#Canadian Colleges

[shreehari22]

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Top Ranking Institutes to Study in Canada

Canada is renowned for its high-quality education system, making it a sought-after destination for international students. When considering where to study in Canada, it is essential to choose an institute that meets your academic goals and provides excellent learning opportunities. This article highlights some of the top ranking institutes in Canada across universities, colleges, and specialized institutions.

Canada offers a diverse range of educational institutions known for their academic excellence, research contributions, and state-of-the-art facilities. Whether you’re interested in pursuing a degree, diploma, or specialized training, there are numerous options to explore.

Factors to Consider When Choosing a Canadian Institute

Before delving into the top ranking institutes in Canada, it is crucial to consider various factors when making your decision. These factors include:

Program offerings: Determine if the institute offers programs aligned with your academic and career aspirations.

Reputation and rankings: Research the institute’s reputation and rankings, considering factors such as teaching quality, research output, and student satisfaction.

Location: Assess the location’s appeal, including factors such as climate, proximity to urban centers, and lifestyle.

Scholarships and funding opportunities: Explore the availability of scholarships, grants, and financial aid to support your studies.

Campus facilities and resources: Consider the institute’s libraries, research centers, laboratories, and extracurricular facilities.

Alumni network and career services: Look into the institute’s network of alumni and the support they provide for career development.

Top-Ranking Universities in Canada

Toronto Metropolitan University:- Toronto Metropolitan University is at the intersection of mind and action. What our students learn in the classroom is enhanced by real-world knowledge and experience. We champion diversity, entrepreneurship and innovation. Know for innovative and career driven education quality.

Reputed in student oriented institute of higher education.

Offering wide range of Graduate & Under Graduate programs.

Brock University:- Brock University is one of Canada’s top post-secondary institutions. Located in historic Niagara region, Brock offers all the benefits of a young and modern university in a safe, community-minded city with beautiful natural surroundings. 

With more than 19,000 students in seven diverse Faculties, Brock University offers an academic experience that’s second to none.

Degree programs are designed with your future in mind.

Focus on your career with co-op and service learning options that provide maximum exposure to your chosen field of study.

McMaster University:- McMaster University is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1887 and has since grown to become one of the leading universities in Canada. McMaster is known for its innovative approaches to education and research, as well as its commitment to student engagement and experiential learning.

Recognized for its innovative teaching methods and strong research focus.

Offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs across various disciplines.

Known for its health sciences programs and research-intensive environment.

Lakehead University:- Lakehead University is a public research university with campuses in Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1965, it is known for its comprehensive programs, research opportunities, and commitment to excellence in education.

Offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs across various disciplines.

The university prides itself on its research-intensive environment, fostering innovation and discovery.

Both the Thunder Bay and Orillia campuses of Lakehead University provide unique opportunities for students.

Wilfrid Laurier University:- Wilfrid Laurier University is a public university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1911 and named after Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada. The university is known for its strong academic programs, commitment to experiential learning, and emphasis on community engagement.

Undergraduate and graduate programs in various disciplines

Allow students to apply their knowledge in real-world settings and develop practical skills

Laurier has two main campuses: the Waterloo campus and the Brantford campus.

Centennial College:- Choosing the right institute is essential for a fulfilling educational experience in Canada. Consider the factors that matter most to you, such as program offerings, reputation, location, and support services. Explore the top-ranking universities, colleges, and specialized institutes mentioned in this article to find the one that aligns with your academic goals and aspirations.

Offers a diverse range of diploma, certificate, and degree programs across various disciplines.

Known for its focus on experiential learning and industry partnerships.

Seneca College:- Seneca College is a public college located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1967, it is one of the largest colleges in Canada and offers a wide range of programs designed to prepare students for careers in various fields.

Provides hands-on, career-focused programs in areas such as business, technology, and arts.

Offers a wide range of diplomas, certificates, and degree programs.

George Brown College:- George Brown College is a public college located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1967, it is one of  the largest colleges in the province and offers a wide range of programs to prepare students for successful careers in various fields.

Offers a variety of programs in areas such as hospitality, culinary arts, business, and design.

Known for its industry connections and emphasis on practical skills.

Humber College:- Humber College is a public college located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1967, it is one of the largest and most respected colleges in Ontario, offering a diverse range of programs designed to prepare students for successful careers.

Provides a wide range of programs in fields such as media, health sciences, business, and technology.

Known for its strong industry partnerships and focus on experiential learning.

Sheridan College:- Sheridan College is a public college located in Ontario, Canada, with campuses in Brampton, Mississauga, and Oakville. Established in 1967, it is recognized as one of the leading colleges in Ontario and offers a wide range of programs in various fields.

