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Ontario College Faculty are 15,000 professors, counsellors, librarians and instructors. We are part of OPSEU/SEFPO.
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(1/4) While the Ontario government has announced new funding reviews, Ontario’s public universities continue to receive the lowest level of provincial funding in the country, and it is not close.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Scholars at Risk’s most recent Free to Think report highlights the threats to academic freedom around the world, documenting 328 verified incidents of attacks on higher education in 49 countries and territories from July 2024 to June 2025.

Learn more in the latest Bulletin: buff.ly/ucPlxWM
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December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Ready to welcome delegates from across the country for the 99th Council Meeting.

Prêts à accueillir des délégués de tout le pays pour la 99e Réunion de l’Assemblée du Conseil.
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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caut.bsky.social
Welcome to our newest member, the Association of McGill Library Academic Staff!

Bienvenue à notre tout nouveau membre, l’Association du personnel académique des bibliothèques de McGill!
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
caatfaculty.bsky.social
Utterly shameful. It's time for this provincial government to acknowledge its responsibility and properly fund the post-secondary education sector.
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ocufa.bsky.social ocufa.bsky.social @ocufa.bsky.social · 23d
Ontario’s universities have the lowest per-student funding of any province in Canada. The provincial government can address this embarrassing gap by funding our universities at $11.75 for the next 5 years.

Read the full article: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Image of a Toronto Star opinion piece on a tablet. The title of the article is: opinion - federal budget creates a massive educational opportunity for Doug Ford. A pulled quote at the top of the image reads: The premier has a golden political opportunity to swoop in to save Ontario’s universities by restoring adequate public funding for post-secondary institutions. But more importantly, the premier has an opportunity to leave a lasting, meaningful legacy for Ontario’s young people and the province’s future prosperity. Diane Orihel, Associate Professor at Queen's University
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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We are happy to announce that SMU PT Faculty members have ratified the Tentative Agreement. Members will return to work and classes will resume on Monday.

Congratulations everyone!

#cdnpse #canlab

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November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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(1/4) The Government of Ontario has been interfering systemically and structurally with the Laurentian University Faculty Association’s free and fair collective bargaining rights.
Teal background with a white quote symbol at the top, followed by the words in white, bold text: "The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations and the Canadian Association of University Teachers are both supporting LUFA and will seek intervenor status in this charter challenge." Below the text is an iPhone displaying the CTV News article: Faculty union at Laurentian to make a human rights challenge over pension plan bargaining by Darren MacDonald. Published November 17, 2025 at 12:45PM EST. Teal background with a white quote symbol at the top, followed by the words in white, bold text: "Bargaining belongs to us: not the government, not the courts." Below that in smaller white text the quote is attributed to: "Fabrice Colin, President of the Laurentian University Faculty Association." Taking up the bottom two thirds of the frame, a tablet displays the Sudbury Star article: Laurentian union launches constitutional challenge as contract talks begin by Harold Carmichael. Published November 17, 2025.
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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www.thestar.com/news/gta/geo...
George Brown suspended hospitality programs here, but still runs them in Dubai. ‘That doesn’t make sense,’ say faculty
The international partnership was agreed to just before a provincial ban. The college said the overseas school “serves a different student market.”
www.thestar.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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University students are rallying against Bill 33.

www.excal.on.ca/news/2025/11...
Students rally for hands off their education - Excalibur
A recap of the YFS-coordinated Bill 33 press conference.
www.excal.on.ca
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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"..suppressing teachers’ rights is exactly what the UCP intended to do...And if the UCP can take the rights away from 50,000 of them, then nobody’s safe."

@acifa.bsky.social's @drmacd.bsky.social & CAFA's Lee Easton on why we must fight Bill 2. @caut.bsky.social

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: If the UCP can take away teachers' rights, no one is safe
But Bill 2 does far more than end a strike. It turns fifty-thousand Albertan teachers into second-class citizens.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) seeks a Development Operations Engineer, Data & Analytics Department to be based in Washington, DC [Headquarters]. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @afscme.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Join us next Wednesday, Oct. 22 for the #FairEmploymentWeek keynote! Register for the webinar now to hear Dr. Kendra Strauss discuss academic freedom and precarity.

