Magazine

September/October 2005: The Battle for Canadian Universities

Volume 39, Number 5

Double issue, launching CD’s major design makeover! Feature: The Battle for Canadian Universities, featuring articles on privatization of, and corporate influence on Canadian Institutions of Higher Learning and Militrary research and funding at Canadian Universities. Also an interview with Sherene Razack about her new book Dark Threats & White Knights, and more.

• Regulars

• Canada Needs a Real Public Health Care System
  Editorial
• The Horowitz Paragraph: We Should Be So Lucky
  by Gad Gorowitz
• The Labour Report: Leaders and Members at Odds on CLC
  by Geoff Bickerton
• Québec Communiqué: Electing a Constituent Assembly
  by Pierre Dostie

• FIRST ARGUMENTS

• The Panhandler Law: Criminalizing Poverty in Winnipeg
  by Harold Dyck
• The Party’s (Almost) Over: “Peak Oil” and the Coming Global Energy Crisis
  by Tony Black

• FOCUS

• Subversion and the University
  by Andrea Levy
• Privatizing Canada’s Public Universities
  by Claire Polster
• Private Pretensions: The Battle for Canada’s Universities
  by David Noble
• Who’re Ya Gonna Call? Not the Corporate University
  by Arthur Schafer
• Business of Universities: A Call for Transparency in our Institutions of Higher Learning
  by Marc Spooner & Tanya Shaw
• Monsanto, Lawyers, Lies and Videotape: Seeds of Censorship Sown at the University of Manitoba
  by Jim Sanders
• Academics in the Service of War: Military Research and Funding at Canadian Universities
  by Paul A. Hamel

• INTERVIEW

• Peacekeeping: The New White Man’s Burden Interview with Sherene Razack
  by Jerome Klassen

• FORUM FOR IDEAS

• War on Shareholders
  by Harry Glasbeek
• Personal Dimension: Becoming a Left Oppositionist
  by Bryan Palmer

• ALL THAT’S LEFT

• Rick Slye’s Left Film Guide
• A Twist on War of the Worlds
  by Louis Proyect
• Book Review: Dancin’ in the Streets
  by Len Wallace
• On the Edge: The Bono/Geldof Compromise that Doomed Live8
  by Lesley Hughes