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Lorsque la Dre Nancy Olivieri a défié les menaces de poursuite de la puissante compagnie pharmaceutique Apotex et les manoeuvres d'intimidation de l'administration de l'hôpital qui l'employait, elle plaçait la sécurité de ses patients avant tout, avant même sa propre […]

L'ACPPU élargira la portée de ses travaux pour les professeurs à temps partiel, les chargés de cours et les professeurs auxiliaires par l'entremise du Groupe de travail sur le personnel universitaire contractuel qui a été reconstitué. La nouvelle présidente, Joan […]

Ayant comme objectif de consolider les liens avec des collègues d'autres pays, le Conseil de l'ACPPU a approuvé une recommandation du Comité de direction d'adhérer à l'Internationale de l'éducation, un organisme regroupant des syndicats, des associations d'enseignants, ainsi que des […]

Diane Huberman-Arnold, de l'Université d'Ottawa, a reçu le prix Sarah-Shorten 1998 lors de l'assemblée du Conseil de novembre. Mme Huberman-Arnold est membre de l'association des professeurs à temps partiel de l'Université d'Ottawa. Les efforts qu'elle a déployés et les réalisations […]

Peter Kent, Lakewood: Top Floor Publishing, 1998; 448 pp; paper $37.95 us. Setting up a web site doesn't have to be difficult. This book describes, in plain English, all the steps required to build a web site. While there are […]

Association wins voluntary recognition for all sessional faculty. The Faculty Association at the University of British Columbia has launched an organizing drive aimed at bringing all sessional lecturers into the association. The drive to sign up those sessionals not already […]

At the University of Ottawa, there are two faculty associations, one union for the full-time professors, and another for the part-time professors. From the perspective of a part-time professor, I will lay out the pros and cons of this union […]

Dr. Diane Huberman-Arnold from the University of Ottawa was presented with the 1998 Sarah Shorten Award at the November Council meeting. Dr. Huberman-Arnold is a member of the Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa and a teacher […]

Five days after Dr. Arnold Naimark released his report for the Hospital for Sick Children CAUT received the following statement signed by the Canadian Health Coalition, National Federation of Nurses Unions, Canadian Labour Congress, National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation, […]

On Jan. 6, Dr. Nancy Olivieri was removed from her administrative position at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. CAUT President Bill Graham described this as "tantamount to total dismissal." At press time the U of T faculty association was meeting […]

I read with interest Kathryn Campbell's commentary in the November Bulletin about the detrimental effect a change in accounting standards will bring to the universities. I suspect the case has been misstated or, at least, overstated. Professor Campbell is correct […]

Exploding the Tax-Cut Myths It is almost impossible these days to pick up a newspaper or listen to a newscast without reading or hearing the corporate mantra that Canada must lower its taxes to become more competitive. Yet for all […]