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After years of funding cuts, Alberta plans to invest more than $3 billion in post-secondary education in an effort to make its residents the most highly educated in the country. The Conservative government of Ralph Klein made the announcement in […]

Tax Policy Announcements There were some interesting tax changes proposed by the federal government in its Feb. 23, 2005 budget. Among the more significant changes were the following: Increasing RRSP contribution limits to $19,000 in 2007 and to $22,000 by […]

The Harry Crowe Foundation will launch itself publicly with a North American conference on "Academic Freedom Post 9/11" to be held in Toronto, October 28-30, 2005. "We are honoured that so many top scholars have agreed to participate in our […]

À la demande de l'Association des professeurs de l'Université York, l'ACPPU a nommé un comité spécial d'enquête chargé d'examiner de présumées menaces à la liberté d'expression et à la liberté académique ainsi que de présumées pratiques de gouvernance illégitimes au […]

We live in a time of great change in the Canadian post-secondary education sector. Our classrooms are bulging with students, government financing is increasingly being tied to research performance, commercialization is on the rise, a remarkable percentage of tenured and […]

L'ACPPU a lancé, à la fin de 2004, une campagne en faveur de la liberté de publier fondée sur la nécessité de protéger la liberté académique de publier et de divulguer des renseignements sur les risques. Cette protection ne saurait […]

Former Ontario NDP premier Bob Rae, who was appointed by the Ontario government last year to review the province's post-secondary education system, has concluded the system is underfunded. His report, titled Ontario: A Leader in Learning, was released in February. […]

CAUT has called on McMaster University to reverse one of its policies that threatens academic freedom. The policy, adopted by the McMaster senate in 2003, prohibits academic staff from referring to their affiliation to McMaster when expressing an opinion to […]

In 1984, the Canadian Labour Congress declared a National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job. April 28 commemorated the enactment of Canada's first comprehensive Workers' Compensation Act in Ontario in 1914. Observances of the Day […]

At the request of the York University Faculty Association, CAUT has appointed an ad hoc investigatory committee to look into allegations of threats to freedom of expression and to academic freedom at York as well as allegations of inappropriate governance […]

At the end of 2004 CAUT launched its Freedom to Publish campaign based on the need to protect the freedom of academics to publish and disclose risks. This protection can only be achieved by negotiating appropriate language in collective agreements […]

A new book called Institutional Racism in Higher Education (editors Ian Law, Deborah Phillips and Laura Turney), Trentham Press, (was) published (last) summer. It is produced by the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, at the University of Leeds, and […]