Bulletin Archive

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, a defining event in the history of Canada’s modern union movement. Iconic images including police mounted on horseback shooting into defiant crowds, and an upturned and flaming streetcar are […]

Tim McSorley is national coordinator for the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, a national coalition of Canadian civil society organizations — including CAUT — established following the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States and the adoption of Canada’s […]

By James Compton “Taxes are theft.” I recently bumped into a man proudly displaying this slogan on a button pinned to his sports jacket. I was passing him in the Ottawa airport as he exchanged loud guffaws with his colleagues. […]

First described in the 1800s, but not officially named until 1993, the Matilda Effect continues to plague women pursuing science careers. It seems a consummate irony that American historian Margaret Rossiter had never heard of suffragist Matilda Gage before 1993. […]

Wayne Au. Haymarket Books, 018; 305 pp; ISBN: 978-1-60846-905-5. By Howard A. Doughty Wayne Au is still a young man, but he is already a man of accomplishment. Self-consciously working-class, bi-racial and multicultural (he loves hip-hop music and movies), he is an […]

By Marc Spooner Every so often, one or another government branch or agency claims there is an educational crisis in Canadian post-secondary institutions (but never addresses perennial underfunding). This latest exercise in bureaucratic regime-building comes from Ontario and follows the […]

Mona Chevalier Collective Bargaining Officer Mona joined CAUT in November 2018. She holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and a master’s degree in education, with a specialization in counselling, from the University of Ottawa. Mona brings a wealth of bargaining […]

Donna Strickland is a physics professor at the University of Waterloo where her ultrafast laser group develops high-intensity laser systems for non-linear optics investigations. Last December, she and former colleague Gérard Mourou shared in the award of the Nobel Prize […]

Source: Statistics Canada FT-UCASS