Bulletin Archive

La réforme du programme d’assurance-emploi annoncée le mois dernier par la ministre fédérale des Ressources humaines, Diane Finlay, est une très mauvaise nouvelle pour les membres du personnel académique contractuel qui reçoivent des prestations d’assurance-emploi entre deux contrats. Dorénavant, les […]

CAUT’s April Council has welcomed the Osgoode Hall Faculty Association as its newest member. Osgoode is CAUT’s 73rd local member association that together with three federated associations means CAUT represents more than 68,000 academic and general staff at 124 universities […]

Dans son budget de 2012, le gouvernement conservateur a dévoilé une série de compressions draconiennes frappant l’ensemble des ministères et organismes fédéraux. Les trois conseils subventionnaires — le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada, les […]

Mike Dawes was honoured April 28 at CAUT’s Council meeting in Ottawa. Mike Dawes, a University of Western Ontario professor emeritus of mathematics, has been awarded CAUT’s Donald C. Savage Award. The award is acknowledgement of outstanding achievements in working […]

Un nombre sans cesse croissant d’universités refusent de souscrire au modèle de licence que l’Association des universités et collèges du Canada (AUCC) a conclu avec Access Copyright et qui doit permettre la reproduction en formats papier et numérique sur les […]

A growing number of univer­sities have announced they will not sign the model copying agreement that the Association of Uni­versities and Colleges of Canada signed with Access Copyright to cover the reproduction of paper and digital content on university campuses. […]

In the 2012 federal budget, the Conser­vative government unveiled sweeping cuts across all departments and agencies. The three federal granting councils — the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Social […]

CAUT will be sending representatives to Education International’s Higher Education and Research Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this September. The three-day conference aims to address key developments and emerging challenges in the international education sector. Topics covered in sessions will […]

Contract academic staff who use employment insurance benefits to bridge gaps between contracts will be significantly affected by sweeping changes to the program announced last month by federal Human Resources Minister Diane Finley. The amendments mean claimants will be categorized […]

How Big Business Targets Chıldren Joel Bakan. Toronto, ON: Allen Lane Canada, 2011; 277 pp; ISBN: 978-0-67006-907-1, cloth $32 CAD. Reviewed by Judy Haiven In Childhood Under Siege, author Joel Bakan digs deeply into childhood in the U.S. and Canada […]

A Professor’s Life Michael Bliss. Toronto, ON: Dundurn, 2011; 428 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55488-953-2, cloth $40 CAD. Reviewed by Gregory S. Kealey In his well-written autobiography, Michael Bliss sets out to explain to readers “what it was like to be a […]

Le site web de l’ACPPU plongé dans le noir le 4 juin 2012. Des centaines d’organisations partout au pays ont plongé leurs sites web dans le noir dans le cadre de la campagne “Silence On Parle” en protestation contre les […]