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1924–2012 Willard Finlay Allen, professeur émérite, est décédé le 25 juillet à l’âge de 88 ans. Il est né le 15 mai 1924. Il a agi comme président de l’ACPPU en 1969-1970, et il a connu à l’Université de l’Alberta […]

Noam Chomsky. Québec, QC: Les Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2011; 172 pages; ISBN: 978-2-76052-452-1, 20$ CAN. Par Greg Allain Qui ne connaît pas Noam Chomsky, sans doute l’intellectuel public américain le plus célèbre de sa génération? Professeur émérite de […]

Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act is now 10 years old. With it and since its passage, we have seen unprecedented legal and regulatory changes made by our government in the name of national security — changes that have horribly undermined our civil […]

Felipe Fernández-Armesto prefers fertile uncertainty to dead-end facts. I hate knowledge, because certainty impedes thought. Every time I get to think that I know something, I stop and disturb myself with a new, subversive problem about it. “Don’t answer the […]

CAUT’s blacked out website on June 4, 2012. Hundreds of websites across the country went dark in a ‘Black Out, Speak Out’ campaign against proposed changes to federal laws included in Bill C-38, the government's budget implementation bill. CAUT is […]

Canadians are increasingly concerned about access to affordable post-secondary education, according to a national poll commissioned by CAUT in April. The poll found that 49 per cent of Canadians believe it’s harder to get an education today, and 86 per […]

CAUT will be sending representatives to Education International’s Higher Education and Research Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this September. The three-day conference aims to address key developments and emerging challenges in the international education sector. Topics covered in sessions will […]

Contract academic staff who use employment insurance benefits to bridge gaps between contracts will be significantly affected by sweeping changes to the program announced last month by federal Human Resources Minister Diane Finley. The amendments mean claimants will be categorized […]

How Big Business Targets Chıldren Joel Bakan. Toronto, ON: Allen Lane Canada, 2011; 277 pp; ISBN: 978-0-67006-907-1, cloth $32 CAD. Reviewed by Judy Haiven In Childhood Under Siege, author Joel Bakan digs deeply into childhood in the U.S. and Canada […]

A Professor’s Life Michael Bliss. Toronto, ON: Dundurn, 2011; 428 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55488-953-2, cloth $40 CAD. Reviewed by Gregory S. Kealey In his well-written autobiography, Michael Bliss sets out to explain to readers “what it was like to be a […]

Le site web de l’ACPPU plongé dans le noir le 4 juin 2012. Des centaines d’organisations partout au pays ont plongé leurs sites web dans le noir dans le cadre de la campagne “Silence On Parle” en protestation contre les […]

Les Canadiens sont de plus en plus préoccupés par la question de l’accès à des études postsecondaires abordables, selon un sondage national commandé en avril dernier par l’ACPPU. Il ressort du sondage que 49 % des Canadiens sont d’avis qu’il […]