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Alternative Federal Budget A call by a broad coalition of labour and community groups for Ottawa to reinvest the growing surplus in the social programs and public services that bore the brunt of deficit reduction was echoed in an "alternative […]

The federal Finance Committee tabled its final report in early December, calling on the government to devote the looming fiscal surplus almost entirely to tax cuts and debt reduction rather than repairing the damage done to Canada's social programs, including […]

Universities for Sale: Resisting Corporate Control Over Canadian Higher Education Neil Tudiver, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., A CAUT Series Title, 1999; 248 pp; paper $19.95 CA. Author Neil Tudiver makes a tremendous contribution to our knowledge about the […]

Trinity Western University is embroiled in a Supreme Court battle with the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) over the college's denial of Trinity Western's application to have its teacher education program certified. The BCCT maintains Trinity's program philosophy is […]

The Canadian Federation of Students' Access 2000 campaign is gearing up. "Thousands of people have signed the federation's petition calling for the restoration of social programme funding, a reduction in tuition fees and a federally coordinated system of needs-based grants," […]

The increasing focus of colleges and universities on technical programs at the expense of the social sciences and humanities is not meeting the needs of the Canadian economy, a prominent economist says. In a report released last month by the […]

The recent decision of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal finding Professor Donald Dutton of UBC responsible for sexual harassment shows there are officials in British Columbia who do not understand the difference between a university and a factory for handing […]

Conscience & History: A Memoir Kenneth McNaught, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999; 202 pp; cloth $30 CA. The Canadian Forum recently published several pages of Ken McNaught's Conscience and History, mostly to do with the Harry Crowe case at […]

Plus de 75 représentants des universités et collèges, soit des professeurs, des bibliothécaires et des universitaires membres d'associations de professeurs à la grandeur du pays, ont envahi la colline du Parlement le mois dernier pour revendiquer l'augmentation des fonds publics […]

Earle Ferguson, bibliothécaire à la retraite de l'Université du Manitoba, est le lauréat du prix des bibliothécaires pour services émérites de 1999 de l'ACPPU. M. Ferguson est reconnu pour son apport à l'avancement du statut et des conditions de travail […]

Lors de l'assemblée du Conseil de novembre, l'ACPPU a accueilli parmi ses membres les professeurs de deux universités religieuses les plus respectées au Canada. Les délégués ont approuvé les demandes d'adhésion des deux associations de professeurs, l'une à l'Atlantic School […]

De nombreux professeurs et étudiants de l'Université Trent sont outrés par le projet de la rectrice Bonnie Patterson visant à restructurer l'université, notamment à fermer et à vendre le collège Peter Robinson et le collège Trail, deux des populaires collèges […]