Recognized for its programs in arts, animation, design, and film production.

Offers a mix of diploma, certificate, and degree programs.

        6. Conestoga College:- Conestoga College is a public college located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1967, it is one of the leading colleges in Ontario, offering a wide range of programs designed to meet the needs of students seeking practical skills and career-focused education.

Provides over 200 full-time programs across various disciplines

The college is known for its emphasis on applied learning and hands-on experience.

Conestoga College offers a vibrant campus life with numerous extracurricular activities and student services.

Choosing the right institute is essential for a fulfilling educational experience in Canada. Consider the factors that matter most to you, such as program offerings, reputation, location, and support services. Explore the top-ranking universities, colleges, and specialized institutes mentioned in this article to find the one that aligns with your academic goals and aspirations.

[pit-2-podium]

I really think the Williams team hasn't realized how much of their treatment towards Logan has lost them a lot of good will among fans. Like take his lap of legends, so much work went in to that, (from Logan, Williams Alumni, and the team behind it), was such a big opportunity, and really could have had generated some much needed good pr for the team and Logan, especially with the team and their treatment of Logan. Yet they allowed it to be overshadowed by the Alex announcement, like really you couldn't have waited at least a few days?

The moment Logan leaves I can see a lot of fans, just not interacting with Williams content anymore. As much as we talk about Alex and James Vowles being the ones who are restructuring/rebuilding Williams you can't forget Logan has also been a major face of that movement. All of their new era content, like their podcasts and interviews, Logan has played a major part in and I think a lot of fans will have a bad taste in their mouth watching once he leaves on such bad terms. Because realistically Logan has the perfect personality for that type of content and it will be nearly impossible to replace him there, its why he and Alex work together so well, they can match the energy and tangents.

Then you have to take into account of them Americans and drive to survive people. They get a lot of hate for either liking the sport at all or how they get into it. Logan is their driver, if you look at social media beyond Instagram comments you will find so much support for him. It is one thing to drop Logan as a driver because he's under-preforming (though I have thoughts about That to) but to go from saying you are going to do everything to help logan to publicly flirting with new drivers? Thats just rude. And now Williams are shutting themselves off from these markets/fan bases. I'm sorry but realistically Logan is leaving F1 and Americans will no longer have a home driver to root for and they will blame Williams for that so people will not stick around.

TLDR; Williams by being dicks have shot themselves in the foot next year publicity wise

[allthecanadianpolitics]

International students in Toronto will be adversely affected by an impending federal rule that will limit them to working 24 hours a week off-campus when school is in session, students and advocates say. Immigration Minister Marc Miller said last spring the new rules would take effect in September, however a spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said in an email that the federal department is still working toward implementing the regulatory changes this fall. They could not provide a more specific timeline.  Miller previously said the 24-hour cap will ensure international students can focus on their studies, while having the option to work. "Students who want to come here have to realize that they can only work 24 hours in order to offset some of their costs or bring the material resources themselves when they come here," Miller said on April 29.

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment?

I'm coming to DEFCON! On Aug 9, I'm emceeing the EFF POKER TOURNAMENT (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the BRICKED AND ABANDONED panel (5PM, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I'm giving a keynote called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification" (noon, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01).

Barbra Streisand is famous for many things: her exciting performances on the big screen, the small screen, and the stage; her Grammy-winning career as a musician (she's a certified EGOT!); and for all the times she's had to correct people who've added an extra vowel to the spelling of her first name (I can relate!).

But a thousand years from now, her legacy is likely to be linguistic, rather than artistic. The "Streisand Effect" – coined by Mike Masnick – describes what happens when someone tries to suppress a piece of information, only to have that act of attempted suppression backfire by inciting vastly more interest in the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The term dates to 2003, when Streisand sued the website Pictopia and its proprietors for $50m for reproducing an image from the publicly available California Coastal Records Project (which produces a timeseries of photos of the California coastline in order to track coastal erosion). The image ("Image 3850") incidentally captured the roofs of Streisand's rather amazing coastal compound, which upset Streisand.

But here's the thing: before Streisand's lawsuit, Image 3850 had only been viewed six times. After she filed the case, another 420,000 people downloaded that image. Not only did Streisand lose her suit (disastrously so – she was ordered to pay the defendants' lawyers $177,000 in fees), but she catastrophically failed in her goal of keeping this boring, obscure photo from being seen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Streisand has since called the suit "a mistake." On the one hand, that is very obviously true, but on the other hand, it's still admirable, given how many other failed litigants went to their graves insisting that their foolish and expensive legal gambit was, in fact, very smart and we are all very stupid for failing to understand that.

