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Switching out seafood for poutine  All my life, I knew I wanted to travel quite far to go to university. I love my small hometown, but I needed to get out of rural Nova Scotia to see what else was out there. I had never heard of Bishop’s before, but I was drawn to its...
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When I finally decided it was time to do something with my life and get a better education, I never thought that I could’ve, especially without a high school diploma. Going to university was never a possibility for me. Well, turns out I was wrong. When I was living in Edmonton, Alberta, I had a...
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Embracing creativity and unleashing potential  What I found most challenging as an aspiring artist was to take the step to register for an undergraduate program in Fine Arts. It may sound silly, but it felt like a bold move, a self-affirming statement that was difficult to make for a blooming art enthusiast.   There are many...
Drs. Vicki Chartrand, Genner Llanes-Ortiz, and Alex Miltsov of Bishop’s University’s Sociology Department are working in partnership with Indigenous communities to organize, analyze, and mobilize Indigenous-led and Indigenous-based resources and supports to address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit (MMIWG2S+) persons.   They started the partnership because the existing resources and supports coming...
Dr. Jade Savage, of Bishop’s University’s Biology and Biochemistry Department, created eTick.ca, an online tick identification platform, so Canadians could access a single, free, and comprehensive tool to report tick encounters and benefit from trained personnel to identify the tick species, and find out if the tick that bit them could transmit pathogens causing Lyme...
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