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Parties’ post-secondary platforms broken down

By Samir Mechel With the 44th Canadian federal election quickly approaching on September 20, students should be aware of each federal party’s policies on post-secondary education. Many new policies have been crafted this year with [...]

Indigenous, French and English communities come together to demand new Indigenous and French universities in Sudbury

By Drew Garvie On Thursday, September 9 the Tricultural Committee for University Education at Sudbury held a press conference to release a declaration demanding a new approach to university education in Sudbury and Northern Ontario. In the wake [...]

N’Swakamok Reconciliation Declaration

For an Equal and Truthful Trilateral Path to University Restoration at Sudbury (La version française suit) September 9, 2021 On February 1, 2021, the Laurentian President and Board of Governors launched its disastrous CCAA course [...]

Labour and student unity needed to stop the destruction at Laurentian University and across Canada

April 12 is being called “Black Monday” by residents of Sudbury, Ontario. That was the day that Laurentian University publicized plans to cut 69 programs and issue mass layoffs which will impact at least 150 faculty and staff. Eight hundred students [...]

Laurentian bankruptcy: neoliberal policies get the failing grade

The February 1 announcement that Sudbury, Ontario’s Laurentian University had gone bankrupt made front page headlines and sent shock waves across the country. There’s good reason for this – universities are public institutions, and they are supposed [...]

Organizing against precarity: Academic workers at the front of the class

Think of academic work and you probably have an image of a professor, snuggled in a cardigan in a charmingly cluttered office enjoying a glass of brandy while pontificating through a well-paid tenured position and into a lucrative pension. Think [...]