March 23, 2026

Canadore College has received $2M as part of a broader federal investment into initiatives in the Nipissing-Timiskaming region. The funds will support the first and second phases of the development of Canadore’s Advanced Training Simulation Wing, which is focused on aviation education and research. Canadore will also use the funds to establish a Product Development Fund, which will be used to help businesses commercialize their new products. Canadore President Dr Sandra Efu remarked that the funding “will give us the capacity to engage in projects that meet the immediate and future needs of students, the defence sector, businesses and organizations across northern Ontario.”

Niagara College and Okanagan College have established a partnership focused on strengthening wine education. As part of the agreement, Okanagan College will be able to offer and adapt Niagara College’s Winery and Viticulture Technician curriculum for use in the Okanagan region. This programming is expected to be available in Fall 2027 through Okanagan’s upcoming Centre for Food, Wine and Tourism. Niagara VP Academic Dr Fay Lim-Lambie and Okanagan Hall School of Business Dean Joe Baker noted that the partnership will take advantage of Niagara’s “world-class” wine education and Okanagan’s location in a UNESCO-designated City of Gastronomy. The institutions will also explore future collaborations, including exchange programs and joint or collaborative research.

Several members of the New Brunswick postsecondary sector have expressed their relief and concerns in the wake of the 2026-27 provincial budget. While many were glad that the anticipated 10% cut to postsecondary funding was not realized, members of the sector told CTV News that the grant freeze for postsecondary institutions was still effectively a cut, considering inflation. NB MLA Megan Mitton and several student union representatives also voiced their concerns about the potential for future cuts and tuition increases. Your Saint John notes that the Université de Moncton has announced the acceleration of its “operational transformation process” in response to the “real revenue loss” created by the freeze.

The University of the Fraser Valley celebrated the opening of its Lá:léms Ye EverGreen student residence and an expanded Cascade Café dining hall last week. The six-storey mass-timber residence has space for nearly 400 students and contains secure bike storage, shower facilities, and shared spaces for students to connect. The expanded Cascade Café dining hall provides students with improved food services and increased seating to reflect the university’s growing on-campus population. UFV President Dr James Mandigo explained that the opportunity for students to live and eat on campus will “create an environment where students can connect, support one another, and grow into leaders who will strengthen our communities.”

The University of Calgary’s Department of Economics has launched the Research Program on Competition and Regulation (RPCR), which will provide a bridge between academic research and policy challenges. UCalgary RPCR co-directors Jeffrey Church and Aidan Hollis say that they created the program in response to the way that regulation and competition policy have become untethered from their economic moorings. “Canada lacks a dedicated research program embedded within a university that focuses on the practice and policy of regulation and competition enforcement,” said Hollis. UCalgary says that this is the first program of its kind at a Canadian university.

Laurentian University’s Senate has announced that it will hold a vote in April on a motion of non-confidence in Laurentian President Lynn Wells and the university’s board of governors. The Sudbury Star reports that members of the Laurentian University Faculty Association had voted in favour of a non-confidence motion earlier in the year, but that the motion presented at the Senate was independent of the faculty association. Wells said that she plans to hold listening sessions to engage with the university’s community, explaining that “this process responds to some challenging times we have faced recently.”

Memorial University’s Pye Centre has received an $800K investment from RBC Foundation to support the farm’s work in the community. Funding will support several of the farm’s Nourish the North initiatives, including the Digital Farm Training Program, Farmer-Scientist Knowledge Exchange, and On-Farm Learning and Wellness Programs. “The centre is foundational to how we teach and conduct research at Labrador Campus, and this investment allows us to expand programs that connect people with the land, support local food production and build capacity across the region,” explained Memorial Labrador Campus Interim Dean Dr Scott Neilsen.

The commodification of publication credit is a “scandal lying in plain sight,” according to Bruce Macfarlane (Education University of Hong Kong) and Jason Yeung-Tarre (University of Melbourne). The authors say that while this is a cultural norm in their field, distributing credit in any way other than by the contribution of intellectual work is ultimately fraud. They identify four types of co-authorship fraud—power gifting, power ordering, academic cronyism, and crony ordering—which they say may boost early-career authors in the short term but harm them in the long term. The authors note positive changes made by some journals, such as using equal co-authorship, and call on universities to provide more training on authorship ethics.

Judge DE Labach of the Court of King’s Bench in Saskatchewan has awarded $70K in damages to University of Regina Associate Professor Michelle Coupal after ruling that she was defamed. Coupal sued University of Ottawa Associate Professor Darryl Leroux—who CBC says is an Indigenous identity scholar—for defamation over statements made in 2021 and 2022 about Coupal’s claims to Indigenous identity. In his decision, Labach explained that the defamation occurred when Leroux alleged that Coupal had intentionally committed fraud, pretended to be Indigenous, and relied on forged documents. Leroux’s lawyer told CBC that he intends to appeal.

Statistics Canada has released the experimental estimates for the Survey on Research Activities and Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Higher Education (SRACIPHE) for 2023. StatCan explains that SRACIPHE is a census of all universities, colleges, and hospitals or specialized health institutions that have engaged in at least $1M in research and development activities in the three previous years. StatCan says that this release reflects the first iteration of the survey, which is a developmental program measuring research and commercialization of IP in Canadian PSE. The tables include the experimental estimates for research and development activities, intellectual property (IP) output and management, technology transfers, and obstacles to commercialization of IP.