University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo is Canada’s top innovation university. With more than 36,000 students, Waterloo is home to the world’s largest co-operative education system of its kind. An unmatched entrepreneurial culture, combined with an intensive focus on research, powers one of the top innovation hubs in the world. Find out more at uwaterloo.ca

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Certaines études montrent que les compagnons IA peuvent réduire le sentiment de solitude, tandis que d'autres révèlent qu'ils rendent les utilisateurs plus solitaires et dépendants avec le temps. (Unsplash/Karla Rivera)

Mon copain IA était charmant. C’est bien ça le problème

Le caractère unilatéral des relations humain-IA pose problème. On peut recevoir beaucoup d’un compagnon IA, mais il y a moins qu’on peut lui donner.
Families expect to help, but they should not be expected to co-ordinate the entire health and social care systems for the person they care for. (Unsplash+/Getty Images)

Families provide dementia care. Why must they also be the air traffic controllers of the system?

Families are still expected to navigate disconnected health and community services on their own. A new report sets out what governments can do to change that.
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Partnerships between government, business and civil society are often tense: 3 tips on how to manage them

Partnerships need to grapple with the tension between what to preserve and what to change rather than be paralysed by it.
Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon stream combines a restored urban stream with pedestrian paths, stepped seating and bridges along a major downtown corridor. (Luna Khirfan)

Many cities buried urban streams. Here’s how to bring them back

Stream daylighting can help manage stormwater, restore habitats and create greener, more walkable public spaces.
Pris en étau entre des agrofournisseurs puissants et des chaînes d’épiceries dominantes, les agriculteurs canadiens doivent produire toujours plus pour atteindre le seuil de rentabilité. La Presse canadienne/Jacques Boissinot

Les exploitations agricoles au pays doivent croître pour survivre, et ce n’est bon ni pour les agriculteurs ni pour l’environnement

De nouvelles études montrent que la concentration des entreprises, axée sur les exportations, a fait de l’expansion des exploitations agricoles une condition indispensable à leur survie.
Para utilizar bactérias em terapias contra o câncer, médicos poderiam injetar em pacientes esporos dormentes de uma bactéria anaeróbica, que percorreriam a corrente sanguínea e permaneceriam inertes em tecidos saudáveis oxigenados, mas atacariam os tumores de dentro para fora. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

Cientistas modificam bactérias para combater câncer

Pesquisadores estão trabalhando para desenvolver bactérias capazes de destruir tumores cancerosos, reduzindo ao mesmo tempo os danos às células e tecidos saudáveis do paciente
Caught between powerful input suppliers and dominant grocery chains, Canadian farmers face a structural squeeze that forces them to produce more just to break even. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Canadian farms must keep growing to survive — and farmers and the environment are paying for it

New research shows that corporate concentration, the agricultural treadmill and export-driven policy have turned farm expansion into a survival requirement.
To employ these bacteria in cancer therapies, doctors could inject a patient with dormant spores of an anaerobe. Those spores would travel through the bloodstream and remain inert in healthy oxygenated tissue. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

How we are engineering bacteria to eat cancer

Researchers are working to engineer bacteria that can kill cancerous tumours while reducing harm to healthy cells and tissue.
David, joueur de l'équipe « Canada’s Promise », tente un tir au but lors d'un match contre la Suisse à Vancouver, le 24 juin 2026. La Presse canadienne/Darryl Dyck

Coupe du monde : pour qui prendre parti lorsque l’équipe de votre pays d’accueil affronte celui de vos origines ? Un dilemme pour de nombreux Néo‑Canadiens

Le succès de l’équipe canadienne à la Coupe du monde constitue une occasion pour étudier comment les personnes vivant dans des régions multiculturelles choisissent l’équipe qu’elles soutiennent.
People hold hands along São Conrado beach for a symbolic group hug with the sea on World Oceans Day in Rio de Janeiro, in June 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Ocean conservation needs strong relationships, not just targets

There is no shortage of global objectives and targets driving ocean conservation. However, protecting oceans depends on the communities that steward them.

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