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Dr. Larry Reynolds has been restored as professor of medicine at the University of Manito­ba and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, with joint ap­pointments in family medicine and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences. In response, CAUT dropped its plans to […]

Canada’s highest court has denied the University of British Columbia Faculty Association’s application, supported by CAUT, for leave to appeal a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that upheld an arbitrator’s ruling that he did not have jurisdiction over a grievance […]

Government hands pharmaceutical industry more control in decision-making. In a move that a health care advocacy group says is like “putting biker gangs in charge of street crime,” British Columbia is handing pharmaceutical companies more control over drug coverage decisions […]

Carleton University’s Board of Governors will no longer withhold membership fees from student unions on campus, according to an agreement reached last month. In a joint statement issued Nov. 29, the university, the Carleton University Students’ Association, and the Graduate […]

The Mount Allison Faculty Association and university administration are to begin hearings before a conciliation board, the province of New Brunswick has announced. The Nov. 4 decision by Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Martine Coulombe came after the two […]

Lakehead University’s administration came under attack last year over imposed furlough days. [Photo: Scott Pound/Bulletin Archives] An arbitrator has found that Lakehead University violated its collective agreement by shutting down the university for four days in December 2009 and reducing […]

The Prince Edward Island government is threatening to in­troduce legislative changes that would allow for new degree-granting ar­rangements on the Island, unless the University of Prince Edward Island agrees to partner with a millionaire developer for a program in real […]

The dismissal of Balsillie school director Ramesh Thakur was the consequence of the universities’ serious lapse of judgment & loss of commitment to institutional autonomy & academic integrity. [Photo: Mathew McCarthy/Waterloo Region Record] An investigation has found that the Univer­sity […]

[Photo: Alonso Nichols / Tufts University] Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the interdependence of teaching & research ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am in Baltimore, Maryland, giving lectures at a peculiar university. Johns Hopkins, who founded it, was an oddity: an abolitionist raised on a […]

On Sept. 19 about 100 Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg community members and other supporters, including Shawn Atleo, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, kicked off an “education awareness” walk from their homes near Maniwaki, Que, to Ottawa. The […]

In response to the article “NSERC Discovery Grants Spiral Downward” (Bulletin, October 2010), I would like to address some of the concerns raised about success rates and correct a few factual errors. As mentioned in the article, NSERC undertook a […]

The reality is the overall success rate of the Discovery Grants Program has dropped at an alarming rate. The charge to the inter­national review committee was precisely to assess whether the relatively high success rate in DGP competitions (70 per […]