Bulletin Archive

The word “unprecedented” has been used a lot in recent weeks to describe events south of the border. It is an understatement by any reasonable measure.

In 2024, the estate of street photographer Vivian Maier, who died 15 years earlier, sued Toronto’s Stephen Bulger Gallery for allegedly producing and selling reproductions of her work without authorization.

The Nova Scotia government’s recent introduction of Bill 12 — one of several pieces of legislation that will remove environmental protections, limit freedom of information, and align our universities with government priorities — has left a distinct chill in the air that we all feel here on the East Coast.

Carys Craig is a legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is the director of the Osgoode Professional LLM in Intellectual Property Law Program, and a founding member and the director of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law & Technology Program.

In the feature article entitled, “EDI: Under attack or empowered?,” authors Momin Rahman and Naomi Nichols edify those who would confuse the pursuit of policies of Equity/Diversity/Inclusion with surrender to a radical agenda of either excising able-bodied, privileged, white heterosexuals from professorships and research funds or of promoting the mediocre over the meritorious to satisfy idiotic, bureaucratic-mandated quotas.

Professor Doug Lorimer passed away on March 19.

On March 23, a day before MPs were scheduled to return to Parliament, Prime Minister Mark Carney asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election for April 28.

The Trump administration’s threats against Canada have extended beyond imposing tariffs to threatening to cut funding for academic research conducted in Canada.

CAUT is rallying academic staff and allies to take part in its “stop the cuts” letter-writing campaign.

Ontario premier Doug Ford returned to Queen’s Park with a third straight majority government after a February 27 snap election. Less than half the number of eligible voters cast a ballot in the election.

Quebec’s unions have come out strongly against Bill 89, which they see as an attack on organized labour.

The applications for CAUT membership of the Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa, the Saskatchewan Polytechnic Faculty Association, the Association of McGill Professors of the Faculty of Arts, the Association of McGill Professors of Education, and the Association of McGill Academic Staff of the School of Continuing Studies will be presented to delegates at the CAUT Council meeting from May 1 to 3.