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Why are we still debating diversity versus merit in 2015?
Canada’s first gender-equal cabinet is being celebrated by equality and diversity advocates but criticized by those who believe that using selection criteria like gender, race, or ethnicity violates merit. Those who trumpet merit believe that...
SSH News: November 5, 2015
Weekly digest of the most recent news from the humanities, social sciences and higher education. Un bulletin hebdomadaire des actualités les plus récentes des sciences humaines et sociales et de l’enseignement supérieur. Humanities and Social...
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...
SSH News: October 29, 2015
Weekly digest of the most recent news from the humanities, social sciences and higher education. Un bulletin hebdomadaire des actualités les plus récentes des sciences humaines et sociales et de l’enseignement supérieur. Humanities and Social...
Shifts Happen
It is always nice to start the new academic year on a bit of a high, not always easy given enrollment challenges, coping with an election that has lasted longer than some prime ministerial terms, and being bombarded with Gradgrindingly Wente-esque...
Open for Collaboration
Another year, another Open Access Week. Time flies when you’re having fun, right? That’s certainly been the case here at the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, where a lot has happened on our Open Access file over the past year...
SSH News: October 22, 2015
Weekly digest of the most recent news from the humanities, social sciences and higher education. Un bulletin hebdomadaire des actualités les plus récentes des sciences humaines et sociales et de l’enseignement supérieur. Humanities and Social...
The complexity of poverty in Canada
This blog post marks the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17. For more information about this day, go here . Over the past 40 years poverty in Canada has become increasingly complex, racialized and often...
SSH News: October 15, 2015
Weekly digest of the most recent news from the humanities, social sciences and higher education. Un bulletin hebdomadaire des actualités les plus récentes des sciences humaines et sociales et de l’enseignement supérieur. Humanities and Social...