More PhDs finding jobs as tenure-track professors, study says #GlobeAndMail

More PhDs finding jobs as tenure-track professors, study says
Globe & Mail, 25 January 2016

"A third of graduates with doctoral degrees from Ontario universities are in tenure-track positions somewhere in the world, with half of them working as professors in Canada, the study from the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario found."

When I was worried about my future as a graduate student my thesis advisor told me “the good people always get jobs.” I’m glad to see despite all the current gloom and doom the future for our graduates students is so encouraging and indeed “some things never change.”

Echoes of Walkerton in Environment Canada cuts

Prof. Thomas Duck writes:

The cost of the Walkerton tragedy was estimated at the commission to be between $64.5 million and $155 million. It remains to be seen what the cuts to Environment Canada will ultimately cost us — both financially and in human terms.

Read the full piece in the Toronto Star to appreciate the damage the Harper government is doing to the public by their attack on environmental science.

Echoes of Walkerton in Environment Canada cuts | Toronto Star

Hey rest of the world: you gonna let us get away with this: Canadian ozone network faces axe : Nature News

via nature.com

This article is no joke, the Harper Government wants Environment Canada out of the business of measuring ozone, including some of the most critical locations for ozone measurements in the high Arctic. If you find this unpalatable then let the Canadian government know this anyway you can!