Bulletin Archive

Fifty thousand demonstrators converged on Parliament Hill Oct. 15 to support demands to end violence against women and women's poverty in Canada for the World March of Women 2000 event in Ottawa. But Prime Minister Jean Chrétien sent them home […]

CAUT has hired Rosemary Morgan as the newest member of its legal staff. A graduate of Carleton University and the University of Ottawa law school, Rosemary has spent the last nine years as legal counsel with the Canadian Human Rights […]

The planned CAUT/FQPPU national lobby day has been pre-empted by the federal election campaign. In its place, CAUT will host a lobbying and communications workshop on Nov. 23. The workshop will provide participants with advice and training on how to […]

CAUT recently upgraded two administrative positions and hired John Hollingsworth and Linda Rumleski to fill them. A research analyst in CAUT's research department, John is a recent graduate of Carleton's M.A. program in political economy. Previously he had been a […]

A boisterous crowd of university students, chanting "Stockwell, Go Homo," jeered Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day on his visit to Brock University early in the federal election campaign. About two dozen protestors confronted Day and accused the Alliance leader of […]

Alexa McDonough promises to fix the health care system by increasing federal funding for medicare. Claiming that the federal Liberals have starved the health care system and opened the door to privatization, New Democratic Party Leader Alexa McDonough is promising […]

The Liberal Party's election platform promises the party will meet the challenge of the so-called new economy by turning Canada into a "smart country," but CAUT says the Liberals are still making dumb choices. Liberal Leader Jean Chrétien claimed his […]

Joe Clark promises to reduce the debt and cut taxes even more aggressively than the Liberals. Tory Leader Joe Clark is hoping he can save his party from being swept aside by the Canadian Alliance with a campaign platform that […]

Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin's October mini-budget gets a failing grade when it comes to preparing Canadians for the "new economy." "You simply can't build the new economy on a shaky foundation of tax cuts," said CAUT president Tom Booth. […]

CAUT called on the federal government to protect faculty intellectual property rights in upcoming World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) negotiations about the rights of performers in audiovisual productions. Universities, among many others, have come to view developments in communication technology […]

Tens of thousands of postcards urging the federal government to increase funding for post-secondary education have been flooding CAUT's office from all across the country. The postcards are part of an effort spearheaded by CAUT and its local associations to […]

Recent OECD figures reveal that Canada leads in cutting post-secondary education funding. Canada has the dubious distinction of leading the industrialized world in cutting funding for post-secondary education. Recently released figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show […]