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Harper’s attack on science: No science, no evidence, no truth, no democracy

Carol Linnitt

Science—and the culture of evidence and inquiry it supports—has a long relationship with democracy. Widely available facts have long served as a […]

Signification du carré vert : Raison pour laquelle de nombreux étudiants sont opposés à la grève

Arielle Grenier

Le 30 mars 2011, le ministre des Finances du Québec, Raymond Bachand, annonçait que les étudiants devraient payer davantage pour leurs études […]

Humour, Technology

“Hello, Professor Penfold? It’s the fiscal crisis calling.”

Steve Penfold

By the time this column is published, I will have no telephone in my office. It turns out that phones are really […]

Behind the Green Square: Why Many Students Opposed the Strike

Arielle Grenier

Check out Martin Robert’s support of the student strike. This article has been translated from the original French. Read the French version […]

Equality of Opportunity, Equality of Means: An Argument for Low Tuition and the Student Strike

Daniel Weinstock

Read Jacob T. Levy’s take on this issue here. Political philosophers have taken in recent years to distinguishing between “ideal theory” and […]

The Quiet Campus: The Anatomy of Dissent at Canadian Universities

Ken Coates

The remarkable—a word that can be read in many different ways—2012 student protests in Quebec have stirred memories of the activist campuses […]

The High Cost of Low Tuition in Quebec

Jacob T. Levy

Read Daniel Weinstock’s take on this issue. At this writing, the student unions’ boycott of classes in Quebec has ended in success. […]

Not Another Brick in the Wall: Capitalism and Student Protests in Chile

Andrés Bernasconi

A few days ago, I visited a high school in a poor urban area in Western Santiago and met with the junior […]

“Ensemble, bloquons la hausse”: The Rationale Behind the Slogan

Martin Robert

In the spring of 2012 hundreds of thousands of Quebec students and their allies took to the streets to protest the government’s proposed tuition fee increase. Martin Robert makes the case against the tuition increase and proposes an alternative model in which tuition would be free in Quebec.

The Massive Open Online Professor

Stephen Carson and Jan Philipp Schmidt

The new open and social technologies may allow academics to have their cake and eat it, too. A professor can be a […]