More information: www.caut.ca/event/a-disc...
Promotional image for CAUT's Fair Employment Week keynote. Photo of speaker Dr. Kendra Strauss with text that reads "Make it Fair. A Discussion with Dr. Kendra Strauss on academic freedom and precarity. Wednesday, October 22 at 12pm EDT."
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Collect them all; Eject them all
October 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Doug Ford's privatization agenda is dismantling the Ontario college system. It's time to stand up for our public colleges!

Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor general
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
BREAKING: Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor general
Ford government labour ministers overruled civil servants to fund skills training by groups with lobbyists, according to a scathing new report
www.thetrillium.ca
October 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Call the Premier to fund our schools and keep democratically elected trustees! Here is the sample phone script: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
September 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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At the OPSEU support rally today
September 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Sounds familiar. Is this the same playbook used by the Dal BoG in the current labour dispute with @dalfaculty.bsky.social Dalhousie faculty members? What's the role of the NS govt? @keepdalstrong.bsky.social
caatfaculty.bsky.social College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · Sep 15
“Why are they spending so much money to make the school beautiful...but not offering the very core, the purpose of what a community college is for?”
Great article breaking down the manufactured crisis in the Ontario college system:
www.thegrindmag.ca/the-manufact...
The Manufactured Crisis in Ontario Colleges
Are college finances really so bad that huge cuts are needed, or is Doug Ford up to something else? Ben McCarthy, a college contract faculty worker and OPSEU member, breaks it down.
www.thegrindmag.ca
September 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
caatfaculty.bsky.social
“Why are they spending so much money to make the school beautiful...but not offering the very core, the purpose of what a community college is for?”
Great article breaking down the manufactured crisis in the Ontario college system:
www.thegrindmag.ca/the-manufact...
The Manufactured Crisis in Ontario Colleges
Are college finances really so bad that huge cuts are needed, or is Doug Ford up to something else? Ben McCarthy, a college contract faculty worker and OPSEU member, breaks it down.
www.thegrindmag.ca
September 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
caatfaculty.bsky.social
The Ford government is dismantling the Ontario public college system.
Defunding the system and funneling money into the Skills Development Fund endangers the province's economy and the futures of our students and communities.
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September 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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We were out early this morning visiting folks on the picket line @AlgonquinColleg An incredible display of solidarity amongst @OPSEU 416 members and supporters. The line(s) is set up there from 7:00am to 5:00pm Monday-Friday.
September 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Algonquin College’s special needs adult education program to close in 2026 share.google/s83kh3nyGRql...
Parents protest closure of Algonquin College’s special needs adult education program
Joanne Mayne and her family joined dozens of people outside Algonquin College Thursday evening, protesting the closure of the college’s Academic Assistance for Adults with Developmental Disabilities p...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Where is the money going -- the money that SHOULD be invested into public colleges? Shame on Doug Ford for prioritizing privatization and profits instead of investing in our communities!
‘Shades of the Greenbelt’: questions raised about Ontario’s $2.5-billion private career training fund
An Ontario public-sector union is crying foul about grants given out from a multi-billion-dollar provincial fund for private career training, even as the province’s public colleges face unprecedented ...
www.ctvnews.ca
September 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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More cuts announced at Conestoga College "to maintain the future financial viability of the college" while President John Tibbits' take home salary last year was $640,005.41, a 29% increase from 2023! #shame #saveourcolleges #conestogacollege
Conestoga lays off faculty, cuts more programs on orientation week
Conestoga issued layoff notices to 11 fulltime faculty and two counsellors this week, and suspended fall programming in areas like manufacturing engineering, sustainable development engineering, build...
www.therecord.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Here's more coverage on yesterday's rally

#saveourcolleges #belleville #loyalistcollege @opseusefpo.bsky.social
Hundreds at Loyalist College rally in support of Ontario colleges
A crowd of several hundred people at Belleville’s Loyalist College on Wednesday vowed to fight cuts there and at other Ontario colleges.
www.intelligencer.ca
September 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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We had a great rally yesterday at @loyalistcollege.bsky.social - did you hear us? #belleville #loyalistcollege #saveourcolleges @opseusefpo.bsky.social
Rally for the future of Loyalist College draws big crowd
With chants of 'our college, our future,' a large number of faculty, support staff, students and union support...
www.quintenews.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM