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When David Healy accepted the positions as clinical director of the mood and anxiety disorders program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, he had no idea that academic freedom […]

Barbara M. Freeman. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001; 362 pp; paper $29.95 CA. This study is the first book-length discussion about the ways in which the print and broadcast news media have covered women's issues in Canada. It is […]

Nearly 70 per cent of Canadians think the federal Liberal government is not doing enough to support post-secondary education, a new poll commissioned by CAUT has found. Overall, 22 per cent of respondents felt that Ottawa was doing a poor […]

Management Fads in Higher Education: Where They Come From, What They Do, Why They Fail Robert Birnbaum. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000; 287 pp; hardcover $49.50 CA. The culture of higher education is not kind to managers. Presidents, deans, department chairs, […]

Public education could be threatened by the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, participants at an alternative Peoples' Summit forum heard last month in Quebec City in the run-up to the official Summit of the Americas. The Hemispheric Forum […]

On April 1, 2001, Dalton Camp wrote in the Toronto Star: "On the eve of the Summit of the Americas, at Quebec, there is also to be the alternative Peoples' Summit. The Summit of the Americas is, presumably, about trade, […]

More than 60 university professors and academic staff from across Canada called on Ottawa to boost funding for post-secondary education as part of a one-day national lobby day organized by CAUT and the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université […]

Where do you go to network, read about and dialogue on issues affecting women? On March 21, CTV's morning show, Canada AM reported: "it's official: more women than men use the Internet." Statistics Canada does not appear to agree. Its […]

Le 31 janvier dernier, l'association des professeurs de l'Université Brock a mis un terme à neuf mois de négociations avec l'administration en concluant sa deuxième convention collective. La convention collective a été ratifiée le 14 février par une majorité écrasante […]

Le Sénat de l'Université Concordia a pris une décision sans précédent en votant en faveur du report des examens finaux des étudiants qui veulent aller manifester au sommet des Amériques à Québec. Environ 9 000 personnes sont attendues au sommet […]

Dans ma chronique du numéro de septembre, je laisse entendre que les négociations de l'AGCS, appliquées à l'éducation, entraîneront le démantèlement de nos activités d'enseignement et de recherche. Fondée sur les principes du savoir, notre profession sera dégroupée et ses […]

Les 9 et 10 mars, Halifax a été le théâtre de la première d'une série d'audiences publiques pancanadiennes organisées par l'ACPPU et ses associations locales sur l'avenir des universités et collèges qui sont tous mis à dure épreuve au Canada. […]