Students at the University College of Fraser Valley in British Columbia have decided to join the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. Students voted for membership in CASA during a week long referendum with 74 per cent of students voting in favour of membership. CASA is the second largest national student…
John Milloy, Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities continues his tour of Ontario universities and colleges announcing projects receiving government funding. The latest announce is $33.5 million for Brock University’s new Health and Biosciences Research Complex. “The Niagara Health and Biosciences Research Complex along with the…
The student association representing students at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College is encouraging students to file human rights complaints against the City of Oshawa after a city committee passed a bylaw which will restrict student housing in the area surrounding the UOIT/DC campus. The…
I am checking out the Canadian International Auto Show this morning. Centennial College is holding a competition for high school students which I am going to take photographs of. I notice that a lot of post-secondary institutions are present with kiosks. I may grab some pictures of those has well.…
Wassim Garzouzi, editor in chief of the French language student newspaper at SFUO, is covering the SFUO election today on his newly created blog: http://sfuo.blogspot.com He tells me "There might be a few typos, but I will keep updating it throughout the day and more importantly, throughout…
This week we honour a misunderstood group of students on our campuses: the engineers. With their weird rituals, unique communication "skillz", love of BEvERages, and STUNenTS (to say nothing of their smell) it is easy to see why they are seen as different by the rest of the student body.…
It has come to my attention that you are about to increase your efforts to overthrown the humans who are running the University of Alberta Students’ Union. I consider myself to be a forward-thinking individual. I also consider myself to have good self-preservation instincts. To this end, I recognize that…
Mike Powell, who hosts a radio show on the Carleton student radio station, had two of the three CUSA presidential candidates in studio this week. He posted the audio on his blog [http://www.mikepowell.ca/general/2008/02/12/the-cusa-presidential-candidates-speak/] .…