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Facts are facts: Certification and retiree benefits
I do not support certification. I believe the majority of members share my apprehension to unionization. I will avoid making empty...
Benefits risked in Arbitration, 2022-2023 - A letter to retirees
UTFA has long taken great pride that retired members receive the same benefits as active librarians and faculty. In the latest round of...
Listening to Public Health
In 2020-21, the university made huge updates to ventilation systems across campus. Many of the new HEPA filters that the university...
EDI Statement
We all cherish the notion that Toronto is a diverse city, where the Indigenous and people from all parts of the world, races,...
IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism & Trying to Get Along
There are people focused on, maybe even obsessed with, the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and the sad thing is that their advocacy for...
On leadership and apologies
“I acknowledge that the words I used caused pain and distress to many of my colleagues, who experienced them as insults.” Last June, my...


Child Care Benefits
I know a pre-tenure colleague who decided not to pay for after-school care this year for her five-year-old in order to save costs. At...


A Pragmatic Approach to Re-Opening
We can debate whether Toronto is the Harvard of the north, or whether Harvard is the Toronto of the south (or east), but there is no...


Challenges to Academic Freedom
One of the biggest controversies in recent years centered around the aborted hiring of a staff member at the Faculty of Law whose...
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