Bulletin Archive

I was distressed by the article on Cynthia Maughan's lawsuit ("CAUT Defends Academics Named in Major Lawsuit," Bulletin, Sept. 2003). I do not know whether Ms. Maughan's claim of discrimination has validity or not - and, indeed, after reading the […]

Your news item, headlined "Koren Reprimanded by Ontario College of Physicians & Surgeons" (Bulletin, Sept. 2003) reports that University of Toronto dean of medicine David Naylor "directed Koren to arrange for the journal's editor to have the article deleted from […]

Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance Alberto Amaral, Glen A. Jones and Bert Karseth, eds. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002; 298 pp; hardcover $115 US. This book is reminiscent of a Three Stooges film, Nertsery Rhymes […]

A Nova Scotia labour relations tribunal has granted Acadia University Faculty Association's application to combine its full-time and part-time academic staff bargaining units. In issuing its decision, the tribunal said it was satisfied that there was "sufficient community of interest […]

Saint Mary's University Faculty Union ratified a collective agreement Sept. 12, which gives bargaining unit members substantial salary improvements. According to the union's calculations, total compensation will amount to an average increase of just more than 16 per cent over […]

Talks aimed at further liberalizing the global trading system collapsed in Cancun, Mexico last month after the world's richest nations refused to address the demands of developing countries worldwide on the thorny issue of agricultural subsidies. Canadian trade minister Pierre […]

"Evidence-based medicine" has become the mantra of the medical profession. When patients "present" to their physicians, the physicians are supposed to set aside their intuitions and prejudices and, instead, treat the patients' problems according to the best and most rigorous […]

Claude Corbo, rédacteur. Montréal : Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2002; 440 p.; 34,95 $ CAN (cartonné). Peu de rapports gouvernementaux ont provoqué autant de discussions et de controverses que le Rapport Parent. Ce dernier ne visait pas moins […]

Le mois dernier, l'ACPPU a publié le rapport de son Comité de la liberté universitaire et de la permanence de l'emploi sur le différend opposant le professeur David Noble et la Simon Fraser University (SFU). Les faits parlent d'eux-mêmes, me […]

Un tribunal des relations du travail de la Nouvelle-Écosse a fait droit à la demande que l'association des professeurs de l'Université Acadia avait déposée en vue de regrouper les unités de négociation des professeurs à temps plein et des professeurs […]

L'Université Mount Saint Vincent devient le premier établissement du genre à s'unir au Fonds pour l'avenir des femmes en vue d'offrir à ses professeurs et à son personnel un plan facultatif de retenue salariale. Créé en 1996, le Fonds est […]

Selon une enquête que Statistique Canada a rendu publique le mois dernier, les familles canadiennes occupant les échelons socio-économiques inférieurs sont beaucoup moins susceptibles de participer à des études postsecondaires. La première Enquête sur la participation aux études postsecondaires révèle […]