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Study compares student retention rates
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OTTAWA (CUP) — Recent research out of the University of Ottawa (U of O) suggests certain students are more at risk of facing obstacles
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Canada in brief: Jan. 12, 2011
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Good music stimulates as much as sex: study MONTREAL (CUP) — Researchers from McGill University have discovered that music can trigger the brain’s pleasure
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Millions spent on summer jobs
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OTTAWA (CUP) — More Canadian students will be able to find full-time work this summer, thanks to a $10-million investment from the Conservative government.
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Captain no longer silent about teammate’s death
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FREDERICTON (CUP) — Brett Lewis has nothing to hide. The co-captain of the volleyball team’s one regret, besides losing his teammate, is that he
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Profs should foster students’ spiritual growth: study
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TORONTO (CUP) — The role of religion and spirituality in the classroom has been hotly debated since the movement for teaching creationism in public
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Disputing the north
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“It’s nice to talk about arctic sovereignty, it’s kind of sexy,” said Michael Byers, author and Canadian Research Chair, “but all of the stuff
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Celebrating a decade of research
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Canada’s strength in research and academia is developing with the help of ten years of the Canadian Research Chairs (CRC) program. At the program’s
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CASA advocates student issues
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Last week, the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) and its member schools, including Wilfrid Laurier University, lobbied members of parliament (MP) and senators
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Provincial lobby group outlines priorities
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With the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) anticipating their provincial lobby conference at Queen’s Park in the upcoming weeks, their General Assembly held on
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Economy to ‘muddle along’
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After Canada was dragged into the worst economic recession since the 1930s, it would be well over a year before the economy began its
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