Articles from Canada
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 April 2013 Canada: CSQ holds rendezvous on early childhood education
The provision of quality early childhood education (ECE) services has been highlighted as an important entitlement for all young children at a Centrale des Syndicats du Québec (CSQ) meeting.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 18 February 2013 Canada: Teachers’ guide to copyright released
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), one of EI’s national affiliates, has released the third edition of ‘Copyright Matters! Some Key Questions and Answers for Teachers’. The publication takes into account key changes that have occurred in the area of copyright since the previous edition, published in 2005.
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 December 2012 Canada: Union condemns government’s assault on democracy
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), one of EI’s national affiliates, has heavily criticised the Harper Conservative government for pushing Bill C-377 through the House of Commons without a fair debate and without hearing the voices of those affected by the legislation. They describe the bill as mean-spirited, biased and wasteful...
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Standards and working conditions 9 November 2012 Evaluation – a necessary evil?Evaluation – a necessary evil?
Sylvain Marois
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 November 2012 The Québec Maple Spring:The Québec Maple Spring:
Bernard Bérubé
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Trade union rights are human rights 7 November 2012 Canada: Students across Quebec learn lessons in online privacy
On 5 November, schools across Quebec joined an event hosted by Laurier Macdonald High School in Montreal, to launch Media Literacy Week 2012. Students had the opportunity to talk with a panel of experts about online privacy as part of this year’s theme Privacy Matters.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2012 Canada: Teachers are forced to pay for the deficit in Ontario
Mass demonstrations by students and teachers alike were held on 19 September in opposition to the Putting Students First Act, or Bill 115, passed on 11 September. Those opposed deplore the fact that the Bill deprives Ontario’s teachers of their right to collective-bargaining actions and unprofessionally withholds their due wages.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 August 2012 Canada: teacher unions’ demand fair collective bargaining process
Canadian educator unionists have condemned the Ontarian liberal government’s ultimatum for local teachers’ unions and school boards that has both sides of the conflict currently in a stalemate. Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten said that if the teachers' unions and school boards do not sign the proposed new deals by...
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Equity and inclusion 13 July 2012 Canada: Deficit is not an excuse for underfunding Aboriginal education
Former Prime Minister Paul Martin has delivered a keynote address at the Canada Teachers’ Federation (CTF) Annual General Meeting held under the theme, “Teacher organisations: charting the course for democracy,” from 11-13 July in Halifa, Nova Scotia.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 July 2012 Canada: Gap between teachers’ hopes and practice
External forces often change the way teachers teach, with just under half of teachers occasionally having opportunities to teach as they aspire to. That’s according to a 2012 joint research report from the Canadian Education Association (CEA) and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF).
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Union renewal and development 2 July 2012 Quebec teachers' union elects new president
For the first time in its history, the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), EI's largest member union in Quebec, elected a nurse, Ms Louise Chabot, as its President. Ms. Chabot succeeds Mr Réjean Parent, who led the organisation since 2003.
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Trade union rights are human rights 13 June 2012 Canada: education union supports bill tackling cyberbullying
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), one of EI’s national affiliates, has voiced its support for Bill C-273, an act that will reclassify cyberbullying as an offence.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 May 2012 Canada: Quebec’s “special law” violates students’ rights
EI national affiliates, the Confédération des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), the Fédération nationale des enseignantes et des enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ-CSN), and the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) have strongly condemned Quebec’s Bill 78. This legislation, tabled to end the 14-week student strike, violates fundamental freedoms of association, assembly,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 May 2012 Canada: Schools tackle mental illness stigma
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), one of EI’s national affiliates, has welcomed the Opening Minds Anti-Stigma Programme of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. This programme offers contact-based education to primary and high school students.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 April 2012 Canada: Student strike in Quebec over access to education
Four EI affiliates, the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), the Fédération nationale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ-CSN), the Fédération québecoise des professeures et professeurs d’université (FQPPU), and the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) have lent their support to the strike by students in Quebec against a...
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Standards and working conditions 13 March 2012 Canada: unions step up to the plate on Quebec’s education future
Over 400 education professionals along with lecturers (sociologists, academics and trade unionists) from Quebec and France, discussed the big issues in education today at the two-day Grand Rendez-vous de l’Education (Education Summit) 2012 hosted by its affiliate, Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), on 21-22 February 2012 in Laval.
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Equity and inclusion 9 January 2012 Canada: CTF welcomes UN decision to conduct inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) Executive Committee has endorsed the decision made by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to conduct an inquiry into the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls across Canada.
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Equity and inclusion 8 December 2011 Canada: Enhancing indigenous peoples’ education
The Advisory Committee on Aboriginal Education of the Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF), one of EI’s national affiliates, has endorsed the Initiative of Ashoka Changemakers, a global online community, aiming at sharing ideas or projects about supporting First Nations, Métis and Inuit learners.
Canada: Enhancing indigenous peoples’ education