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Nov 27, 2024 | 
universityaffairs.ca | Diane Peters |Marie-Lou Bernatchez |Mohamed BERRADA |Moira Macdonald
Before Wendy Pedersen accepted the role of activist-in-residence at Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) in early 2023, she had mixed feelings regarding the “in residence” component. CERi’s offices are located in a co-working space in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A decade ago, Ms. Pedersen advocated unsuccessfully for that very location, an old police station, to be converted to social housing.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
universityaffairs.ca | Marie-Lou Bernatchez |Mohamed BERRADA |Moira Macdonald |Josh Kozelj
Leaving home at age 15 to pursue studies is a hard choice, but that’s the path Jean-Pierre Bergevin followed in 1963. After boarding for several years at Université de Hearst – which was Collège de Hearst at the time – he obtained his bachelor’s degree in literature in 1970 and moved to Ottawa for four years to complete a master’s in psychology.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
universityaffairs.ca | Mohamed BERRADA
Illustration by: Maya Schultz In an unprecedented housing shortage, Canadian and international students are facing a crisis that puts their studies – and their well-being – at risk. But innovative partnerships between universities, governments and private stakeholders are exploring long term solutions.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
universityaffairs.ca | Mohamed BERRADA
All photos courtesy of: Selena Phillips-Boyle One of the goals of the new CEO of Montreal’s École de technologie supérieure is to increase the visibility of the university on both a national and global scale.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Ilan Stavans |Mohamed BERRADA |Madeleine Dorst
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. In the introduction to Mohamed Berrada’s Ward wa Ramād (Flowers and Ashes, 2000), a work featuring the correspondence between Berrada (b. 1938) and Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) that spans almost two decades, Berrada describes his first meeting with Choukri:أول مرة تعرفت فيها على محمد شكري، حين التقيته خلال عطلة صيف 1972 بشارع باستور بطنجة...كان يمسك برسن كلب كبير ويمشي بتلقائية وسط زحمة الناس.
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Aug 8, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Ilan Stavans |Mohamed BERRADA |Madeleine Dorst
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. In the introduction to Mohamed Berrada’s Ward wa Ramād (Flowers and Ashes, 2000), a work featuring the correspondence between Berrada (b. 1938) and Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) that spans almost two decades, Berrada describes his first meeting with Choukri:أول مرة تعرفت فيها على محمد شكري، حين التقيته خلال عطلة صيف 1972 بشارع باستور بطنجة...كان يمسك برسن كلب كبير ويمشي بتلقائية وسط زحمة الناس.
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May 16, 2024 | 
universityaffairs.ca | Mohamed BERRADA
Campuses from Vancouver to Montreal are heating up as the pro-Palestinian student protest movement gains momentum in Canada. Appalled by the growing death toll in Gaza — and inspired by protests in the United States — activists have set up encampments on campuses nationwide. The protesters are demanding that universities divest from companies with business ties to Israel.
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May 8, 2024 | 
universityaffairs.ca | Mohamed BERRADA |Hannah Liddle |Daniel Halton
University Affairs reached out to professors for their advice to faculty on how to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict with students.
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May 1, 2024 | 
universityaffairs.ca | Mohamed BERRADA
The federal government’s 2024 budget has brought the mental health of young Canadians to the forefront. For many students and young professionals, the lack of access to private mental health care, combined with the high cost of living, can make overcoming mental illness a steep hill to climb. The government said it wants to ensure future generations have the support they need to safeguard their mental wellbeing as they transition to adulthood.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
universityaffairs.ca | Mohamed BERRADA
According to the federal government, too many young people, particularly Millennials and Gen Zs, believe that their hard work isn’t paying off. The government also acknowledges that younger Canadians do not have the same opportunities that their parents and grandparents had. “None of this is their fault.” That statement comes directly from the federal budget tabled by Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on April 16.
