Bulletin Archive

In the United States, we face a grave authoritarian threat. President Donald Trump is swiftly implementing the destructive, dehumanizing and undemocratic dictates from Project 2025, the authoritarian playbook for his second term.

In the 2021 political satire “Don’t Look Up,” astronomers attempt to warn authorities and the public of an approaching comet that would destroy human civilization. The allegory of ignoring the dire consequences of climate change is apt for our present situation as post-secondary educators.

Since the 2000-2001 academic year, average undergraduate tuition and compulsory fees have increased significantly faster than other goods and services.

The word “unprecedented” has been used a lot in recent weeks to describe events south of the border. It is an understatement by any reasonable measure.

In 2024, the estate of street photographer Vivian Maier, who died 15 years earlier, sued Toronto’s Stephen Bulger Gallery for allegedly producing and selling reproductions of her work without authorization.

The Nova Scotia government’s recent introduction of Bill 12 — one of several pieces of legislation that will remove environmental protections, limit freedom of information, and align our universities with government priorities — has left a distinct chill in the air that we all feel here on the East Coast.

Carys Craig is a legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is the director of the Osgoode Professional LLM in Intellectual Property Law Program, and a founding member and the director of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law & Technology Program.

In the feature article entitled, “EDI: Under attack or empowered?,” authors Momin Rahman and Naomi Nichols edify those who would confuse the pursuit of policies of Equity/Diversity/Inclusion with surrender to a radical agenda of either excising able-bodied, privileged, white heterosexuals from professorships and research funds or of promoting the mediocre over the meritorious to satisfy idiotic, bureaucratic-mandated quotas.

Professor Doug Lorimer passed away on March 19.

On March 23, a day before MPs were scheduled to return to Parliament, Prime Minister Mark Carney asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election for April 28.

The Trump administration’s threats against Canada have extended beyond imposing tariffs to threatening to cut funding for academic research conducted in Canada.

CAUT is rallying academic staff and allies to take part in its “stop the cuts” letter-writing campaign.