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Federal research body in talks with University of Alberta to ensure EDI requirement compliance
March 5, 2026
Federal government lawyers have contacted the University of Alberta to make sure it's meeting equity requirements for the country’s most prestigious professorships. It comes after the university proposed to remove equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy.
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VANCOUVER — At a downtown Vancouver church, a Christian baptism takes place during a recent Sunday service. Amid the incense and infants dressed in white getting ready to receive the holy water is a group of four Iranian nationals also waiting to receive adult baptisms.
As with past baptisms, some of them will likely not return to the church after receiving their baptismal certificate. It is simply a means to an end — claiming asylum.
When a parishioner congratulates one of the newly baptized Farsi speakers, mentioning Iran’s significant Christian and Jewish populations, as well as...
March 26, 2026 - 06:55 | Special to National Post | National Post
According to the most recent federal figures, of the 326,230 deaths registered in Canada in 2024, 16,499 were medically assisted. That year, Ontario reported 4,944, and British Columbia 2,997. Quebec registered the highest rate of medical assistance in dying, or MAID, by any jurisdiction in the world, contributing 36.3 percent of medically assisted deaths that occurred in the country.
If one were to classify MAID as a cause of death in Canada, in 2024 it would have been the fourth after cancer, heart conditions, and accidents, and ahead of cerebrovascular diseases. Consistent with...
March 26, 2026 - 06:30 | Kevin Andrew Heslop | Walrus
Where the seedling body,
wearing a smock or a backwards old
dress shirt, makes a map: two wells
of colour in an egg carton,
glossed paper, thick-handled brush.
Start with a burst
of solar egg, streak with sea. That clotted
bloom of overlap, beheld
—duckweed, algae, moss—paint’s a skin
and then it’s a sinking dream
for the gaze. Verdant island
blotting at the shores,
and the grass is nowhere greener, nowhere
is it greener than this place.The post Wish You Were Here first appeared on The Walrus.
March 26, 2026 - 06:29 | Sadiqa de Meijer | Walrus
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