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Stanley G. Grizzle with John Cooper, Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1998; 128 pp; paper $16.95 CA., $19.95 US. This book of personal reminiscences by labour and anti-racism activist Stanley Grizzle is a fast, and fascinating, read. Grizzle worked for 20 years […]

CALL Conference in Toronto "Where Do We Go for Equity?" was the subject of a panel presentation by CAUT staff lawyer Shaheen Hirani at the annual meeting of The Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers held in Toronto from April 30 […]

Gender discrimination in the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is substantive and pervasive acknowledges a report released by MIT in March. Five years in the making and initiated by several female faculty members in the school, […]

Almost a year and a half after the end of the Nova Scotia government's legislated freeze on collective bargaining, the faculty and librarians at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design have ratified a new collective agreement. The term […]

New Zealand Four in ten university staff suffer frequent job stress according to a study commissioned by the Association of University Staff of New Zealand and authored by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Workload and Stress in New […]

CAUT's public awareness campaign - Our Universities, Our Future - was a central topic of discussion at CAUT's Council meeting in April. David Robinson, CAUT's new director of public policy and communications, provided Council with a preview of the plans […]

A few years ago, the federal government announced major cuts in transfer payments to the provinces for health, post-secondary education and social assistance. Despite recent increases, these transfers still fall short of their 1994-1995 level. At the same time, provincial […]

Dr. Nancy Olivieri was invited to speak at the CAUT Council banquet on April 23. When Dr. Olivieri, in the face of threats from drug manufacturer Apotex, decided to go public with her research findings neither the Hospital for Sick […]

Canadian university and college teachers have been warned about privatization so often they're beginning to think it's a put-up job. A UBC colleague reminded me the other day about the fairy-tale of the boy who cried wolf one time too […]

Al King with Kate Braid, Vancouver: Kingbird Publishing, 1998, 176 pp; paper $20 CA. Together with writer Kate Braid, Al King has produced a totally absorbing memoir of a union life in Canada. King retired from Steelworker staff in 1980, […]

R. Bruce Sheppard, Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997; 176 pp; paper $17.95 CA., $14.95 US. During the settlement era white homesteaders on both sides of the 49th parallel went to considerable lengths to exclude blacks from the region. Black settlers attempting […]

Pour la première fois, le Conseil des ministres de l'Éducation, Canada (CMEC) a convenu de principes et de grandes lignes pour l'enseignement postsecondaire au Canada. Leur rapport intitulé les Attentes du public relatives au secteur postsecondaire au Canada constitue un […]