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Le premier lauréat du Prix de l'ACPPU pour services émérites, Bernard Robaire, prend la parole devant l'assemblée du Conseil de l'ACPPU L'ACPPU a rendu hommage au professeur Bernard Robaire de l’Université McGill en lui remettant le Prix pour services émérites […]

Contrary to Martin Rudner’s assertion, as a former solicitor general, I feel very strongly that public trust in security agencies is fundamental to national security and that transparency, judicial safeguards and accountability can instill that trust. Professor Rudner asserts intelligence […]

Student activists have won an important struggle at McGill University, convincing the board of governors to divest stocks of any companies doing business in Burma. McGill is the first university in Canada to take this step, following the lead of […]

CAUT Council agreed last month to postpone consideration of censure of University College of the North until its November 2006 meeting to allow the parties to respond to CAUT’s concerns. “We have taken this decision to postpone our considerations as […]

First Nations University of Canada has been given a deadline of mid-June to demonstrate that it is acting on recommendations to change its governance structure. The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada told FNUC that it has until June […]

Council delegate Robert Leclerc, & observer Geneviève Robichaud (inset, from top) Bob Rupert, Sarah Schmidt & Mike Gasher in a simulated press conference held April 27 in Ottawa. CAUT Council delegates improved their media skills in workshops April 27, working […]

American Association of University Professors president Jane Buck and president-elect Cary Nelson were arrested April 27 in New York City. Buck and Nelson were detained by police for their participation in an act of civil disobedience in support for striking […]

William Bruneau William Bruneau was elected at the spring CAUT Council meeting to succeed Gordon Shrimpton as Speaker of Council starting in November 2006. Shrimpton stepped down after serving for eight years. In one of the several tributes to the […]

Canadians don’t widely share most of the priorities of the Conservative government of Stephen Harper, according the latest public opinion survey commissioned by CAUT. The poll, carried out by Decima research just prior to the release of this month’s federal […]

Consideration of censuring Dalhousie University was postponed after CAUT Council learned of written commitments from Dalhousie University president Tom Traves to address concerns raised by CAUT regarding Gabrielle Horne and Michael Goodyear, both of whom are professors at Dalhousie. After […]

Cheryl Reed-Elder (gauche), présidente de l’Association du personnel académique du Collège universitaire Algoma, et Cindy Oliver, présidente de la Federation of Post-Secondary Educators de la C.-B., ont pris part à une conférence de presse simulée. Dans le cadre de la […]

Le conseil de l’ACPPU a décidé de surseoir à ses délibérations concernant l’adoption possible d’une motion de censure contre l’Université Dalhousie après avoir appris que le recteur de cet établissement, Tom Traves, s’était engagé par écrit à prendre en considération […]