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Fresh Air and New Hope for Canada and Human Rights
This blog was prepared for the celebration of Human Rights Day 2015. There is a palpable sense of relief within the human rights community following the federal election results of October 19 th . Notwithstanding some commitments and investments in...
Federation chronicles 75 years of supporting the humanities and social sciences
To mark its anniversary, the organization launches a timeline of important events in its history.
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...
Congress 2016 will take a village: University of Calgary put its hosting skills on display and welcomed team from Ottawa for three days of planning meetings
Planning for the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences jointly organized by the University of Calgary and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences officially kicked off on Sept. 28, 2015. UCalgary hosted 10 members from the...
Unpacking 75 years of Federation history
How on earth does one distill hundreds of archival boxes containing letters, meeting minutes, conference notes, photographs, surveys, legal documents, and even the occasional poem into a succinct historical timeline of the Federation from 1940 to the...
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...
Stephen Toope: Reconciliation begins by closing the graduation gap
This op-ed was published in The Globe and Mail on August 31, 2015. As millions of Canadian young people gear up for a return to classrooms this fall, the “back to school” rallying cry is ubiquitous – in advertising, in media headlines and in...
Des nouvelles méthodes d’apprentissage pour « Imaginer l’avenir du Canada »
Pour continuer à prospérer au XXI e siècle, le Canada doit être proactif et réfléchir collectivement à ses possibilités d’avenir afin d’être en mesure d’anticiper ses besoins comme société et en matière de connaissances, ainsi que les enjeux auxquels...
Who is telling our stories? Canadian millennials in literature and the humanities
On July 14, Go Set a Watchman will be released to the general public, a sequel of sorts to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird . Few works of literature have had a more profound role in shaping conversations on race in the 20th century than To Kill a...