NewsAlert: Wall wants meeting at Saskatoon university after professor fired

REGINA – Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he wants an urgent meeting between the province and the board of the University of Saskatchewan over a professor’s firing.

Robert Buckingham was stripped of his tenure and banned from the Saskatoon campus after he wrote a letter critical of budget cuts.

Wall says he has spoken with the board and its chairman and expects the meeting to happen soon.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers is calling on the university’s president to immediately reinstate Buckingham.

The association says in a release on its website that Buckingham’s firing is an embarrassment to post-secondary education across Canada.

Association director James Turk says the only way the university can restore its reputation is to publicly apologize to and reinstate Buckingham.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers is the national voice for 68,000 academic and general staff at more than 120 universities and colleges across the country.