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PRESS RELEASE: Support Our Science Responds to Budget 2023

Ottawa, ON: Support Our Science (SOS) has worked tirelessly over the last year to advocate for increased funding to graduate students and...

Canada's grants for master's, PhD students haven't increased since 2003. CBC News

Students doing graduate-level research say Canada risks losing its future scientists to other countries because the dollar amounts of...

Support Our Science on Quirks and Quarks

Support Our Science was featured on CBC's Quirks and Quarks on October 8th, 2022. Listen to stories from graduate students and...

Senator Kucher statement on graduate student and postdoc funding

On November 29, Senator Kucher gave a statement in the Senate on the importance of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in Canada....

Pre-Budget Consultations for Budget 2023- Briefing by Support Our Science

Support Our Science was excited to submit our first briefing to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance in advance of the 2023...

Des scientifiques réclament plus de financement dans une lettre de 60 mètres

Une des principales demandes des organisateurs de l’évènement « Soutenez notre science » est une augmentation de près de 48 % de la...

‘The future of science in Canada is at risk’: Researchers call for pay raise

In a University of Ottawa lab, Sarah Laframboise is hoping to advance cancer research by studying a gene that causes the disease in...

Scientists urge Ottawa to boost grant funding so researchers can earn ‘living wage’

Canadian scientists are urging the federal government to boost its funding for scientific grants so that post-doctorate students and...

‘Support our science’: Maritime scientists and grad students support call for increased science fund

After astrophysicist John Read finished his undergraduate degree at Saint Mary’s University, his search for a local master's program came...

NIGHTLY NEWS: CTV National News - Better Support for Scientists (2:05)

Des meilleures bourses réclamées par les scientifiques afin de survivre à l’inflation

Plus d’une centaine de scientifiques en sarrau blanc se sont rassemblés jeudi après-midi sur la colline du Parlement à Ottawa, afin...

Mécontents du financement accordé aux jeunes chercheurs

Des centaines de scientifiques mécontents du financement accordé aux jeunes chercheurs des cycles supérieurs comptent manifester jeudi...

Ten years after the ‘death of evidence,’ scientists again march on Parliament Hill

Ten years ago, thousands of scientists and their supporters marched through Ottawa to Parliament Hill in the “death of evidence” rally....

RADIO: Grad students, postdocs rally for increased funding (10:45)

Students, professors and researchers are rallying on Parliament Hill today in support of increased government funding for graduate...

Politics This Morning: The sounds of science

Scientists and their sympathizers are taking to Parliament Hill today, to deliver a letter with a 60-plus metre-long collection of nearly...

Politics Briefing: Canadian researchers and scientists march for better compensation

Scientists and researchers marched on Parliament Hill Thursday for a Support our Science rally, with the group calling for a living wage...

Student scientists demand action on federal scholarships

Canadian graduate students in the sciences took to Parliament Hill on Thursday, pressing their case that the funding system which...

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