Everything you need to know about last Thursday’s horror show in a handy Q&A session. Q: What’s the damage this time? A: I swear to God I do not understand how the province of Alberta explains anything financial. The University of Alberta claimed the system-wide cut was $126 million, the Globe and Mail said it was $135 million. I count the cut to operating institutions as being $175 million if you use the 20-21 budget as a base, and $142 million
There is an election in Newfoundland on Saturday. It’s not because the government’s term was up or it lost a confidence vote, or indeed that anyone at all actually wanted a vote. No, it’s because Newfoundland, a province where party leadership literally changes with the season, has a rule whereby a new Premier, if brought to power by becoming leader of a party which already controls the legislature, must seek an independent mandate within 12 months. And since Premier Andrew Furey did
Note: I know you’re all probably expecting me to have a write-up on the Laurentian University omnishambles, but contrary to popular belief I both have a day job and require sleep, so you’re all going to have to wait another 24 hours for me to put that one together. In the meantime… A few months ago, I made the point that Canadian policymakers at both the federal and provincial levels have more or less given up on the idea of economic
To: Demetrios Nicolaides, Minister of Advanced Education, Alberta From: That guy from HESA Towers Dear Minister, So, you have finally got to the end of the Alberta 2030 Process. Congratulations! The question now is: where do you go from here? When the UCP came to power, it had two fundamental aims with respect to higher education: reduce government expenditures to fit the province’s new post-oil-bust financial circumstances and make institutions more active partners in the province’s economic development. Both were entirely
At noon eastern today, Joe Biden will take the Oath of Office and become the 46th President of the United States. The Pumpkin Fascist may be out of our hair, at least for awhile, what with the pending bankruptcy, sexual assault charges, tax, bank and real estate fraud charges, the emoluments case, plus whatever charges he will face for his role in the Cosplay March on Rome earlier this month. But the country still faces the task of getting out of
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