TUFA

TUFA’s Peterborough Social & Bargaining Rally is tomorrow!
Thurs, Oct 16 | 4:30–7 PM
Trent Student Centre, Event Space 1.07
Live music by Carpe Noctem, hot hors d’oeuvres & a host bar.
Join us to celebrate and support our Bargaining Team!
#TUFA #TrentU #Solidarity

TUFA Social & Bargaining Rally 🎶
Thursday, Oct 16 | 4:30–7 PM
Trent Student Centre, Event Space 1.07 (Symons campus)
Live music by Carpe Noctem, hot hors d’oeuvres, and a host bar!
Join us to support the Bargaining Team as we push to the finish line.
#TUFA #TrentU #Solidarity

Reminder: TUFA’s Durham Faculty Social is this Thursday, Oct 9 (3:30–5:30 pm) in Atrium A, Trent–Durham.
Free for all TUFA members: snacks, charcuterie, wine & beer provided!
Please RSVP tufa@trentu.ca.
#TUFA #TrentU #DurhamCampus

TUFA Scholasticide Committee invites you to a screening of The Encampments (dir. Macklemore, 2024) this Fri Oct 3, 6–9pm @ TCSA Event Space. Panel to follow on freedom of speech/assembly. Register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1685378054...

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On this day of reflection, remembrance, and action, CAUT, together with academic staff associations, honours the survivors of Canada’s residential school system who endured racism, violence and forced family separation.

Read more: www.caut.ca/news/caut-st...

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TUFA’s Executive Director walked the line this morning with OPSEU members, alongside Marcia Steeves, President of OPSEU 351 and the Peterborough & District Labour Council.

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In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.

Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.

Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

DFA members accepted the agreement/back-to-work protocol. @dalhousieu.bsky.social also ratified. Faculty will be back in the classrooms/labs with students Tuesday. Thanks to our members for their resolve, to students for their support and to unions across Canada for having our backs. #KeepDalStrong

Opinion: A stronger Canada needs a healthy post-secondary sector But little attention has been given to reasonable levels of public funding amid disruptive changes to policies on international study

"In stark contrast to the aspirations of a more prosperous, productive Canada, governments at all levels have abandoned the post-secondary sector to shuttered programs. Highly qualified personnel are being displaced at an unprecedented rate."

Read more...
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Ontario PC Bill 33 will allow the provincial government to interfere politically in university admissions and end fact-based university efforts to even the playing field for student applicants higheredstrategy.com/code-red-on-...

It’s election day in Canada and universities and colleges need your help.

Across the country, colleges and universities are facing drastic program cuts, layoffs and campus closures.

Don’t forget to vote today – tell the federal government they need to act NOW to save PSE.

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.

Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Politicians don’t get to dictate what is taught and researched at Canadian colleges and universities.

Research and institutional funding shouldn’t come with political strings attached.

Join us: education2025.ca

U.S. government is asking Canadian researchers whether their work deals with DEI, climate, gender Questions to grant recipients infringe on academic independence, Canadian faculty group says

"Although the consequences of a yes or no answer are not spelled out, Mr. Robinson said the implications seem clear: Projects not compatible with the views of the U.S. government may lose their funding."

Read more: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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It’s election day in Ontario and universities and colleges need your help.

Ontario colleges and universities are facing drastic program cuts, layoffs and campus closures.

Don’t forget to vote today – tell the Ontario government they need to act NOW to save PSE.

On Feb 27, vote to end the gigification of teaching. Universities need a funding
model that supports long-term, stable, and permanent positions for contract
faculty.
Email the party leaders now and ask them to commit to #Fairness4CF:
buff.ly/4k2uXRA

On Canadian university and college campuses, students should be free to learn and teachers free to teach. Post-secondary education needs to remain free from political interference. app.sosha.ai/s/l7pSMqLl