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Reports that University of Ottawa business professor Jimming Lin was found guilty of plagiarizing a graduate student's paper. The university found liable; Amount of compensation to be paid to the student.

Reports that two of Canada's research institutions, the University of Toronto and McGill University, have lost influence in the past decades. Results of the Institute for Scientific Information's study on the frequency with which scientific papers from Canadian universities had been cited in other academic papers from 1973 to 1988.

This article reports on the order given by the Canadian Supreme Court to a Newfoundland university to pay a former student nearly a million dollars for wrongly reporting to the province's Child Protection Services 12 years ago that she could be a sexual abuser. The saga began in 1994, when Wanda Young, who was taking a correspondence course on social work from Memorial University of Newfoundland, wrote a term paper on juvenile sex offenders. Young's professor speculated to colleagues and superiors that the appendix was a personal confession and a cry for help, the ruling says.