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The Canadian Federation of Students awaits its trial date with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as a result of the federal government's decision to deny student loan borrowers the right to declare bankruptcy for a period of 10 years. […]

L'Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), l'organisme des Nations Unies responsable de la mise en application des normes internationales du travail, a statué que l'article 63.1 de la Loi sur les relations de travail de l'Ontario, en vertu duquel les employeurs […]

After a year of negotiating, 935 faculty members at the University of Saskatchewan have a new collective agreement. The three-year agreement, ratified in September, includes improvements to wages, benefits and "tenure" for librarians who, according to faculty association chair Robert […]

Selon une étude pilote réalisée par Statistique Canada, une multitude de nouveaux diplômés au niveau du doctorat quittent le pays. Un nombre important de titulaires de doctorat de l'Université de Toronto et de l'Université de Montréal s'en vont aux États-Unis […]

Negotiators avoid work stoppage with last-minute deal With the hours ticking down to a strike, negotiators for Carleton University and the union representing its academic staff reached a tentative settlement in their contract dispute. With the three-year deal, academic staff […]

Un étudiant de l'Université McGill conteste une nouvelle règle controversée suivant laquelle tous les étudiants doivent soumettre leurs dissertations à une société américaine à but lucratif qui s'occupe de détecter les cas de plagiat. Jesse Rosenfeld, un étudiant de deuxième […]

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Denis Coderre may be backing away from his strident call for the introduction of a national identity card equipped with biometric identifiers by 2005 for all Canadians. After aggressive promotion of the proposal over the past […]

Russel Ogden, a criminologist at Kwantlen University College in Surrey, B.C., has won $140,466 in damages from Exeter University after it broke a commitment to protect him while he conducted his PhD dissertation research on a secret global network conducting […]

Strike takes place at universities across Australia Oct. 16. Last month, more than 40,000 university staff across Australia staged a 24-hour strike that shut virtually all the country's 38 public universities. University staff were protesting against plans by the government […]

The White Ribbon Campaign, entering its 12th year, continues its work of encouraging men to become involved in ending men's violence against women. Today, the WRC is the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against […]

The CAUT Defence Fund board of trustees voted at their annual meeting Oct. 18 to provide financial assistance to member associations that incur costs associated with mediation or interest arbitration (including final offer selection) in the settlement of contract negotiations. […]

Professors and librarians at Carleton University gave their faculty union steering committee an unprecedented mandate to call a strike - now set for Oct. 20. In a heavy turnout, more than 94 per cent of academic staff voted to authorize […]