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Une entente a finalement été trouvée entre les parties dans l’affaire concernant l’ancien professeur de l’Université Acadia, Colin Wightman. Les dispositions du règlement conclu le mois dernier demeurent toutefois confidentielles. L’université et l’ACPPU ont convenu, plus tôt cette année, de […]

Knowledge, Traditions & Values More than 80 Aboriginal scholars from across Canada parti­­ci­pated in CAUT’s Transforming the Academy conference in Sask­atoon last month. “The focus on transformation reflects the urgency in Aboriginal educators’ demands that post-secondary institutions recognize cultural differences […]

University Education and Enlightenment Ian Angus. Winnipeg, MB: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2009; 176 pp; ISBN: 978-1-89403-740-2, paper $14.95 ca. What are universities good for? This question has generated intense debate and is often seen as a symptom of crises in […]

The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival Jock McCulloch & Geoffrey Tweedale. New York, NY: Oxford University Press Inc., 2008; 336 pp; ISBN: 978-0-19953-485-2, hardcover $60 ca. In the early 20th century, asbestos had a reputation as a […]

How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy Donald Gutstein. Toronto, ON: Key Porter Books, 2009; 320 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55470-191-9, paper $22.95 ca. North Americans have expressed themselves loud and clear on a wide range of issues — like the need for expanded […]

The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance — Colin Bennett — Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008; 259 pp; ISBN: 978-0-26202-638-3, cloth $28 US. Watching Big Brother Watching By MURRAY MOLLARD When did you connect privacy and freedom? When […]

Unions representing academic staff at Nipissing University, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto have averted strikes and ratified new collective agreements. Nipissing University Full-time members of the Nipissing University Faculty Association voted by an overwhelming majority […]

An article in the October 2009 issue of the CAUT Bulletin refers to the “obscene” compensation deal for the University of Calgary’s outgoing president who will retire in January 2010. While such compensation strikes many as surprising, excessive, or even […]

CAUT president Penni Stewart speaks of CAUT’s “mandate and role in defending colleagues whose (academic) freedom has been infringed” (Bulletin, October 2009) and insists, rightly, that “we must pay serious attention to each incident, because each potentially esta­blishes precedents that […]

It is important to get the facts straight. Gary Goodyear’s chief of staff threatened a cutoff in new funding for SSHRC because of a peer-reviewed decision to fund a conference on Israel and Palestine sponsored by Osgoode Hall Law School, […]

Dorit Naaman rightfully condemns the attempt by Jewish organizations to stifle debate in Canada on the future of Israel and Palestine, a debate that is lively in Israel, perhaps more so than here (Bul­le­tin, October 2009). But her own comment […]

CAUT analysis of knowledge infrastructure funding reveals most money not going for research facilities. Knowledge Infrastructure Grants: Total pledged to date $1.7 billion; Non-research projects 53.6%. [Photo: 2009 JupiterImages Corporation] Less than half of what the federal government says it’s […]