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The Canada First Research Excellence Fund’s announcement of grant recipients earlier this month was met with celebrations by many Canadian researchers and scholars. Nearly $1 billion was allocated to 13 large-scale projects at Canadian universities, including a seven-year neuroscience project […]

On June 6, 2016, news broke that a Canadian scholar had been arrested and imprisoned in Iran. Dr. Homa Hoodfar’s colleagues at the Concordia University Faculty Association immediately took action to campaign for her release. The Bulletin talked with engineering […]

A self-proclaimed “pro-science” government, a federal review of support for fundamental science, a major revamp of a controversial reform of health research grants, a new. $900 million federal fund for “big science” — with those big changes in the political […]

‘Tis the season of consultations. Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government wants to know what people think about a great many things. A recent count, taken from the government’s Consulting with Canadians website, puts the number of official consultations in progress at […]

Steven Salaita, Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2016; 254 pp; ISBN: 978-1-60846-577-4. This book’s biggest surprise comes near its end, when Salaita confirms Israeli right-winger Naftali Bennett’s claim that Palestinians keep missile launchers at home. “[T]he missile launcher room is the life­blood of […]

The Canada First Research Excellence Fund’s announcement of grant recipients earlier this month was met with celebrations by many Canadian researchers and scholars. Nearly $1 billion was allocated to 13 large-scale projects at Canadian universities, including a seven-year neuroscience project […]

On June 6, 2016, news broke that a Canadian scholar had been arrested and imprisoned in Iran. Dr. Homa Hoodfar’s colleagues at the Concordia University Faculty Association immediately took action to campaign for her release. The Bulletin talked with engineering […]

Faculty groups in the United States are warning that the increasing reliance upon metrics to assess their “productivity” is threatening the traditional system of peer review in hiring, tenure and promotion decisions. Full-time faculty members at Rutgers University have pro­tested […]

 S. Melanson  //  A. Harrington  //  P. Barnacle Shelley Melanson Membership Engagement Officer Shelley has extensive experience in organizing in the post-secondary education sector. She served as the Ontario chairperson and national deputy chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students. […]

Ministry of Innovation / Science & Economic Development / Government of Canada As an academic turned politician, you’ve been a strong advocate of evidence-based decision-making in government. How do you think we can incorporate more scientific thinking into the discussion, […]

J.T. of Ottawa writes: I teach, on a contract basis, one of six sections of an introductory commerce course. A tenure-track faculty member recently appointed to “coordinate” the sections is now micromanaging my reading list and evaluation methods. What can […]

David Christopher PhD candidate David Christopher from the department of art history and visual studies at the University of Victoria has been awarded CAUT’s 2016–2017 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship. Christopher’s research is centred on the rising significance of Canadian […]