Bulletin Archive

Human rights have become an integral feature of modern law in Canada. Rights that were hardly imaginable at the dawn of our human rights era in 1982 — a fulsome recognition of sexual orientation; disability understood as a social injustice […]

E.H. of Winnipeg writes I have asked for workplace accommodation for recurring symptoms of my mental illness. The employer has indicated accommodation will require that I disclose both my specific diagnosis and medical records. I am very concerned that this […]

Joanna Williams. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; 217 pp; ISBN: 978-1-13751-478-3. As its title attests, this volume is deliberately confrontational. Joanna Williams names and deplores conformity as a damaging feature of the contemporary university. This conformity, she argues, leads to professorial self-censorship […]

Adela Talbot / Western News Brescia Faculty Association just finished a successful round of contract negotiations. As the president of the association what were the objectives of your bargaining team? Our mandate was to close the wage gap between Brescia […]

The faculty association at York University decided to take matters into its own hands to advance equity by making it a priority at the bargaining table. In doing so, the union succeeded in securing measures that could visibly change the […]

By James Compton Even among well-heeled Canadian CEOs, some CEOs are more equal than others. Only a few days after ringing in the New Year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a report documenting the widening earnings-gap between Canada’s […]

Human rights have become an integral feature of modern law in Canada. Rights that were hardly imaginable at the dawn of our human rights era in 1982 — a fulsome recognition of sexual orientation; disability understood as a social injustice […]

E.H. of Winnipeg writes I have asked for workplace accommodation for recurring symptoms of my mental illness. The employer has indicated accommodation will require that I disclose both my specific diagnosis and medical records. I am very concerned that this […]

Joanna Williams. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016; 217 pp; ISBN: 978-1-13751-478-3. By Len Findlay As its title attests, this volume is deliberately confrontational. Joanna Williams names and deplores conformity as a damaging feature of the contemporary university. This conformity, she argues, leads […]

Brescia Faculty Association just finished a successful round of contract negotiations. As the president of the association what were the objectives of your bargaining team? Our mandate was to close the wage gap between Brescia faculty and those of our […]

[Concordia University] 2016 was a traumatic year for Homa Hoodfar. Arrested and detained in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for 112 days, the retired anthropology professor from Concordia University thought the nightmare would never end. Thanks to diplomatic help from Canada, […]