Category: News
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Campus Crisis: Alberta post-secondary schools grapple with mental health issues
The Edmonton Journal reports on the rise of, and response to, mental health issues on Alberta post-secondary campuses.
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Smartphones in the Classroom? Let Students Decide
On chroniclevitae.com, David Gooblar suggests that the question of the acceptable use of personal technology in the classroom – which is a contentious issue for many instructors – could be decided by the students themselves. One result of this approach, he writes, would be the removal of any unnecessary difficulty, stigma or discrimination placed upon…
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Calgary Herald: Success of first workplace mental health program hard to measure
From the January 17, 2014 issue of the Calgary Herald: “A year after launching Canada’s first national guidelines for workplace mental health, the agency behind the program says it doesn’t know how many employers are using it — or how.”
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U.S. Ratification of U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This past December 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities – the United States ambassador to the United Nations urged the U.S. Senate to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Last December, the Senate voted 61-38 in favour of the treaty, failing to meet the two-thirds majority needed for…
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Calgary Herald: Council votes to end fee for longer Access Calgary trips
As reported in the Calgary Herald, Calgary City Council voted unanimously Monday to scrap Access Calgary’s $20 surcharge for trips more than one kilometre from a regular transit stop.