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Election 2025: The Liberal Party Manifesto

Today, I’m doing the Liberals, mainly because at the time of writing on Easter Sunday they have issued an actual full platform and costing document while the Conservatives have not. Spoiler: this is not your average Liberal platform. That a new leader might bring a change in Liberal priorities should have been clear enough to anyone who had the misfortune of slogging through Mark Carney’s book Values: Building a Better World for All, which I did a couple of weeks ago (the things I do

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April 22, 2025 No Comments

Election 2025: The Minor Party Manifestos

Election 2025: The Minor Party Manifestos Morning all. As usual during federal elections, I devote some time to each of the party platforms before election day. Today, I am going to focus on the five parties that have absolutely no hope of forming government. Liberal and Conservative platforms will follow. In increasing order of likely seat totals: The new-and-centrist-and-made-some-kind-of- sense-when-Justin-was-running-but-harder-to-understand-now Canadian Future Party platform has a paragraph on postsecondary education. They’d like you to know they are in favour of more research.

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April 21, 2025 No Comments

Indigenous Relations

To St. John’s, where last week Memorial University published a “Draft Policy for Consultation on Indigenous Verification.” It’s a doozy. Here are the key bits: Verification Pathways for Recognized Indigenous Collectives in Canada Under the policy, an applicant will follow one of the three verification pathways for membership/citizenship with a Recognized Indigenous Collective in Canada: Pathway A requires the applicant to confirm their connection to a Recognized Indigenous Collective through the submission of primary documentation; Pathway B requires the applicant to

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April 15, 2025 No Comments

Check-in on Administrative Bloat, 2025 Edition

Check-in on Administrative Bloat, 2025 Edition It’s been a little over five years since I took a serious dive into the question of “administrative bloat,” which apparently exists everywhere but in the statistics. Still, always good to check assumptions every once in a while, and I thought five years was long enough to make a new look at the data worthwhile. So here goes: Let’s start by reviewing what we can and cannot know about staffing at Canadian universities. StatsCan

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March 26, 2025 2 Comments

The Future of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Canadian Higher Education

Two months ago, there was some thought that Trump’s big anti-DEI agenda might “embolden” a future Poilievre government into doing something similar in Canada. Looking at recent polls, this seems a tad hasty: deprived of Trudeau as a foil and faced with a national emergency that can’t be solved with infantile three-word slogans, Dimestore Pat Buchanan’s odds of leading the CPC to a sweeping victory seem more remote by the day. But there is something deeper at work here, too: namely,

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March 18, 2025 No Comments

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