Canada’s largest students’ union, the Alma Mater Society – University of British Columbia, will be discussing its membership in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations during a meeting tonight. I don’t know which way the discussion will go tonight and my sources are unable to predict an outcome either.…
I will have at least three posts related to the University of British Columbia tonight, this is the first. Congratulations to The Ubyssey [http://www.ubyssey.ca/] on their 90th anniversary. The Globe and Mailran a piece [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081022.BCHAWTHORN22/TPStory/National] on The…
Update: The University has found housing for the displaced students. 554 students who lived in McMaster University’s Brandon Hall are scrambling to collect the pieces and find new housing arrangements as they learn the full extend of the damage to their residence building. Damage to the building is so…
newsdurhamregion.com ran a story today [http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/article/110955] on the failure of Oshawa’s controversial anti-student housing bylaw. As predicted, the bylaw has created a student housing crisis with only 11 houses near the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College being approved by…
The president of Ontario’s Redeemer University, one of the provinces private institutions, will be retiring [http://thespec.com/News/Local/article/453182] after more than a decade as president of the institution. Justin Cooper became president of Redeemer in 1994 and lead the campaign to gain university status for…
McMaster University will be holding a information session for parents and students at 7pm tonight. I will be attending. For those parents and students that cannot attend the session, McMaster will be streaming the session live over the Internet. More information and streaming link here. [http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/worthmentioning.…
The Queen’s Journalreports [http://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2008-10-17/news/ams-seeks-out-new-alliance/] that Queen’s undergraduate student union, the Alma Mater Society, is considering membership in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA). If the AMS decides to join, they will be one of at least two unions to join…
The University of New Brunswick is investigating allegations that a law student has spread hate literature online, according to a report [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2008/10/17/nb-hate-online.html] by the CBC. The only question the university should be asking is if the student used university…