Bulletin Archive

The strike by the 400-member Wilfrid Laurier University Staff Association ended Nov. 4 after ratification for a new collective agreement. The university's support staff had been on strike since Sept. 16, over contracting out, hours of work, job security, compensation […]

Members of the bargaining unit represented by Brandon University Faculty Association will vote this month to accept a tentative agreement reached on Oct. 30 with the university. The agreement follows a day and a half of talks with a government […]

It would seem the United States can now unilaterally refuse recognition of Canadian citizenship. Or at least that was what Mohamed Hassan Mohamed, a Sudanese-born Canadian citizen currently completing his PhD at the University of Alberta, was told on Sept. […]

Most Canadians want to see the federal government focus its priorities on renewed social spending, shows a new public opinion poll commissioned by CAUT. The poll, released last month, reports that six out of 10 Canadians say the major priority […]

Finance Minister John Manley says the federal government's surplus will shrink to just $1 billion next year, an amount critics dismiss as wildly low. In his first major fiscal statement delivered last month, Manley said Ottawa will "stay the course […]

Nuala P. Kenny. Ottawa: Canadian Healthcare Association Press, 2002; 237 pp; paper $49.95 CA. Health care is on the uttermost edge of a decision. Turn this way or that and we forever shape our destiny - for good or bad. […]

La violence faite aux femmes prend de multiples formes. Or, les hommes peuvent faire un premier pas en portant un ruban blanc en novembre pour reconnaître qu'ils contribuent à mettre un terme à cette violence. La Campagne du ruban blanc […]

Martin Duberman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2002; 528 pp; paper $22 US. Best known for his biography of Paul Robeson, Martin Duberman's work as a public intellectual has focused on the lives of "outsiders" and the need for the […]

Selon le ministre des Finances John Manley, les excédents budgétaires du gouvernement fédéral s'élèveront à un milliard de dollars seulement l'année prochaine, un chiffre que les observateurs considèrent comme extrêmement bas. Lors de sa première grande déclaration financière le mois […]

Stephen Clarkson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002; 480 pp; hardcover $75 CA., paper $35 CA. Between them, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien radically altered the structure and functions of the federal government, first by signing and implementing major trade […]

The growing threat to freedom of expression brought journalists and academics from across Canada to Ottawa Nov. 1-3 for a conference jointly sponsored by CAUT and Canada's largest union of media workers, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. […]

Ann Brooks & Alison Mackinnon, eds. Buckingham, U.K.: The Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, 2001; 208 pp; hardcover £65, paper £19.99. This book focuses on the effects of globalization's structural change on the gender politics […]