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What’s going on at the University of Alberta?
By Sophia Martensen Last January, the University of Alberta announced it would be shifting away from Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) portfolios and replacing them with something new: Access, Community, and Belonging (ACB). Then, in September, the Mintz Report — from a provincial panel on post-secondary funding– recommended a new funding model for Alberta universities. Among the recommendations, the Report emphasized institutional neutrality and a move away from EDI. Now, CBC News has reported that the University of Alberta…
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Uninformed opinionators part 1: On the spurious arguments of Bill Ackman and others
By Yvette Hacks Ultracrepidarian – “Someone who has no special knowledge of a subject but who expresses an opinion about it.” That’s my word of the day, a word that I learned recently for people who, up to this point, I had referred to as “uninformed opinionators” or more formally epistemic trespassers. In particular, I…
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‘Say It Ain’t Divisive!’: How to Stifle the Work of Faculty Unions
By Honor Brabazon and Vincent Wong The article ‘Constitutional boundaries of faculty associations: The political line in the sand’, published in the Commentary section of the September–October 2025 CAUT Bulletin, is the latest in a series of attempts to stifle democratic debate and political engagement in Canadian faculty associations. The commentary appears to have been precipitated…