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The Liberal Party's election platform promises the party will meet the challenge of the so-called new economy by turning Canada into a "smart country," but CAUT says the Liberals are still making dumb choices. Liberal Leader Jean Chrétien claimed his […]

Joe Clark promises to reduce the debt and cut taxes even more aggressively than the Liberals. Tory Leader Joe Clark is hoping he can save his party from being swept aside by the Canadian Alliance with a campaign platform that […]

Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin's October mini-budget gets a failing grade when it comes to preparing Canadians for the "new economy." "You simply can't build the new economy on a shaky foundation of tax cuts," said CAUT president Tom Booth. […]

CAUT called on the federal government to protect faculty intellectual property rights in upcoming World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) negotiations about the rights of performers in audiovisual productions. Universities, among many others, have come to view developments in communication technology […]

Tens of thousands of postcards urging the federal government to increase funding for post-secondary education have been flooding CAUT's office from all across the country. The postcards are part of an effort spearheaded by CAUT and its local associations to […]

Full-time faculty vote for all-inclusive association. Full-time faculty members at Nipissing University have voted overwhelmingly to offer membership in the faculty association to contract academic staff. The vote was initiated by the Nipissing University Faculty Association (NUFA) executive after they […]

Plus de 100 professeurs, bibliothécaires et autres universitaires de tout le Canada se rencontreront sur la colline du Parlement le 23 novembre pour sensibiliser les députés fédéraux au besoin d'un meilleur financement de l'enseignement postsecondaire et de la recherche de […]

Le ministre des Finances Paul Martin a annoncé que son gouvernement afficherait un excédent budgétaire inattendu de 12,3 milliards de dollars pour l'exercice financier 1999-2000. Toute cette abondance, cependant, servira à réduire la dette fédérale. Les personnes estimant qu'il vaudrait […]

CAUT plays positive role in scientist's reinstatement. Renowned seismologist Kin-Yip Chun, who was fired by the University of Toronto and escorted from the campus by police in 1994, was reinstated on Sept. 7 after a mediation which lasted for more […]

The faculty of science at Dalhousie University has recently cut a deal with a private, for-profit educational institution that smacks of little more than a back door for enrolment to the university -- and an expensive one for the university […]

The College Institute Educators' Association wins full access to the rights and benefits of collective agreements for many former temporary faculty. This fall, close to 300 CIEA faculty members who hold temporary positions will be in regular ongoing positions as […]

Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin announced his government recorded an unexpected $12.3 billion surplus for the 1999-2000 fiscal year, but that all of the bounty has been applied to reduce the federal debt. News of the surprise windfall immediately sparked […]