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‘Total sunk cost’: Are time-bound online textbooks actually saving Canadian students money?

As a first-year Carleton student studying economics, Emilie Holt enjoys using term-limited digital electronic textbooks.  The move away from traditional textbooks makes for a more...
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Here’s how Valentine’s Day — and our conceptions of love — have changed over...

Theatre aisles lined with people. Rows of grocery store roses. Teddy bears. Valentine’s Day — and all its commercial classics — are back in our...

Leave library cubicles in 2025 — your next go-to study spots await you

If you’re going to study at Carleton, the library isn’t your only option. Actually, it’s now become my least favourite place to “lock-in.” With studying...
Five people - three facing to the camera and two facing away - are engaging in a seemingly vivacious conversation in a university classroom. They are all standing.

Carleton research findings reveal ways journalists can better report on Black communities

Journalism researchers are listening and reflecting on the negative impacts traditional news outlets have caused in their reporting on Black communities in Canada. Black journalists...
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New year, new apps: Meet the Carleton students looking to develop your next digital...

Students breed innovation: from Mark Zuckerberg’s early days developing Facebook to the invention of non-toxic fire extinguishers, student entrepreneurship is a mainstay of the...