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Thirteen years ago Nuri Jazairi, a professor of economics at York University, was denied a promotion to full professor. Professor Jazairi believed the denial stemmed from his open support for the people of Palestine. After exhausting internal appeals at York, […]

La Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants lance une semaine d'action pancanadienne, du 13 au 16 octobre, pour protester contre les frais de scolarité qui montent en flèche. «C'est la courte honte de notre pays que ses étudiants doivent commencer […]

Les principales associations d'enseignants et d'étudiants se sont rencontrées le mois dernier à Ottawa pour créer une coalition pancanadienne visant à promouvoir l'enseignement public. «Le Public Education Network/Réseau pour l'éducation publique (PEN/REP) nous permettra de relever plus efficacement les défis […]

Le comité de sélection de la Bourse commémorative J. H. Stewart Reid est heureux d'annoncer que la bourse de 1998-1999 a été décernée à Mme Van Nguyen-Marshall. Mme Nguyen-Marshall est étudiante au doctorat à l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique. Elle se […]

The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) will launch its Canada-wide "Days of Action" Oct. 13 to 16 to protest skyrocketing tuition fees. "It is a national disgrace that students are starting another fall term with among the highest fees and […]

Russel Ogden, a successful M.A. candidate at Simon Fraser University, braved a contempt of court charge in order to protect the confidentiality of his research sources and uphold the broader principles of academic freedom. Although the contempt charges against Mr. […]

Members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike vote if there is an impasse in negotiations 14 days after the resumption of collective bargaining. This vote -- taken at a special meeting […]

Your September 1998 issue raises a concern which is all the more serious as the media are reporting Health Canada to be embroiled in similar problems. Researchers are the only people qualified to test medical procedures and drugs, and their […]

The selection committee for the J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship is pleased to announce that Van Nguyen-Marshall has been awarded the Fellowship for 1998-99. Ms. Nguyen-Marshall is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, where she obtained her […]

Earlier this summer, after a month of intensive bargaining, the University of Northern British Columbia Faculty Association reached an accord with the board of governors on their second collective agreement. Members of the faculty association voted 87 per cent in […]

The Ontario Labour Relations Board handed down its decision on May 26 ruling in favour of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association that full-time and part-time faculty should be in a single bargaining unit. As reported in the April […]

The Memorandum of Agreement ratified by the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo and the board of governors this past May and June contained a proposal to introduce a Rand Formula at the University of Waterloo. At present approximately […]