Bulletin Archive

In an unprecedented move, Laurentian University was granted court-ordered insolvency protection on February 1 under the federal Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). The news immediately sent shockwaves across the campus and throughout the wider community, although it followed years of […]

Higher education leaders, premiers push for more federal funding Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers invited more than 300 stakeholders to a national summit on post-secondary education and skills in Ottawa last month. The summit, called Competing for Tomorrow, was organized […]

By Jennifer Davis Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, university faculty across Canada have been looking for ways to keep doing high-quality research and adapt to online teaching. The uncertainty of what a new normal will resemble, and the […]

K.W. of Vancouver writes I am not comfortable returning to the classroom until everyone has had two COVID-19 vaccine doses. Can I legally refuse to go back to work on campus? David Robinson answers Workplace health and safety legislation in […]

Edited by Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, and Val Napoleon University of Toronto Press, 2020; 384 pp; ISBN: 978-1-4875-2382-4. By Len Findlay Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s blunt declaration, “Property is theft!” (La proprieté  c’est le vol!) was rightly directed at rentier and other […]

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Emily Eaton is an Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Regina. Her research is about the impacts of the fossil fuel industry on all aspects of society, including education and efforts to address climate change. […]

By Brenda Austin-Smith A few weeks ago, the administration of Laurentian University filed for insolvency protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. It was a breath-taking betrayal of students, faculty, and staff. Faculty knew that the Board of Governors was […]

CAUT is condemning the unjust conviction last month by a Polish Court of Canadian professor Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa) and Polish professor Barbara Engelking (Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw) for their scholarship critically examining the Holocaust in Poland. […]

A petition calling on university presidents to endorse the United Nations climate emergency letter has garnered over 3,500 signatures from post-secondary education staff and students across Canada. The UN letter urges institutions to declare a climate emergency and commit to: […]