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At the end of November, Roy Romanow released the final report of the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. The major recommendations of the report call for the federal government to: Increase health spending by $15 […]

As a result of the dreadful events of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States began to tighten security at its borders and its transportation and strategic facilities. This is something I fully understand. In fact, since the explosion of Pan […]

Federal privacy commissioner George Radwanski is warning the right to privacy in Canada is under assault as never before. In his annual report to Parliament released last month, Radwanski said, “Unless the Government of Canada is quickly dissuaded from its […]

Augustana’s faculty association has announced that a majority of faculty members at Augustana University College have signed a petition to certify. According to Gerhard Lotz, president of the Augustana University College Faculty Association, the move was prompted by the board […]

Jeffrey Robinson. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001; 320 pp; hardcover $36.99 CA. There’s big money in Big Pharma. Accord-ing to most financial analysts, the pharmaceutical industry offers some of the most reliable investment opportunities in the stock market. Drug companies […]

Audrey MacNevin, Ellen O’Reilly, Elaine Leslau Silverman & Anne Tayler, eds. Ottawa: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2002; 224 pp; paper $13.95 CA. Leadership emerges in every setting where there are women, in quilting guilds and workplaces, […]

Gene Swimmer, ed. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2001; 232 pp; paper $24.95 CA. The 1990s in Canada will probably go down as the most stressful decade for public-sector industrial relations since the inception, 25 years earlier, of collective […]

Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education David F. Noble. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002; 116 pp; paper $19.95 CA. David Noble’s book describes the commodification and commercialization of higher education through online instruction. More precisely, it denounces the […]

Conflicts of interest are so widespread in biomedical research that nearly one in four scientists have financial ties to industry, according to the findings of a new study released last month. The study, conducted by researchers at Yale University School […]

Students across the country are reeling from hefty tuition hikes recently announced by many institutions for the next academic year. From Victoria to Halifax, tuition fees are set to record one of their biggest one-year increases on record when the […]

Although academics at the University of Toronto are disappointed with an arbitrator’s decision to award a 3 per cent across-the-board salary increase for the 2002–2003 academic year, George Luste, president of the University of Toronto Faculty Association, says it’s the […]

Le commissaire à la protection de la vie privée, George Radwanski, prévient que le droit à la protection de la vie privée au Canada est, plus que jamais, gravement menacé. Dans le rapport annuel qu’il a rendu public le mois […]