Last week I and a number of members of Canadians for Accountability attended the mandatory arbitration hearing for Denis Rancourt, who was fired by the University of Ottawa in 2009. The reason given was his pedagogy – which, contrary to university policy, included a simple pass/fail system in which those who passed got an A+. [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/10/17/denis-rancourt-vs-the-u-of-o-the-saga-continues/
News Summary and Comment: There are many accountability stories again today, but the three key ones are the same as last week: the judge selection scandal in Quebec, the Helena Guergis affair and the Afghan detainee controversy. The first, dealing with allegations that Premier Jean Charest knew that judge appointments were being tainted by construction [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/04/19/media-update-for-april-19-2010/
On January 14, Denis Rancourt – the University of Ottawa’s notorious “activist teacher” – released a report detailing allegations that the University hired a spy to covertly monitor his activities in the period leading up his (contested) dismissal. The accused spy has denied the allegations, University officials have systematically declined to comment (or else ignored [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/02/27/cover-ups-101-at-university-of-ottawa/