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Inaugural Bulletin message from the President* It is no small honour to be writing to you in this first issue of the CAUT Bulletin, which, while not very pretentious, is a beginning and a sign of things to come. The […]

Mike Mason McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020; 328 pp; ISBN: 978-0-2280-0150-8. By Robin Whitaker Carbon Blues is a book of ambitious scope. Proceeding via a combination of general timeline and thematic focus, Mason starts with the coal-fired industrial revolution in a […]

Though largely ignored by mainstream media, the disruption last September of a virtual panel discussion at San Francisco State University (SFSU) was definitely noticed by an alarmed academic community. Along with the Washington-based publication Inside Higher Ed, a handful of […]

Divestment from Fossil Fuels By Vanessa Sloan-Morgan, Jessica Dempsey and Neil Hanlon At one point during the virtual 2020 annual general meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), the CAG’s Secretary-Treasurer casually stated that the Association’s investments had been […]

By Tracy Smith-Carrier Post-secondary education has consistently been linked to the promise of a better life. Graduating from post-secondary study has been identified as the single most important factor affecting intergenerational mobility. Yet, several factors at play today show how […]

Elizabeth MacDougall-Shackleton is a biology professor at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and president of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA). The Association and its members are opposing the school’s proposed partnership with Navitas, a for-profit education […]

Momin Rahman is a sociology professor at Trent University and co-chair of the CAUT Equity Committee. His research interests include intersections between sexualities and ethnicities, with a particular focus on Muslim LGBT politics and identity. How is the Equity Committee […]

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By Brenda Austin-Smith Race may be discredited as a social construct, a figment of the white supremacist imaginary, but racism itself is still here. Persistent in its life-threatening and life-ending effects, racism infects systems here in Canada as well as […]

The Canadian Association of University Teachers is investigating allegations that the University of Toronto bowed to outside pressure in rescinding an offer of employment to an internationally recognized scholar. Following a competitive hiring process, Valentina Azarova was the unanimous recommendation […]