Bulletin Archive

La grève à l'Université Laval s'est terminée lors de l'Assemblée générale du 23 novembre 2001, donc les membres du Syndicat des professeurs et professeures de l'Université Laval ont accepté l'entente de principe conclue entre le comité de négociation du SPUL […]

Delegates to CAUT's annual fall council meeting unanimously supported a resolution condemning the Liberal's anti-terrorist bill for the threats it poses to civil liberties and academic freedom. CAUT urged the federal government to withdraw Bill C-36. "Even with the amendments […]

On Nov. 23, CAUT Council delegates voted overwhelmingly to create the CAUT Academic Freedom Fund to aid CAUT and its local associations in vigorous defence of academic freedom. The fund's initial target is to raise $1 million. "Academic freedom in […]

Nancy Olivieri, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Toronto, was awarded the Milner Memorial Award at the November 2001 CAUT Council meeting. The award was established by CAUT in honour of James Milner, a former chairperson of […]

A top University of Toronto scientist has been fired by the Hospital for Sick Children over a dispute about the future of the public domain GDB Human Genome Database. Dr. Jamie Cuticchia, head of the hospital's bioinformatics supercomputer centre and […]

Twelve years have passed. Twelve times have Canadians mournfully remembered the date of Dec. 6, 1989 when at École Polytechnique, the University of Montreal's engineering school, 14 young women were massacred because they were women. The mad gunman, as a […]

The 772 members of Dalhousie Faculty Association have voted to strike. Professors are seeking wage increases of 12 per cent over three years, faculty renewal provisions and improvements to family leaves. "We want to settle at the table but there […]

Real Science: What it is, and What it Means John Ziman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000; 399 pp; hardcover $39.95 US. Every time I give a course as a biology teacher I come to a point where the class […]

CAUT recently published the report of the committee of inquiry into the case of Dr. Nancy Olivieri, the University of Toronto researcher who has been in an ongoing conflict with the pharmaceutical company Apotex. Although the report is lengthy, the […]

Statistics released this fall show that Canada's richest families are disproportionately benefiting from the federal government's education savings grant program. Households earning more than $80,000 a year are about three times more likely to have registered education savings plans than […]

As a women's studies professor I was delighted to see the "tribute" to my area of research and teaching in your recent Status of Women Supplement (Bulletin, October 2001). Women's Studies is still a relative newcomer to the academy and […]

The government of British Columbia is holding a province-wide consultation with students, administrators, and educators to consider the impact of the six-year-old freeze on tuition fees. "We are committed to hearing what students have to say about the impact of […]