Laura McGee entered law school three years ago planning on a career negotiating international trade deals. By second year, reality set in. “Once you look at recruiting opportunities, you start to think, ‘Who’s going to pay me to practise international law?’”. Staring down a six-figure debt, she decided to explore her options on Bay Street, Canada’s corporate capital, where there’s plenty of work for young lawyers.

About a week before Bruce Croxon announced in mid-March he was leaving the Dragon’s Den TV show, the venture capitalist was in an auditorium near Brock University hearing pitches from eager entrepreneurs and deciding who deserved a cash prize. The first presenter was obviously nervous, speeding so fast through his pitch about how to stop weeds popping up through cracks in driveways—it had something to do with equipment he was developing—that it was impossible to understand.

Graduating with a degree in mining engineering seems to be a ticket to a well-paying job.

The generation that embraced the entertainer as children welcomes him back—on campus.

A growing number of men are taking up quilting, many of them retired engineers.

Universities are good at imparting knowledge, but most fail when it comes to teaching students how to get a job.

One of my first assignments as a student reporter at the University of Guelph was a potential professors’ strike that was a major source of anxiety for students. It would have impacted graduate school applications, summer jobs and travel plans, not to mention our educations. The most maddening part was that our professors, who were already well paid and who seemed to have the most fulfilling jobs on the planet, were willing to take us hostage to make even more money.

Jimmy Jeong Before the hit series CSI , there was the Canadian documentary show Exhibit A , which traced the ways investigators had used high-tech scientific analysis to solve real-life crimes. As a teenager, Shannon Kroeker enjoyed the show so much she c

After years of being forced to attend phys-ed classes, computer programmers at a B.C. school revolt.

From the 21st Maclean’s University Rankings—on newsstands now. It’s the third week of her university career and Maya Helferty, a first-year sociology (soon to be philosophy) major at the University of Guelph, admits that she’s already skipping her women’s studies and sociology classes. “There’s no point to those lectures,” says the Canadian who went to high school in Pennsylvania.

To increase turnout, some schools are using online voting—with good and bad results.

Photograph by Brian Howell Keenan Midgley played basketball, soccer, baseball and football. But it isn’t his athletic skill that has made him well-known on campus in Burnaby, B.C. It’s the budget he’s written as treasurer of the Simon Fraser Student Socie