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Aug 16, 2022
Postdoctoral Scholar
I won a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship this funding cycle. I’m currently a postdoc in Australia, where the starting postdoc salary in my...
Aug 16, 2022
Postdoctoral Scholar
I did my PhD in Canada. I worked as a postdoc here for 2 years. Then moved to Australia for 3 years for postdoc work, then came back 2...
Aug 16, 2022
Graduate student and postdoctoral scholar-authored open letter
(Le texte en français suit plus bas à la page 2) The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada The Honourable...
Aug 14, 2022
Graduate Student
I'm approaching 30, I still live with my parents. I can't afford to buy a condo, or even to move into an apartment or buy a car. Forget...
Aug 14, 2022
Graduate Student
I am PhD student in Montreal. I have a doctoral scholarship from FRQS and my supervisor pays me a bonus. With all that my income is still...
Aug 14, 2022
Graduate Student
International PhD student - full time Scholarship: ~21,000 $ / year Tuition and fees: ~4,500 $ / year It means there's just 16,500 $ /...
Aug 14, 2022
Graduate Student
Despite working part/full-time since I was 15 throughout all of my time as a student, and living as frugally as possible, the meagre...
Aug 14, 2022
Graduate Student
McGill charge me extra sessions equivalent to around 5000$ a year, at my salary it means I am constantly in debt and crawling from month...
Aug 12, 2022
Des scientifiques réclament plus de financement dans une lettre de 60 mètres
Une des principales demandes des organisateurs de l’évènement « Soutenez notre science » est une augmentation de près de 48 % de la...
Aug 12, 2022
‘The future of science in Canada is at risk’: Researchers call for pay raise
In a University of Ottawa lab, Sarah Laframboise is hoping to advance cancer research by studying a gene that causes the disease in...
Aug 12, 2022
Scientists urge Ottawa to boost grant funding so researchers can earn ‘living wage’
Canadian scientists are urging the federal government to boost its funding for scientific grants so that post-doctorate students and...
Aug 12, 2022
‘Support our science’: Maritime scientists and grad students support call for increased science fund
After astrophysicist John Read finished his undergraduate degree at Saint Mary’s University, his search for a local master's program came...
Aug 12, 2022
Des meilleures bourses réclamées par les scientifiques afin de survivre à l’inflation
Plus d’une centaine de scientifiques en sarrau blanc se sont rassemblés jeudi après-midi sur la colline du Parlement à Ottawa, afin...
Aug 12, 2022
Mécontents du financement accordé aux jeunes chercheurs
Des centaines de scientifiques mécontents du financement accordé aux jeunes chercheurs des cycles supérieurs comptent manifester jeudi...
Aug 12, 2022
Ten years after the ‘death of evidence,’ scientists again march on Parliament Hill
Ten years ago, thousands of scientists and their supporters marched through Ottawa to Parliament Hill in the “death of evidence” rally....
Aug 12, 2022
RADIO: Grad students, postdocs rally for increased funding (10:45)
Students, professors and researchers are rallying on Parliament Hill today in support of increased government funding for graduate...
Aug 12, 2022
Politics This Morning: The sounds of science
Scientists and their sympathizers are taking to Parliament Hill today, to deliver a letter with a 60-plus metre-long collection of nearly...
Aug 12, 2022
Politics Briefing: Canadian researchers and scientists march for better compensation
Scientists and researchers marched on Parliament Hill Thursday for a Support our Science rally, with the group calling for a living wage...
Aug 12, 2022
Student scientists demand action on federal scholarships
Canadian graduate students in the sciences took to Parliament Hill on Thursday, pressing their case that the funding system which...
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