Bulletin Archive

Ontario premier Doug Ford returned to Queen’s Park with a third straight majority government after a February 27 snap election. Less than half the number of eligible voters cast a ballot in the election.

Quebec’s unions have come out strongly against Bill 89, which they see as an attack on organized labour.

The applications for CAUT membership of the Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa, the Saskatchewan Polytechnic Faculty Association, the Association of McGill Professors of the Faculty of Arts, the Association of McGill Professors of Education, and the Association of McGill Academic Staff of the School of Continuing Studies will be presented to delegates at the CAUT Council meeting from May 1 to 3.

Members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) ratified a four-year agreement with the administration on March 13.

After months of stalled negotiations to sign new collective agreements, contract academic staff with CUPE 3902 at the University of Toronto, St. Michael’s College and Victoria College voted overwhelmingly for a strike mandate.

Four York University Senators and a member of its Academic Planning and Research Committee are seeking a judicial review of the university’s unilateral decision to suspend enrolments in 19 academic programs.

The Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers (ANSUT) is calling on its 1,300 individual members and allies across the country to email or phone the Premier of Nova Scotia, the Minister of Advanced Education, and their MLA to demand that they stop Bill 12.

Full issue of the March-April 2025 Bulletin

In November 2024, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research held a session questioning the value of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the research granting ecosystem in Canada.

In recent years, numerous incidents have arisen where faculty and institutional relations have sharply diverged.

For decades, provincial governments were the main source of funding for colleges and universities. In 2022-2023, tuition and other fees surpassed provincial grants for the first time.

Canada is at a crossroads. As a federal election creeps closer, voters across the country are preparing to decide the direction we take on several grand challenges facing our nation — such as climate change, public health crises, and innovation.