Laurentian union launches constitutional challenge as contract talks begin   

On the eve of the start of collective bargaining talks between Laurentian University and the union representing its faculty, the union announced it will be filing a challenge under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, citing interference by the province in the collective bargaining process. “Bargaining belongs to us: not the government, not the courts,” Fabrice Colin, president of the Laurentian University Faculty Association, said Monday at a press conference in the student&