University of Alberta

The University of Alberta in Edmonton is one of Canada’s top teaching and research universities, with an international reputation for excellence across the humanities, sciences, creative arts, business, engineering, and health sciences. Home to 39,000 students and 15,000 faculty and staff, the university has an annual budget of $1.84 billion and attracts nearly $450 million in sponsored research revenue. The U of A offers close to 400 rigorous undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs in 18 faculties on five campuses—including one rural and one francophone campus. The university has more than 275,000 alumni worldwide. The university and its people remain dedicated to the promise made in 1908 by founding president Henry Marshall Tory that knowledge shall be used for “uplifting the whole people.”

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Smoke from a steel plant in Hamilton, Ont. rises against a setting sun, as smoke from wildfires blankets the sky in June 2023. Industrial facilities face different technical and financial challenges in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

What a Chinese pollution crackdown can teach Canada about carbon pricing

Canada has lowered its planned industrial carbon price. Research from China shows why the effects of environmental rules depend on firms’ ability to adapt.
Students gather during National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events at City Hall in Toronto on Sept. 30, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

5 ways teachers can respond to residential school denialism in the classroom

When deciding whether and how to respond to residential schools denialism, teachers should consider the type of denialism, the students involved and their school and community context.
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has launched a lawsuit against an AI music generation platform. Singer-songwriter Allison Russell performs in honour of Joni Mitchell at the 2025 SOCAN awards in Toronto, on Sept. 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sammy Kogan

AI music lawsuits raise questions about American companies and Canadian arts

A recent survey of working musicians in Canada points to a growing discontent about AI in music, and points to how we could gain a music industry that allows Canadian music to flourish.
You can still get a sunburn even with sunscreen. It needs to be regularly re-applied and is best used in combination with other sun-protection elements such as clothing, shade and a hat. (Canva)

No safe tan: Why Canada’s sunburn problem keeps getting worse

Addressing sun exposure misinformation, such as online tanning trends and sunscreen myths, is important, but effective advice about UV protection is crucial, too. ‘No tan, no burn’ is the goal.
For people with disabilities, income support is one part of a broader household financial safety net. (Unsplash+)

Alberta’s disability benefit overhaul shifts more economic risk onto people with disabilities

Alberta’s move to shift disability recipients onto a lower-paying, employment-focused benefit assumes people can make up the difference through work, savings or family. Research suggests few can.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, attends a ceremony to mark the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth

China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.
A beaver at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park near Edmonton. Once a pond is completely covered in ice, beavers are confined below the surface for the winter. (Glynis Hood)

Beavers are emerging sooner in spring amid warmer weather

As our climate warms, beavers are appearing sooner and moving northward. This could have implications for the environment and human infrastructure.
A hydraulic monitor thaws permafrost with high-pressure water in the Klondike goldfields, Yukon — mining exposures that researchers used to access ancient ground ice and fossil records. (Duane Froese)

Earth’s deep memory is thawing with the Arctic permafrost, degrading records of our ancient world

Permafrost holds an extraordinary molecular record of ancient life — and we are only now learning to read it, just as warming begins to erase it.
The problem isn’t just boys engaging in technology-faciliated gender-based violence. It’s also how others in their environment react to these kinds of events. (Unsplash)

An Alberta school chat listed girls to assault. The response shows Canada still has a rape culture problem

The language used in response to gender-based violence erases who’s doing the harm and who’s experiencing it, making it harder to report on and easier to excuse.
A picture of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shaking hands with President of China Xi Jinping is seen on the cover of the weekend edition of the China Daily newspaper as a reader thumbs through the pages in Beijing, China in January 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

How China’s ‘red lines’ are quietly shaping global news reporting

Journalism exists to describe the world as it is, not as the powerful would like. The Chinese regime apparently feels differently.
What would it look like for students in different disciplines to meaningfully contribute to AI systems that iteratively generate, debate and evolve novel hypotheses for complex problems? (Alex Shuper/Unsplash)

Canada’s AI strategy and universities: Beyond literacy, students need to be fluent with AI

AI fluency implies a deep and critical understanding of emerging AI concepts and applications to equip students to innovate and create alongside AI systems.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses members of the Chinese community, Head Tax survivors and their families on Parliament Hill in June 2006 after his apology over the racist Head Tax once imposed on Chinese immigrants. (CP PHOTO/Fred Chartrand)

How not to say you’re sorry: Why governments keep getting apologies wrong

The best way to apologize involves making victims the primary focus, not the apologizing state. Apologies that prioritize rehumanizing victims prove more effective at rehumanizing apologizers too.
Fans arrive at the Cathedral of Saint-Jean-l'Evangeliste to watch the Montreal Canadiens play the Tampa Bay Lightning on a large screen during NHL playoff hockey in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., on April 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Edouard Desroches

What the Montreal Canadiens’ hockey playoff run reveals about faith, belonging and the sacred

Two scholars of religion examine what the devotion to the Montreal Canadiens reveals about spirituality, belonging and what people are actually searching for when they watch the game.

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