Research on Education and Training in Northern Ontario

December 30, 2025

Leadbeater, David. 2025. “Inside Doug Ford’s Plan to Starve Ontario’s Universities,” The Walrus, Feb. 23. 3,730 words.

https://thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-fords-plan-to-starve-ontarios-universities/

Leadbeater, David. 2021. “Laurentian University Insolvency Reflects a Structural Crisis in Ontario’s Neoliberal University System.” The Monitor (CCPA), June 10. 2200 words.

https://monitormag.ca/articles/laurentian-university-insolvency-reflects-a-structural-crisis-in-ontarios-neoliberal-university-system.

Disponsible en français sous la titre: “L’insolvabilité de l’Université Laurentienne reflète une crise structurelle du système universitaire néolibéral en Ontario” (le 6 août).

https://monitormag.ca/articles/linsolvabilit%C3%A9-de-luniversit%C3%A9-laurentienne-refl%C3%A8te-une-crise-structurelle-du-syst%C3%A8me-universitaire-n%C3%A9olib%C3%A9ral-en-ontario/

Leadbeater, David and Caitlin K. Kiernan. 2021. Decline and Crisis in Ontario’s Northern Universities and Arts Education. Study published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 82 pages.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/decline-and-crisis-ontario%E2%80%99s-northern-universities-and-arts-education

Leadbeater, David and Peter Suschnigg. 1997. “Training as the Principal Focus of Adjustment Policy: A Critical View from Northern Ontario,” Canadian Public Policy 23 (1), March: 1-22.

Training as the Principal Focus of Adjustment Policy