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While spring may have come to the rest of the Canada, educators and librarians continue to face wintery resistance on the copyright front. In December of 1996 the process of phase II was derailed by the Heritage Committee when 70 […]

Recently I returned from a foreign land, as foreign as the desert to someone who had experienced only lush green fields in the past. That foreign land was the 1996 CAUT Status of Women conference in Halifax, N.S. I was […]

Within weeks a federal election campaign will likely be called. Your CAUT Executive, along with our staff, are already thinking about questions we shall ask the parties and the candidates. We aim, as usual, to make post-secondary education a central […]

Le président de l’ACPPU, M. William Bruneau, s’est dit satisfait des mesures budgétaires du gouvernement fédéral en matière de recherche universitaire, d’aide financière aux étudiants et de dons de bienfaisance. M. Bruneau a en outre demandé au gouvernement de considérer […]

Depuis trois ans, une coalition de groupes syndicaux et d’action sociale fait contrepoids aux Libéraux en proposant un budget de rechange. Selon la coalition, elle ne peut être crédible que si elle offre un budget complet assorti d’hypothèses différentes de […]

Il y a cinq ans, par un matin d’été, l’association des professeurs de l’Université de Colombie-Britannique recevait la visite de l’agent syndical de l’une des sections locales du Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique du campus. D’une humeur massacrante, il […]

Les efforts concertés entre les universités canadiennes et Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada ont débouché sur des découvertes importantes en sciences agricoles. Le Dr Brian Morrissey supervise le réseau ministériel de 18 centres de recherches d’un bout à l’autre du Canada. […]

Dans le budget qu’il présentait, mardi, le ministre Paul Martin s’est encore une fois lourdement trompé dans ses prévisions de déficit. Nous avons bien sûr été habitués, au fil des ans, aux erreurs éhontées des budgets qui sous-estimaient systématiquement la […]

Federal Budget 1997 CAUT President William Bruneau has welcomed the initiatives in the federal budget dealing with university research, student aid and charitable giving. However, Dr. Bruneau also called on the government to consider these positive steps as part of […]

Feds aim to get more young people working In what has been called a major Liberal drive to get more young Canadians employed in the economy, Human Resources Development Minister Pierre Pettigrew unveiled on Feb. 12 his much-awaited new federal […]

Building an innovative learning society SSHRC has established five large-scale research networks in education and training. Involving universities and community partners in all provinces and several countries, each network will receive annual funding of $225,000 for the next five years. […]

Manitoba’s Bill 32 A concerted lobbying effort organized by the Manitoba Organization of Faculty Associations (MOFA) and supported by academics across the province has convinced the Manitoba government to make significant amendments to its recently adopted Council on Post-Secondary Education […]