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First-year medical students accepted into the program at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon will have to submit to a criminal record check before entering the school’s college of medicine.

Over a thousand Quebec students will rally to protest tuition hikes Dec. 6 despite exam season, thwarting what they see as a Ministry of Education plan to discourage student attendance, said Leo Bureau-Bloin, the president of the Quebec Federation of College Students (FECQ).  

Carleton University may join several other Canadian universities by considering a partnership with Navitas, an organization specializing in teaching international students with low academic standing.

Ancient alchemists were said to be able to transform straw into gold. Now modern Canadian scientists are transforming adult skin into blood.

A four-by-three centimetre patch of skin is all that Dr. Mick Bhatia and his team of researchers at McMaster University need to grow enough blood to transfuse an adult human being.