[the_ad id=”12709″] Judging by most of my mail bag, yesterday’s piece on the York strike was a hit. So, I thought I would throw in two tidbits which I didn’t really get to yesterday, as well as give my suggestion for a way out of the strike. Tidbit 1: For those of you who don’t know the geography of York: it’s massive. The main Keele campus is over 450 acres. But, in a terrible for management/great for labour act of
Back on March 5, CUPE local 3903, which represents graduate students, contract faculty and graduate assistants at York University, went on strike. A university offer was resoundingly rejected by the union membership in early April. The union has consistently rejected arbitration. The Liberals dithered about back-to-work legislation until so late in the legislative session that it could easily be blocked by the NDP (which it was, as could easily have been foreseen given the NDP pledge never to use back-to-work legislation).
You may have heard that there is an election on in Ontario. I tried my best to leave the province for the duration but I’m back now, and holy Moses I wish I weren’t. It is truly godawful. A dumpster fire, as the kids say. But duty calls, and so, forthwith, the traditional HESA platform analysis. Let’s start with the Liberals, whose platform on higher education is essentially that from the last budget: a commitment to a student aid program of targeted
The Canadian tech sector has two modes: self-hype and self-pity. Neither is very pretty. You may recently have seen articles floating around the internet talking about how great Canada is as a tech destination, how Canada is “winning”/ can “win” the AI race (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean – the verb “to win” takes on vast new meanings in these articles). There’s been one every two weeks or so, often from big American magazines, for the last
There’s a new policy fashion in student aid and it’s called “debt-free PSE” (or debt-free college, depending on which side of the border you reside). But what does it mean? Some might think of debt-free PSE as being similar to tuition-free PSE, but in fact they are quite different in practice for two reasons. The first difference is that under debt-free PSE, the level of tuition can be anything you please: the only thing that is constant is that all
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