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
For now, the “Canada Dental Benefit” will be offered to children under the age of 12, with an annual family income of less than $90,000, with the amount provided per child per year dependant on family income… While only those under 12 years old will get access for now, the government says it remains committed to following through on seeing this stop-gap measure become a fully-fledged national dental care plan by 2025.
Tags: featured, Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | No Comments »
New bill will force tech giants to negotiate deals to pay media to use their content
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
“Now more than ever, Canadians need reliable and credible information, especially in a time of greater mistrust and disinformation.” The bill, designed to support Canada’s independent media, is modelled on an Australian law making tech companies such as Google and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, pay for news content on their platforms.
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Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »