Bar graph made up of stacks of coins to show the current and potential future value of the Canada Student Grant. The first bar shows the current value at $4200 and the second bar shows the potential future value as of August 2026 at $3000.
The Canada Student Grant is currently $4200 but could be cut to $3000 for the next academic year.
College and university students in Canada already struggle with the cost of tuition and day-to-day necessities. This cut would be devastating.
Student support should be increasing, not decreasing.
10.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Check out these two sabbatical presentations from two of our members tomorrow!
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If you're an OCADFA member with events upcoming, please let us know at:
ocadfacomms@gmail.com
09.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OCADFA stands in solidarity with progressive Jewish groups & artists rejecting donor interference & the weaponization of antisemitism to silence political and artistic expression at the AGO.
🔗 Sign the petition:
www.tinyurl.com/NIONpetition
06.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Public AI: A Necessary Fight
By Min Sook Lee, Faculty of Art A friend recently told me he has “woken” his AI. He has trained it to think like a structural Marxist.
If we teach our students to treat AI as a neutral tool, we are training them to become compliant operators inside privatized cognitive systems.
Read the full article:
www.tinyurl.com/AI-MinSook
04.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI, EdTech, and OCAD U
by Ross Bullen, Faculty of Arts and Science Faculty at OCAD University recently received an email from IT Services and the Centre for Learning and Teaching containing a link to a “Faculty AI Tool Usag...
"The most charitable thing I can say about AI at OCAD U is that all of us – students, staff, and faculty – should have the right to not use it. But this is not a straightforward proposition."
Read the full piece here:
www.tinyurl.com/AI-RBullen
#EdTech #aiart
30.01.2026 15:19 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
For more information about how you can send your support to the Laurentian University Faculty Association (LUFA) visit our website: ocadfa.ca/blog/2026/01...
@ocufa.bsky.social
29.01.2026 19:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ines Tang: Know Your MoA Zine Artist!
My name is Ines Tang and I’m a third year illustration student. I'm also the current Executive Director of Campaigns and Advocacy at the OCAD Student Union.
Meet the artist of the illustrated summary of the Memorandum of Agreement signed between the University and our union.
OCADFA is deeply indebted to the hard work of OCAD University student and illustrator Ines Tang who spearheaded this project!
Read the full article here
www.tinyurl.com/InesTang
29.01.2026 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read the detailed response on our newsletter or Linkedin:
www.tinyurl.com/DG-jan2026
Do you have a question for OCADFA?
Send them to:
www.tinyurl.com/DearGraeme
28.01.2026 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The latest OCADFA Newsletter is available for download:
www.tinyurl.com/Dispatch-12026
26.01.2026 15:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Due to the incoming snow storm and what is sure to be a hectic day for many of our members tomorrow we have decided to postpone the OCADFA Town Hall.
Stay tuned for the re-scheduling announcement.
25.01.2026 18:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Check out our LinkedIn page if you haven't yet:
www.linkedin.com/company/ocadfa
There we can post long form articles and news.
We hope you will join us there!
23.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Visit us online at:
www.ocadfa.ca
21.01.2026 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you are an OCADFA member and have something you want to promote that connects to your work please do get in touch!
Send us a message and we can include it in our newsletter and potentially share it on social media.
Email Alex at: ocadfacomms@gmail.com
20.01.2026 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Monday, 26 January 2026
1-2:30pm | Room 230, 100 McCaul
Light refreshments and pizza will be available.
19.01.2026 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ADMINISTRATION:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocadfa...
15.01.2026 16:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Faculty and academic staff are being asked to do more, with less. We all deserve better!
14.01.2026 15:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know that less than half of OCAD’s faculty have access to health benefits? That’s unacceptable.
For those who are eligible to join the group benefits plan, we saw some modest increases in the last round of bargaining, but we’re still well behind sector norms and well behind what is needed.
13.01.2026 17:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In our 2024 Membership Survey, 76% of respondents said high instructor-to-student ratios were affecting the quality of course delivery, and 73% reported that it has affected their ability to provide support for students.
12.01.2026 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
OCADFA members who are in financial need can apply to this fund. They can receive up to $250 of financial assistance within 10 days of applying for it.
Details:
www.tinyurl.com/OCADFAfund
09.01.2026 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More than half the faculty are OCAD are precariously employed with no pathway to permanency. It doesn’t have to be this way.
OCAD the college had more faculty stability than OCAD the university – this is unacceptable.
www.ocadfa.ca
#AcademicPrecarity
08.01.2026 14:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OCAD U lags behind other universities in terms of working conditions, benefits & pay.
That why Fair and Reasonable Compensation is at the heart of our negotiating plans.
www.ocadfa.ca
@ocufa.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social
07.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We'll be hosting a town hall at the end of the month where we'll talk about the right to strike.
Monday, 26 January 2026
1-2:30pm | Room 230, 100 McCaul
Currently, OCADFA does NOT have this right. What does that mean, and should we pursue it?
We want your thoughts!
06.01.2026 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And we're back from the holidays!
We hope everyone had a nice and relaxing time off and we wish the the absolute best for 2026!
If you haven't seen/downloaded it already, below is a link to our "Know your MoA" zine! A short, illustrated MOA!
www.tinyurl.com/zineOCADFA
05.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Holidays Everyone!
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And just a reminder that our office will be closed from Monday, 22 December to Friday, 2 January. We will be reopening on Monday, 5 January 2026.
23.12.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trade unions and labor environmentalism (TULE) is a group of early career researchers that explores how trade unions can advance working-class environmentalism. We organize regular events: https://tulelabour.org/get-updates/
https://tulelabour.org/about
Ontario College Faculty are 15,000 professors, counsellors, librarians and instructors. We are part of OPSEU/SEFPO.
Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual masters, Buddha's teachings and putting the teachings into practice. Tibet,Tibetan people as well as others who are suffering.
Photo: The Dalai Lama
On my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, mother of Matthieu Ricard.
L'Association des professeur·es à temps partiel de l'Université d'Ottawa.
The Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa.
Labour Studies Professor at Brock University | Teach & research collective bargaining, unions & labour politics |
brocku.ca/lsavage
Saint Mary's University Faculty Union
Representing ~300 full-time faculty and librarians since 1974
As the largest academic staff union in Canada, AASUA fights to protect our members' livelihoods.
Advocate for post-secondary education, faculty and students
SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him.
📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
Academic union member at UMFA. Active in CAUT and the CAUT DF.
Senior Lecturer at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, college of media / Founder and chief social media strategist at the Strategic Peacock // dog & dino enthusiast // MHC // Georgetown // Illinois MFA candidate
Emerg doc & researcher, UofToronto
-HTN; HF; health literacy & numeracy; emergency care
Views my own
Born @CO2 340ppm
#DavosSafe for all
@NashvegasEM on the bird app
"First do no harm" & "Hospes ultimus es"
(roughly: “Be the dead-end host”)
She/her
I’m an academic labour activist, professor, Classical philologist, and sports historian living and working in Winnipeg.
History prof at Carleton University: humanitarianism, children's rights, welfare state, families, disability, Québec, Canada, Africa.
President, UOIT Faculty Association. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Union Organizer in Halifax • MA Sociology, Free Public Transit
President Ontario Autism Coalition @ontautism.bsky.social
Epidemiologist (Laboratory & Public Health)
Settler - Robinson Superior Treaty (1850) Land
I ❤️ Science
PSE Labour Activist. Digital Humanities, Open Science, History of English Lang. English Professor. Department Chair.
Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA). University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (ULFA).
Lethbridge Herald Columnist.
