Concordia Student Union council member detained in China

Chris Schwartz, 24, who is potentially**** a council member [http://www.csu.qc.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=17] 1, according to information [http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=1a85eaa0-0de9-486a-a69e-c0d4052cb036] in The Montreal Gazette, is a full-time staff member of…

UWindsor students get their drink back on

The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance is providing [http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=b7dcadb2-c6d1-4542-b298-f3c44b3381ba] a $55,000 loan to reopen the money-losing student pub. Maybe changing the pub will work, maybe it won’t. At least there is a recognition the current model of business was…

King Danny delivers a new spin

Apparently, if King Danny is telling the truth [http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=159566&sc=79], it wasn’t that his government requested to interview candidates for president of Memorial University – no, his government was asked to do so by Memorial. King Danny was too busy to conduct…

Paris Hilton responds to McCain Ad

I can’t wait to see how this moves the polls. In what’s like the totally hottest campaign video of the year, Paris Hilton responds to John McCain’s recent “celebrity ad [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXYsw_ZDXg].” I don’t think this will hurt McCain on…

Tuesday reading

Three articles that I read this morning which deserve links. 1. Phase out freeze [http://winnipegsun.com/Business/2008/08/05/6351596-sun.html] – Manitoba is reviewing its tuition structure and all sides will be lobbying for various changes. (In the case of the CFS, they prefer no change) In the…

Almost on leave

As announced [http://www.joeycoleman.ca/blog/2008/07/burnout.html] on my personal blog [http://www.joeycoleman.ca/blog] last month, I will be taking the month of August off to rest and prepare for September. There will be the odd post here during the next few weeks.…

UofT’s bookstore is evil

I went to the University of Toronto bookstore yesterday afternoon to purchase a book. I called ahead and they put it aside for me at the second floor information desk. Not sure which floor was the second floor, I went to the first information desk I saw upon entering the…

Transportation Security

I travel by public transportation everywhere I go. Most of my trips are in the Greater Toronto Area and I take a GO Bus to the nearest train station to travel on the train into Toronto for the vast majority of those trips. When I go to Winnipeg, Ottawa, or…