The title "Associate Professor", which is commonly used in North America, is "[usually connected to tenure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_professor)" in that it is almost exclusively given to tenured or permanent professors who are higher in rank than Assistant Professors. This has also been explained in previous Academia.SE questions, for example:

 -  (1) [Associate Professor to Assistant Professor](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/138416/93303)
 - (2) [Assistant professor vs Associate professor](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2536/assistant-professor-vs-associate-professor)

Within the last year, someone also asked here about the awarding of the Associate Professor title to people without doctorates: https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/165611/93303, and we learned there that in UK there's Professorships awarded in Law and Engineering (and I wouldn't be surprised if also in Medicine) to people without doctorates. 


I wonder if there's any precedent for people being given this title ***without a PhD*** in Canada? I wouldn't be surprised if people have this title after getting a JD, MD, PharmD, PEng, etc., so specifically **I am wondering about people who have only an undergrad degree <!-- (apart from law, medicine, engineering, pharmacy)--> and/or Masters.**

The reason for my question, is because it looks like a U15 university in Canada (I might as well just say openly that it's University of Waterloo) says that they will be re-labeling Continuing Lecturers into Associate Processors:  

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Continuing Lecturers (soon to become Associate Professors), often enough do not have a PhD (for example [here](http://wolczuk.com/CV.pdf) and [here](https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathematics/people-profiles/joe-west)). I understand that other Canadian universities (e.g. University of Toronto and McMaster University) also have the "teaching-stream Professor" positions, but [advertisements for applying to those positions](https://www.academicwork.ca/jobs/teaching-stream-assistant-professor-in-psychology-mcmaster-university) suggest that a PhD is required.

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