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Vancouver CAUT, the College Institute Educators' Association of B.C., the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association and the Capilano College Faculty Association opened two days of hearings on the future of post-secondary education in Vancouver, March 17, with a keynote address […]

Winnipeg Universities and colleges in Canada must do more to encourage participation from disadvantaged groups, according to participants in a set of public hearings organized by CAUT last month in Winnipeg. Rob Marriott, a Métis student and coordinator of the […]

Regina A lack of federal funding means that up to 2,000 First Nations people in Saskatchewan who want to attend a college or university are being denied access, according to the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations. Speaking at public hearings […]

Sudbury CAUT and the Laurentian University Faculty Association organized a day-long series of hearings in Sudbury Feb. 28 that focussed on the future of post-secondary education in the community. Faculty association president Jean-Charles Cachon noted that the large francophone population […]

More than 100 people crowded into the Driftwood Community Centre in Toronto on March 7 to attend a forum on public education organized by CAUT, the York University Faculty Association, and Toronto's Jane-Finch Community. The event, hosted by radio and […]

Many thanks to Paul Handford for a profound analysis of the flaws of the merit pay system (commentary, Bulletin, March 2002). He is quite right that this system is anti-collegial, demoralizing, wasteful on time, energy and resources, and makes almost […]

The Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo reached an agreement with the university over compensation on Feb. 4. Faculty members received a two-year salary settlement with wage increases of 2.6 per cent and salary floors and thresholds increases of […]

The academic community has a new, affordable, alternative to costly commercial publishers. ICAAP, the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publications, is a nonprofit electronic journal publishing house working out of Athabasca University. ICAAP has a large collection of […]

Canada hosted the third Education International conference on higher education and research in March. Thirty-seven national associations from 27 countries attended the three-day meeting sponsored by the Fédération québecoise des professeures et professurs d'université, the Centrale des syndicats du Québec, […]

Denise Doherty-Delorme & Erika Shaker, eds. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2002; 150 pp; paper $19.95 CA. For the third year in a row, Missing Pieces examines the state of higher education in each province and provides an analysis […]

Post-secondary educators in British Columbia are taking their fight against the provincial government's controversial Bill 28 to the B.C. Supreme Court. At a news conference on April 3, representatives of the College Institute Educators' Association of B.C. and the B.C. […]

Vandana Shiva. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2002; 158 pp; hardcover $40 us, paper $14 US. In Water Wars, Vandana Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society to analyze the historical erosion of communal water rights. Examining the […]