Bulletin Archive

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Denis Coderre may be backing away from his strident call for the introduction of a national identity card equipped with biometric identifiers by 2005 for all Canadians. After aggressive promotion of the proposal over the past […]

Russel Ogden, a criminologist at Kwantlen University College in Surrey, B.C., has won $140,466 in damages from Exeter University after it broke a commitment to protect him while he conducted his PhD dissertation research on a secret global network conducting […]

Strike takes place at universities across Australia Oct. 16. Last month, more than 40,000 university staff across Australia staged a 24-hour strike that shut virtually all the country's 38 public universities. University staff were protesting against plans by the government […]

The White Ribbon Campaign, entering its 12th year, continues its work of encouraging men to become involved in ending men's violence against women. Today, the WRC is the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against […]

The CAUT Defence Fund board of trustees voted at their annual meeting Oct. 18 to provide financial assistance to member associations that incur costs associated with mediation or interest arbitration (including final offer selection) in the settlement of contract negotiations. […]

The International Labour Organization, the UN body responsible for upholding international labour standards, has ruled that section 63.1 of Ontario's Labour Relations Act, which requires unionized employers to post and circulate information on trade union decertification in the workplace, violates […]

Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education Derek Bok. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003; 256 pp; hardcover $22.95 US. Commercialization of universities inevitably has consequences. Some are beneficial, for example, knowledge, services, or devices that would […]

L'ACPPU a créé un comité d'enquête chargé d'examiner la question de la liberté universitaire pour les administrateurs universitaires. Le comité est présidé par Bill Bruneau, professeur émérite à l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique et membre du Comité de la liberté universitaire […]

Voici revenu le temps de l'année où les médias d'information tentent d'évaluer les universités en leur attribuant un carnet de notes ou un classement. Nouveau venu parmi les " faiseurs de listes ", le Globe and Mail a publié en […]

Le mois dernier, plus de 40 000 universitaires dans toute l'Australie ont déclenché une grève de 24 heures qui a pratiquement stoppé les activités des 38 universités publiques du pays. Les professeurs d'université protestaient contre l'intention du gouvernement d'abolir leurs […]

A student at McGill University is challenging a controversial new rule requiring all students to submit essays to a U.S.-based for-profit company that checks papers for plagiarism. Jesse Rosenfeld, a second-year student in McGill's international development program, received a zero […]

La contestation fondée sur la Charte se poursuit en novembre La Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants attend de connaître la date à laquelle elle comparaîtra devant la Cour supérieure de justice de l'Ontario pour contester la décision du gouvernement […]