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Most Canadian university research libraries continue to fare badly according to the latest report of the Association of Research Libraries on "Holdings of University Research Libraries in U.S. and Canada." Fourteen Canadian institutions were included among the 114 surveyed. While […]

I was distressed by the article on Cynthia Maughan's lawsuit ("CAUT Defends Academics Named in Major Lawsuit," Bulletin, Sept. 2003). I do not know whether Ms. Maughan's claim of discrimination has validity or not - and, indeed, after reading the […]

Your news item, headlined "Koren Reprimanded by Ontario College of Physicians & Surgeons" (Bulletin, Sept. 2003) reports that University of Toronto dean of medicine David Naylor "directed Koren to arrange for the journal's editor to have the article deleted from […]

L'Université Mount Saint Vincent devient le premier établissement du genre à s'unir au Fonds pour l'avenir des femmes en vue d'offrir à ses professeurs et à son personnel un plan facultatif de retenue salariale. Créé en 1996, le Fonds est […]

Selon une enquête que Statistique Canada a rendu publique le mois dernier, les familles canadiennes occupant les échelons socio-économiques inférieurs sont beaucoup moins susceptibles de participer à des études postsecondaires. La première Enquête sur la participation aux études postsecondaires révèle […]

Last month, CAUT published its Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee's report on the case involving Dr. David Noble and Simon Fraser University. I believe the facts speak for themselves. It is not my intention to review the report. But, there […]

Les pourparlers visant à libéraliser davantage le commerce mondial ont échoué le mois dernier à Cancun, Mexique, après le refus des pays les plus riches de satisfaire aux exigences des pays en développement en ce qui concerne le problème épineux […]

Engineers are warning that rules issued by the U.S. Treasury Department this month could restrict the free exchange of scientific information. The Bush administration says the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, with more than 350,000 members worldwide, must stop […]

Families on the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder have significantly lower participation rates in post-secondary education, says a Statistics Canada survey released last month. The first Post-Secondary Education Participation Survey found that the state of a young person's family […]

Mount Saint Vincent University has become the first university to introduce the Women's Future Fund as an optional payroll deduction for faculty and staff. Founded in 1996, the WFF is a partnership of autonomous, national, equality-seeking, charitable women's organizations dedicated […]

Robert D. Steadward, Garry D. Wheeler & E. Jane Watkinson, eds. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press & Steadward Centre, 2003; 704 pp; hardcover $89.95 CA. Persons with disability have come a long way - from concerns with mere survival to […]

Growth & Governance of Canadian Universities: An Insider's View Howard C. Clark. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003; 240 pp; hardcover $85 ca., paper $24.95 CA., (paper edition available Jan. 2004). New Zealander Howard Clark arrived in Canada in […]