Bulletin Archive

Classes resumed at the University of Manitoba Oct. 26 after a four day strike by faculty members and professional librarians. The strike by more than 1,000 members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association over wages and benefits ended when […]

A legal opinion released last month by CAUT and a coalition of education groups and unions warns Canada's public education system is at risk during the current round of trade liberalization talks now taking place in Geneva under the authority […]

Canadians were horrified by the violence on Sept. 11 in the United States. In the climate of fear that followed the attacks, the Canadian government has struggled to develop a response to these atrocities. Part of this response has been […]

The proposed closure of Trent's two downtown colleges & the subsequent court case that upheld that decision has left professors little option but a high court appeal. The continuing dispute over the closure of Trent University's two downtown colleges is […]

The Association of Research Libraries' annual survey paints a depressingly familiar picture of Canadian university libraries. With the exception of a few bright spots (the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta and the University of Manitoba) the ranking of […]

Members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association approved a strike ballot by 68.2 per cent in a vote taken Oct. 1­2. Issues include salary structure (the employer wants discretionary market-related increases in excess of $1 million), faculty renewal and […]

David Healy files lawsuit over breach of contract. World renowned clinical psychiatrist Dr. David Healy is suing the University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health for breach of contract, defamation and denial of academic freedom. Healy […]

Jim Stanford's commentary "We Don't Need No Education" (Bulletin, September 2001) provides a breath of fresh air to all the cant about the purpose of higher education being for "higher productivity" and "global market competitiveness." But the irony of the […]

The president of the University of Toronto says that scholarships given to bright but wealthy students should be spent instead on deserving students who are truly in financial need. Robert Birgeneau is calling on other university presidents to support a […]

In recent years there have been an increased number of occurrences wherein academic freedom has been the subject of report and discussion. Veracity of positions of fact taken by academics has been ignored and dismissed, discounted and shunned or even […]

A Quebec tribunal is being asked to overturn a 1998 decision that dismissed a claim made by the McGill Students Society and student Paul Ruel that higher university fees for out-of-province students is discriminatory. Since 1997, Quebec undergraduate students pay […]

Ghosts in the Classroom: Stories of College Adjunct Faculty and the Price We All Pay Michael Dubson, ed. Boston: Camel's Back Books, 2001; 155 pp; paper $12.95 US, $18.95 CA. Ghosts in the Classroom is a collection of readings which […]