Which brings me to Ian Linkletter and the Canadian Privacy Library. Linkletter is the librarian and founder of the nonprofit Canadian Privacy Library, a newish online library that collects and organizes privacy-related documents from Canadian public institutions. Linkletter kicked off the project with the goal of collecting the Privacy Impact Assessments from every public university in Canada, starting in his home province of BC.

These PIAs are a legal requirement whenever a public university procures a piece of software, and they're no joke. Ed-tech vendors are pretty goddamned cavalier when it comes to student privacy, as Linkletter knows well. Back in 2020, Linkletter was an ed-tech specialist for the University of British Columbia, where he was called upon to assess Proctorio, a "remote invigilation" tool that monitored remote students while they sat exams.

This is a nightmare category of software, a mix of high-tech phrenology (vendors claim that they can tell when students are cheating by using "AI" to analyze their faces); arrogant techno-sadism (vendors requires students – including those sharing one-room apartments with "essential worker" parents on night shifts who sleep during the day – to pan their cameras around to prove that they are alone); digital racism (products are so bad at recognizing Black faces that some students have had to sit exams with multiple task-lights shining directly onto their faces); and bullshit (vendors routinely lie about their tools' capabilities and efficacy).

Worst: remote invigilation is grounded in the pedagogically bankrupt idea that learning is best (or even plausibly) assessed through high-stakes testing. The kind of person who wants to use these tools generally has no idea how learning works and thinks of students as presumptively guilty cheats. They monitor test-taking students in realtime, and have been known to jiggle test-takers' cursors impatiently when students think too long about their answers. Remote invigilation also captures the eye-movements of test-takers, flagging people who look away from the screen while thinking for potential cheating. No wonder that many students who sit exams under these conditions find themselves so anxious that they vomit or experience diarrhea, carefully staring directly into the camera as they shit themselves or vomit down their shirts, lest they be penalized for looking away or visiting the toilet.

Linkletter quickly realized that Proctorio is a worst-in-class example of a dreadful category. The public-facing materials the company provided about its products were flatly contradicted by the materials they provided to educators, where all the really nasty stuff was buried. The company – whose business exploded during the covid lockdowns – is helmed by CEO Mike Olsen, a nasty piece of work who once doxed a child who criticized him in an online forum:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#moral-exemplar

Proctorio's products are shrouded in secrecy. In 2020, for reasons never explained, all the (terrible, outraged) reviews of its browser plugin disappeared from the Chrome store:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency

Linkletter tweeted his alarming findings, publishing links to the unlisted, but publicly available Youtube videos where Proctorio explained how its products really worked. Proctorio then sued Linkletter, for copyright infringement.

Proctorio's argument is that by linking to materials that they published on Youtube with permissions that let anyone with the link see them, Linkletter infringed upon their copyright. When Linkletter discovered that these videos already had publicly available links, indexed by Google, in the documentation produced by other Proctorio customers for students and teachers, Proctorio doubled down and argued that by collecting these publicly available links to publicly available videos, Linkletter had still somehow infringed on their copyright.

Luckily for Linkletter, BC has an anti-SLAPP law that is supposed to protect whistleblowers facing legal retaliation for publishing protected speech related to matters of public interest (like whether BC's flagship university has bought a defective and harmful product that its students will be forced to use). Unluckily for Linkletter, the law is brand new, lacks jurisprudence, and the courts have decided that he can't use a SLAPP defense and his case must go to trial:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/#free-ian-linkletter

Linkletter could have let that experience frighten him away from the kind of principled advocacy that riles up deep-pocketed, thin-skinned bullies. Instead, he doubled down, founding the Canadian Privacy Library, with the goal of using Freedom of Information requests to catalog all of Canada's post-secondary institutions' privacy assessments. Given how many bodies he found buried in Proctorio's back yard, this feels like the kind of thing that should be made more visible to Canadians.

There are 25 public universities in BC, and Linkletter FOI'ed them all. Eleven provided their PIAs. Eight sent him an estimate of what it would cost them (and thus what they would charge) to assemble these docs for him. Six requested extensions.

One of them threatened to sue.

Langara College is a 19,000-student spinout of Vancouver Community College whose motto is Eruditio Libertas Est ("Knowledge is Freedom"). Linkletter got their 2019 PIA for Microsoft's Office 365 when he FOI'ed the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (universities often recycle one another's privacy impact assessments, which is fine).

