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By Ricardo Acuña On October 24, 2019 Alberta’s new UCP government headed by Jason Kenney delivered its first provincial budget. The budget, as expected, leaves virtually no part of Alberta’s public spending intact as it promises to deliver overall cuts […]

Tom Slater Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016; 134 pp; ISBN: 978-1-137-58784-8 by Michael Dabrowski No matter where you sit on the free speech debate, this short collection of chapters from a broad-spectrum of writers including the voices of academics, lawyers, campaigners, […]

Henry Reichman. John Hopkins University Press, 2019; 376 pp; ISBN: 978-1-42142-858-1 by Len Findlay Just as we have much to learn in Canada from our southern neighbour’s historical and current populist travails, we also have lots to learn from the […]

David Ohana Routledge, 2019; 248 pp. ISBN: 978-0-815386-312-5. By Jane O’Grady In a celebrated essay of 1784, Immanuel Kant responded to the question “What is Enlightenment?” by saying that it represented “man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity”, the sort of […]

By Marc Spooner The proposed metrics to be used to determine the performance-based funding universities will be allotted under the newly restructured Strategic Mandate Agreement proposed by the Ontario government leave a lot to be desired. Slated to determine up […]

Martin Daly at McMASTER University writes: I notice two ironies in your February Bulletin cover story about the difficulties that women in science continue to face and the systemic obscuring and appropriation of their accomplishments. The first is that the […]

René Wells at the University of Calgary writes: I just read the president’s message in the February Bulletin. I suggest the president is plain wrong in his understanding and interpretation of “taxes are theft.” This has nothing to do with […]