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Free festival showcases big ideas from UVic
It’s not often that students have open access to UVic research in a free festival format. IdeaFest is bringing together 50 events — lectures, exhibits and workshops — from all faculties on campus to share big ideas with students, faculty members and the public from...B.C. Budget focuses on trades training, cuts to universities continue
The 2013 B.C. Budget released on Feb. 19 offers few sustainable investments into post-secondary, instead opting to cut operating funds by $5 million in 2013–2014 as part of a total cut of $50 million to post-secondary schools’ funding by 2016. Programs that do invest...SFU-based report calls for university wage policy that reflects cost of living
A report encouraging Simon Fraser University (SFU) to become the first campus in Canada to pay all its employees a living wage rather than minimum wage is currently under review by that university. The Living Wage for Families Campaign by First Call: B.C. Child and...B.C. Generations Project draws nearly 29 000 participants to province’s largest long-term cancer prevention study
Adults in B.C. have one more month to join nearly 29 000 people who have signed on as participants in the province’s largest long-term cancer prevention study. The B.C. Cancer Agency began recruitment for the project in 2009 and hopes to include 40 000 adults aged 35...Our Digital Print Issue
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