Education
Shortening Canadian teacher education risks devaluing the profession of teaching
Recently, shorter teacher certification programs have been introduced in different Canadian provinces.
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- Education
Why the ugly history of IQ testing matters for AI and education
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has recently been discussing “artificial general intelligence” that matches or surpasses human capabilities.
- Environment
How Canada can better track what happens to trafficked wildlife after they’re seized
In 2022, officers from the Canada Border Services Agency and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) intercepted a package of live turtles from China that had been declared as children’s building blocks.
- Technology
Data centres: Opposing them and developing them are not the only two choices
When a nurse in Thunder Bay opens a patient’s chart or a shopper in Halifax taps a bank card, the request travels somewhere physical — a building humming with servers, storage, network equipment, backup power and cooling systems.
- Business
Alberta and Québec referendums test Canadian unity amid hostility from the U.S.
People in the Canadian province of Alberta are voting on whether to stay in Canada or begin a process for a second, binding referendum on independence. By 2030, those in Québec could face a similar choice.
- Health
Looking for work as a disabled person? Recognize your strengths and find an accessible workplace
Finding a job is challenging enough without having to contend with stereotypes about disability. Yet ableist assumptions — including the association of disability with “economic inactivity” — can shape how employers perceive you and your ab…
TechnologyAre you a creature or a machine? How to live in ecological community in a time of AI
We have been bombarded in recent weeks with apocalyptic headlines about “artificial super-intelligence” and the possibilities of a new era of “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) in which AI achieves human capacities for reason and learn…
- Education
Q&A with an Alberta politics expert: Taking the province’s pulse as the referendum approaches
Jared Wesley, a professor of political science at the University of Alberta, is on the award-winning Conversation Weekly podcast discussing the Alberta independence referendum being held on Oct.
- Environment
Endangered species in Canada face extensive delays receiving protection
For more than 20 years, Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) has protected wildlife that are at risk of being lost from Canadian lands and waters.
- Health
There’s no clock on the grief of losing an infant, but there is a deadline to return to work
Pregnancy and infant loss affect thousands of Canadian families each year. Yet after a loss, many find themselves navigating not only grief but a complicated system of employment leaves and income benefits.
- Technology
Canada could save millions by developing its own operating system instead of relying on Microsoft Windows
Canada has made digital sovereignty a priority in areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and telecommunications.
- Technology
AI can predict intimate partner violence before survivors disclose. But should it?
Artificial intelligence (AI) can now flag people who may be at elevated risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) years before they disclose the violence or seek help for it within the health-care system.