I made a quick trip into Toronto this morning to attend the unveiling of the Ryerson AMC Lecture Theatres. I travelled from Union Station in the lower part of downtown by foot to Ryerson. The new theatre is on the southern edge of Ryerson University and I decided I needed…
I was on-campus for a few hours at McMaster today meeting with people at The Silhouette. During my time there, the textbook credit came up in conversation. A student had just learned of it yesterday and immediately applied. Word is being spread by the McMaster Students Union which is conducting…
Murray Coell, B.C.’s minister responsible for screwing [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/08/27/this-is-getting-embarrassing/] up [http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/06/23/british-columbia-cabinet-shuffle-excellent-news/] advanced education, tells the [http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/victorianews/news/28064179.html] Victoria News that his province is reviewing their…
The University of Kentucky no longer includes a land line phone as part of their residence package. The University told [http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080909/NEWS0103/809090352&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL] The Associated Press the move will save the university $840,000 dollars and is preventing…
The latest planned location for David Asper’s new taxpayer subsidized football stadium is the University of Manitoba. Asper unveiled [http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4225783p-4863623c.html] his latest plans over the weekend. The idea could work. A shared stadium makes a lot of sense in Winnipeg; especially if…
Undergraduate students employed by McGill University are the target of an unionization drive led by fellow undergraduate students reports [http://www.mcgilldaily.com/article/4352-undergraduates-begin-unionization]The McGill Daily. The organizers are hoping to obtain union card signatures from at least 35 per cent of undergraduates employed by the university to…
The Varsity has documents that show it may have been [http://www.thevarsity.ca/article/4375-assu-s-crooked-election].…
This year’s CIS football season is less than a month old, but a year’s worth of history has already been packed in. Both the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and the Simon Fraser University Clan won their first games of the year. In both cases snapping major losing…