Bulletin Archive

Program cuts, layoffs and campus closures are making headlines across the country.

“Unpaid work won’t fly.” That slogan captured the demand by flight attendants in the Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees to be paid for all hours worked.

Scholars at Risk’s Free to Think 2025 report documents 328 verified incidents of attacks on higher education in 49 countries and territories, from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025.

The annual Free to Think report prepared by Scholars at Risk and the Academic Freedom Monitoring Project was released in October.

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—comments that unquestionably fall within the scope of academic freedom and freedom of expression.

Indeed, the assault on freedom of expression in the United States—particularly on those who quietly or loudly condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza—has already severely impacted the work of many Canadian and international scholars.

Momin Rahman and Alison Hearn are guest editors of the 2025 special issue of the CAUT Journal, Shaping Equity as Labour Justice: successes, stumbles and setbacks.

Shaista Jaffer, a PhD candidate in Management, specializing in Finance, at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, has won the 2025-2026 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship.

On October 14, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Tony Wakeham and his Progressive Conservatives won a majority government, ending a decade of Liberal rule in the province.

More than 10,000 full-time college support staff across Ontario walked off the job on September 11, launching a province-wide strike after the College Employer Council exited contract talks without resolving key issues, including job security. 

Dalhousie University’s unprecedented lockout of nearly 1,000 faculty, librarians, counsellors and instructors ended on September 16 after the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) and the administration reached a tentative deal. The union secured several gains, including: Throughout the lockout, the administration […]

On October 3 and 4, librarians and archivists from across the country convened in Ottawa for CAUT’s Librarians’ and Archivists’ Conference.