That's where the trouble started. In June, Langara sent Linkletter a letter demanding that he remove their Office 365 PIA; the letter CC'ed two partners in a law firm, and accused Linkletter of copyright infringement. But that's not how copyright – or public records – work. As Linkletter writes, the PIA is "a public record lawfully obtained through an FOI request" – it is neither exempted from disclosure, nor is it confidential:

https://www.privacylibrary.ca/legal-threat/

Langara claims that in making their mandatory Privacy Impact Assessment for Office 365 available, Linkletter has exposed them to "heightened risks of data breaches and privacy incidents," they provided no evidence to support this assertion.

I think they're full of shit, but you don't have to take my word for it. After initially removing the PIA, Linkletter restored it, and you can read it for yourself:

https://www.privacylibrary.ca/langara-college-privacy-impact-assessments/

I read it. It is pretty goddamned anodyne – about as exciting as looking at the roof of Barbra Streisand's mansion.

Sometimes, where there's smoke, there's only Streisand – a person who has foolishly decided to use the law to bully a weaker stranger out of disclosing some innocuous and publicly available fact about themselves. But sometimes, where there's smoke, there's fire. A lot of people who read my work are much more familiar with ed-tech, privacy, and pedagogy than I am. If that's you, maybe you want to peruse the Langara PIA to see if they are hiding something because they're exposing their students to privacy risks and don't want that fact to get out.

There are plenty of potential privacy risks in Office 365! The cloud version of Microsoft Office contains a "bossware" mode that allows bosses to monitor their workers' keystrokes for spelling, content, and accuracy, and produce neat charts of which employees are least "productive." The joke's on the boss, though: Office 365 also has a tool that lets you compare your department's usage of Office 365 to your competitors, which is another way of saying that Microsoft is gathering your trade secrets and handing it out to your direct competitors:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

So, yeah, there are lots of "features" in Office 365 that could give rise to privacy threats when it is used at a university. One hopes that Langara correctly assessed these risks and accounted for them in its PIA, which would mean that they are bullying Linkletter out of reflex, rather than to cover up wrongdoing. But there's only one way to find out: go through the doc that Linkletter has restored to public view.

Linkletter has excellent pro bono representation from Norton Rose Fulbright, a large and powerful law-firm that is handling his Proctorio case. Linkletter writes, "they have put this public college on notice that any proceeding is liable to be dismissed pursuant to the Protection of Public Participation Act, BC’s anti-SLAPP legislation."

Langara has now found themselves at the bottom of a hole, and if they're smart, they'll stop digging.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/01/eruditio-libertas-est/#streisand-v-linkletter

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Fair use (parody) https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1104

Fair dealing (parody) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1468015

[floral-ashes]

Teaching criminal law is a wild ride. I taught about glory holes today.

[fly-the-pattern]

[beatrack92]

Erin Vringer (Utah)

2024 Pac-12 Championships (Boulder, CO)

[beefbungus]

These face cards never decline pt2

[mylifeiscomics]

Part 2 - College AU

Rose is starting to get into the lectures in a way she didn’t expect.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A disciplinary hearing resumed Monday morning for a B.C. nurse facing allegations of unprofessional conduct over her public statements about transgender people.

The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives' discipline committee is considering whether Amy Hamm's public statements denying the gender identities of transgender people amount to unprofessional conduct.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[oldshowbiz]

March 2001.

An Evening with Funny Canadians.

[usarmytrooper]

He’s really proud of Canada. What the hell for?

“Why, oh why, do we let you be a country?” Barney Stimson, on Canada.

This guy is easy on the eyes though.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"DYING GIRL FOUND IN CORN FIELD," Cobalt Daily Nugget. December 22, 1913. Page 1. ---- Finnish Girl Expires and Death Mystifies Police ---- (By Canadian Press.) TORONTO, Dec. 22. - On Dec. 4th Annie Jokinson, a Finnish girl, employed at Annesley Hall, the girl students residence of Victoria College, while out for a walk in the northern part of the city, disappeared. Yesterday she was lying under the shelter of a found corn stook in a field at the corner of Eglinton Ave. and Forest Hill road in a dying condition, and expired shortly after being carried to a nearby farm house. The police are mystified.

[phlurrii]

So I figured out what’s wrong with my brushes, turns out procreate pushes the Apple Pencil to its limits! So when the pencil breaks, so does procreate ;w;

After having a TIME last night figuring this out and coming to terms with having to blow 200$ on a new pen a month before moving, it was pointed out I should maybe open up some commissions. So whenever my new pen arrives in these next few days, I’ll be opening up comms to refill the dip into savings I’ll have to take! I wanna also state these are NOT emergency commissions in any way, shape, or form. Simply a surprise expense that puts me in the theoretical savings hole and brain no likey when I have to diverge from my meticulously planned monthly expenses TwT

[soft-girl-musings]

what was up with abc family's obsession with having all these high school students involved with legal adults

[sarab004]

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