Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| In the 2021 Alberta budget, the University of Alberta's grant has been slashed by 11 per cent, or $60.1 million. Also: another tiki-torch march; former MLA Janice Sarich remembered. |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| The university leadership likely concluded that lobbyist Elan MacDonald has the connections necessary to work with Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party government. |
Podcast
Scott Neigh
| Renae Watchman, Michael Truscello and Leah Hamilton talk about the work of the Mount Royal Anti-Racism Coalition. |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Promises by highly ideological governments to enact ambitious change in institutions they have targeted as hotbeds of opposition should be viewed with some distrust. |
Blog
Jeff Shantz
| Growing movements against police brutality raise concerns over the self-serving relationships between criminal justice agencies and post-secondary institutions. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| In an incomprehensible attack on the foundations of an advanced society, the Kenney government has decided to slash funding to 21 post-secondary Alberta institutions. |
Podcast
Victoria Fenner
| Hildah Otiena of the Ontario CFS talks about the Ontario government plans to let students opt out of fees for student activities, health plans and bus passes. |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Forcing Athabasca University administrators to reach a contract their faculty can live with would serve the public interest and government's political interest. What's not to like about that? |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Bill 19, the Act to Improve the Affordability and Accessibility of Post-Secondary Education, is no bad thing, taking reasonable steps to protect students within provincial jurisdiction. |
News
Michael Jones
| The Ontario college strike has been controlled by the employer in a paternalistic way, which is exactly how they’d like to run the entire college system. |
News
Meagan Gillmore
| More than 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors and librarians took to the picket lines after OPSEU and the College Employer Council failed to reach agreement |
Blog
Alana Cattapan
| Job-seeking academics have come to think that the elusive tenure-track position is worth any amount of sacrifice. And institutions are exploiting this desire to the hilt. |