Western University

Founded in 1878, Western University in London, Ontario is one of Canada’s leading research-intensive universities, combining academic excellence with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social and cultural growth in the arts, humanities, engineering, sciences, health sciences, social sciences, business and law. With research collaborations on every continent and students and faculty trained far and wide, Western is actively engaged internationally. Western’s campus community is comprised of more than 38,000 students from 127 countries, 3,800 faculty and staff and 294,000 alumni in 154 countries. Western offers nearly 500 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in 11 faculties, a School of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies and three affiliated university colleges. Western is proud to provide Canada’s best student experience.

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Le sommeil pourrait compter plus qu'on ne le pense pour se protéger du stress chronique au travail. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

Contre le stress chronique, le sommeil et l’alimentation feraient plus pour la santé que l’exercice

Une étude menée auprès de travailleurs canadiens le confirme : sommeil et alimentation protègent mieux la santé contre le stress chronique au travail que l’exercice.
Students who use cannabis may also experience irregular schedules, higher energy drink consumption or other behaviours that influence diet quality. (Unsplash+/Peter Muniz)

What cannabis use really tells us about university students’ eating habits

Researchers surveyed more than 1,500 students at a large Canadian university to better understand the relationship between cannabis use and diet quality.
Pour réduire les collisions d’oiseaux contre les bâtiments, il faut commencer par respecter les lignes directrices de conception dès la phase de planification. (Unsplash)

Pour protéger les oiseaux, les vitres anti‑collision doivent devenir la norme

Au Canada, des dizaines de millions d’oiseaux sont tués chaque année lors de collision dans des fenêtres d’édifices.
Smoke billows into the sky following Ukrainian drone strikes on warehouses of Russia’s online retailer Wildberries, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 24, 2026, with St. Isaac’s Cathedral seen in foreground. (UGC via AP)

Ukraine’s drone strikes are having an impact on Russia — but Russian leaders remain committed to war

Despite successful Ukrainian drone strikes, it’s unlikely either Vladimir Putin’s regime or the Russia-Ukraine war will end any time soon.
England’s Lucy Robinson, rear right, throws a basket under pressure from Canada’s Kathleen Dandenau, rear left, during a 3x3 women’s wheelchair basketball match between Canada and England at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

The Commonwealth Games celebrate integrated para sport, but they also expose inequalities

If the Commonwealth Games showcase sporting excellence, they also expose profound differences in who has the opportunity to reach the starting line.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand shake hands following talks at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., in November 2025. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

Canada backs the International Criminal Court — but U.S. threats require a delicate balancing act

Here’s why Canada is in a tricky spot when it comes to saying more to counter the many inaccurate claims made about the ICC by the United States.
Volunteers collected and arranged thousands of birds killed by collisions with buildings in the Greater Toronto Area in 2024. (Patricia Homonylo)

Bird‑safe glass must become the norm to prevent collisions with buildings

In Canada, tens of millions of birds are killed annually by crashing into glass on buildings.
Real images of violent content used to remain in the internet’s dark corners. Now they circulate widely on mainstream social media. (Unsplash)

Most Canadian teens have seen graphic violence online, and algorithms — not searches — are to blame

Eighty-five per cent of teens have seen gore online, but only seven per cent searched for it. Current content moderation and safety features aren’t fixing the problem.
The screen shows a VAR decision during the World Cup Group I soccer match between France and Senegal in East Rutherford, N.J., near New York, on June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

World Cup VAR controversies show why human referees should decide where potential fouls begin

Two overturned World Cup goals, in Argentina-Egypt and Norway-England, show that replay can reveal a foul, but only a referee can decide how far back the review should go.
If a baseball team devoting one of its 81 home games to a Pride Night causes this much backlash, sports leagues clearly still have work to do to build acceptance of LGBTQ+ people in their spaces. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Pride Nights built LGBTQ+ inclusion in pro sports over three decades. That progress is now under pressure

Pride Nights have always drawn both celebration and backlash. The latest flashpoint featuring the San Francisco Giants shows how unsettled that balance has become.

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