Can new approaches to medical curriculum solve the family doctor shortage?
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
Three new medical schools and an innovative family medicine program look to alleviate a crisis in primary care… Team-based or multidisciplinary care is… an approach that the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) wants provinces to adopt, and soon… While the new medical programs hold a lot of promise for alleviating the family doctor shortage… solving it entirely is a collective responsibility that extends to and beyond all medical schools in Canada.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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‘Don’t just publish another paper. Let’s do something,’ says scholar-advocate Cindy Blackstock
Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
… [Dr. Blackstock] wants to see more emphasis at Canadian universities on teaching students about advocacy: how to do it and how to continue doing it throughout their careers. “So often we get students in social work and law who say they are doing advocacy, but we don’t train them, and we don’t teach them about the courage it takes to do it,”
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Supreme Court sides with York University in copyright tariff dispute
Thursday, September 9th, 2021
If the Supreme Court had delivered a different judgment, it “would have been an absolute disaster” and would have forced universities to limit their use of fair dealing or risk retaliation from Access Copyright… that really scared a lot of people.” … The opportunity for postsecondary institutions to expand their use of fair dealing is the big takeaway from the legal dispute
Tags: ideology, privatization, rights
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Federal government announces $9B financial relief package for students
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
The new program will replace students’ lost summer income at $1,250 a month from May to August. Those who are also providing care for someone, or who have a disability will have access to $1,750 a month. Current students, students beginning their studies in September 2020, and those who graduated after December 2019 are eligible for the program… details on the new programs will come in the following days.
Tags: budget, economy, jurisdiction, participation, youth
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Laurentian relaunches tuition waiver program for former youth in care
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
in January 2019, the current provincial government made widespread changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program, favouring grants and loans and marking the end of free tuition for lower-income students, prompting Laurentian to re-launch the program… “… after age 18, the lives [of youth in care] are a huge challenge… In the end, as a government, you pay for it anyway. … You can’t stop caring about them after 18.”
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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University performance-based funding is bound to fail
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
… there is a strong call for a significant proportion of performance to be based on narrow labour-market outcomes, commercialization and economic imperatives… the collection of system-wide data is not a bad idea on its own… However… it runs the real danger of skewing university programs and perverting the very objectives it sets out to measure through over-emphasis and, frankly, “gaming” of one sort or another.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction
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Canada doesn’t lack in terms of university-industry collaboration
Wednesday, September 18th, 2019
The share of industry-funded R&D in Canadian universities hovered around eight percent over the past couple of decades. That may not sound like a lot, but it has been consistently higher than the equivalent figure for American universities, which has fluctuated at around five percent in the same period.
Tags: economy, globalization, standard of living
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Canada Research Chairs program announces new, more ambitious equity targets
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
After 13 years of slow progress towards its equity goals, the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program is redoubling efforts to improve diversity within the program. On July 31, the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat… announced more ambitious targets for representation of four equity-seeking groups: women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous people and visible minorities.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, women
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Think tanks fill an important niche within Canada’s public policy landscape
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
It is difficult to define think tanks because no two are alike in terms of mission, scope or funding… “One thing all of them share at their core is an ongoing commitment to producing timely and policy-relevant research… What distinguishes and defines them is their sources and levels of funding” … “Non-urgent public policy thinking has been thinned out over time through government cutbacks, and the redeployment of public servants more towards keeping the government running and dealing with daily issues…
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, participation
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Budget 2019 promotes skills, scholarships and Indigenous student access
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019
… the federal Liberals tabled a budget on March 19 focused on skills, employment and youth, along with other items related to affordable housing, pharmacare and seniors. The budget contains several key items for the postsecondary sector, including a target to create 84,000 new student work placements across the country by 2023… The government has pledged $328 million over five years targeted at First Nations communities through expansion of the Postsecondary Student Support Program…
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation
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