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Our Fair Employment Week campaign might have ended, but the fight to secure ongoing, stable employment for contract academic staff is far from over. These stories our members shared with us last week about working on contract speak to how we must address precarity at #UAlberta.

Quebec French-language universities states that Quebec’s new tuition structure will endanger anglophone universities & send a harmful message to students from elsewhere; while doing little to help francophone universities: #Echobox=1698257864" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/fr…

Montreal university students planning one-day strike to protest Quebec tuition hike plan. Click on the image below to read more ↓ montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-unive…

There's no academic freedom like "door freedom."

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life. I should think people would want to know that what they know is truly what the universe is like, or at least as close as they can get to it. -- Isaac Asimov, as mentioned in a 1988 interview by Bill Moyers

“McGill thrives in the context of Quebec. The more open our institutions are, the stronger our democracies are. Why you would want to take something that is working & demean it for petty reasons is bewildering to me.” Gopnik baffled by Quebec tuition plan montrealgazette.com/opinion/column…

📌International Day for Care #Care2023 🗓️29 October We need care and support systems that are based on #HumanRights, and that are gender-, disability-, and age-responsive. @CanadianLabour 📢#InvestInCare Now! 👉ituc-csi.org/care

“People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion.” — A. Einstein (1879-1955)

ICYMI: I spoke with several Montrealers — and one Ottawa parent whose daughter had considered studying here — about their frustration, disappointment and anger over the #Quebec government’s decision. Tuition fee hike and CAQ rhetoric 'a slap in the face' cultmtl.com/2023/10/quebec…

« Les nouvelles mesures n’ajoutent pas de $ à l’enveloppe attribuée au réseau universitaire québécois. Elles ne font que redistribuer les $ actuelles, avec des retombées peut-être marginales. » Contente de voir les universités francophones s’exprimer! 👏👏 lapresse.ca/dialogue/opini…

“At a time of growing international hostility towards refugees, Canadian scholars must remain mindful of our obligations to support our colleagues in the defence of democracy, academic freedom and human rights.” Read the full President’s Message: caut.ca/bulletin/2023/…

An article published today by the Tribune (student newspaper at @mcgillu) about @AMPE_AMPE : what led @Edumcgill profs to organize and how McGill is contesting us. thetribune.ca/news/education…

Closing out the #CASConf2023 with one last roundtable discussion - Emerging Issues for Contract Academic Staff "A growing sense of solidarity for contract academic staff issues."

Poland’s ‘watershed’ election brings hope for academics After eight years under an increasingly hostile Law and Justice government, researchers are hoping for an about-turn on academic freedom and critical studies, writes @benwupton bit.ly/3Q7Ktxh

“I would say to minister Pascale Déry, who’s minister of higher education in Qc, that, as the minister, her mandate is to protect these institutions & the students who put their trust in them.” Qc university student unions to fight province's tuition hike montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-univers…

Éducation : pourquoi interdire les écrans des salles de classes? Nous en parlons, cette semaine, à @JVPLS #education #numerique #jeunes sciencepresse.qc.ca/vote-pour-scie…

La hausse des frais de scolarité sera un «coup dur» pour Montréal, croit Valérie Plante | La mairesse estime qu’il est possible de protéger la langue française sans devoir se priver des étudiants étrangers. bit.ly/401mELY #polqc

La Presse: “It’s Open Season on Anglo Students” Le Devoir: “Out-of-province tuition price hikes will make us intellectually poorer.” The Quebec government’s shortsighted plan to kneecap Anglo universities is causing tons of strife - inside the government, within business circles, and with the public at large. Good. Let the government sleep in the bed they made last week. They deserve this humiliation.

Job security, fair pay, and benefits for contract faculty will deliver fairness for workers and protect the high‐quality education our students deserve. #fairness4CF #CdnPSE #OnPSE #OnLAB #OnPOLI #BrockU #MakeItFair makeitfair.caut.ca

In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal for her groundbreaking discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces. She made significant contributions to the field of mathematics, particularly in the area of hyperbolic geometry and the study of geometric structures on surfaces. Sadly, Maryam Mirzakhani passed away in 2017 at the age of 40 due to complications from breast cancer. Her untimely death was a significant loss to the mathematical community. 📷 Mott Carter/Clay Mathematics Institute