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Eight faculty members are asking the Canadian Human Rights Commission to conduct a special inquiry into allegations the Canada Research Chairs program discriminates against academics who are members of the protected groups set out in the Canadian Human Rights Act. […]

There were very few income tax changes proposed in the Dec. 10, 2001 federal budget. However, on Dec. 20, 2002, the Department of Finance released a sizable quantity of draft legislation effective for the 2002 taxation year. The following changes […]

An alliance of organizations representing booksellers, librarians, academics and journalists, led by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression welcomed the introduction in March of federal legislation that would remove a threat to the privacy of bookstore customers and library […]

CAUT has joined a large number of organizations questioning the federal government's proposed security legislation - Bill C-17, the Public Security Act. In an appearance before a special Parliamentary Committee established to examine Bill C-17, CAUT executive director James Turk […]

The United Nations agency charged with monitoring and upholding international labour standards has blasted the government of British Columbia for violating basic labour rights. In a decision released March 27, highly critical of the government, the International Labour Organization says […]

Donald Philip Verene. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2002; 112 pp; hardcover $18.95 US. In The Art of Humane Education, Donald Phillip Verene presents a new statement of the classical and humanist ideals that he believes should guide education […]

F. King Alexander & Kern Alexander, eds. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002; 200 pp; hardcover $70 CA., paper $27.95 CA. The expectations that society places on higher education are remarkably consistent between nations and the problems and issues […]

Mary Ann Wynkoop. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002; 232 pp; hardcover $49.95 US., paper $19.95 US. This grassroots view of student activism in the 1960s chronicles the years of protest at one Midwestern American university. Located in a […]

Values in Conflict: The University, the Marketplace and the Trials of Liberal Education Paul Axelrod. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002; 200 pp; hardcover $65 CA., paper $24.95 CA. As the end of a teaching term approaches, and grant […]

Due to the intense lobbying efforts of Principal William Leggett, Queen's University is often seen as leading the charge to establish a two-tiered education system in Canada. The latest chapter in this saga is an attempt to revive deregulation under […]

Un sondage que l'ACPPU a rendu public ce mois-ci laisse clairement entendre que la population canadienne s'inquiète que la hausse des droits de scolarité empêche des finissants qualifiés du secondaire de poursuivre des études collégiales ou universitaires. D'après les résultats […]

Les professeurs à temps partiel et les chargés de cours ont voté à l'unanimité l'adhésion à l'Algoma University College Faculty Association à titre d'unité de négociation distincte. Karl Jirgens, président de l'AUCFA, a déclaré que l'association se réjouissait de la […]