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Pre-budget 2015 submission: Investments in research, scholarships, social innovation and Aboriginal students
Each year, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance asks Canadians to identify their priorities for the upcoming federal budget. In response, the Federation puts forward recommendations pertaining to the social science and humanities...
"Be partners in using statistics for your decision"
Ryan Saxby Hill Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. It likely won't come as a surprise for you to learn that many of our members here at the Federation love statistics. This love finally has a musical outlet. World Statistics...
It's the digital economy, stupid!
Ryan Saxby Hill Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences We at the Federation are getting pretty excited about this week's Big Thinking lecture with Catherine Middleton. Catherine is a super-smart Canada Research Chair at Ryerson...
Canadian Economics Association responds to SSHRC's program changes
James Brander, President, and Michael Veall, Vice-President On behalf of the Executive Council of the Canadian Economics Association Guest Contributors We have reviewed the proposed changes described in the “Briefing on SSHRC’s Renewed Program...
SSHRC Program Architecture Renewal – Share your thoughts
Noreen Golfman, President The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council recently released the latest draft of their proposed Program Architecture Renewal. You can find a primer on the Program Architecture Renewal on the Federation’s website, or...
Fedcan on Budget 2010
Ryan Saxby Hill, Media Relations Photo Courtest of slightly-less-random on Flickr The federal budget was released last week to much (but seemingly unsustainable) attention from the national press. Generally, the Federation was pleased that SSHRC was...
Status of Women in Canada on International Women’s Day 2010
Judy Rebick, Ryerson University Guest Contributor It is International Women’s Day 2010, forty years after the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. A generation has passed, my generation. In some ways, there has been a revolution in...
e-Dialogue on the future of the social sciences
Ryan Saxby Hill, CFHSS Media Relations Noreen Golfman, president of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, joined a rock star lineup of speakers for an e-dialogue hosted by Royal Roads University this month. The discussion is...