“Nothing short of getting rid of all students will appease local residents,” John Gray, mayor of Oshawa, said Friday. His city is dealing with town-and-gown conflicts between students and residents that culminated in police raids [http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20071031_184153_8504&source=srch] on student housing…
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ORIGINALLY POSTED [http://www.macleans.ca/education/universities/article.jsp?content=20071106_165820_7412] AT *MACLEAN’S *ONLINE Another looming faculty strike Part-time faculty at Concordia are threatening strike action, according [http://thelink.concordia.ca/view.php?aid=40072] to the student paper The Link. After six years without a…
Imagine how you would feel if you woke up from a nap to find nine unexpected, uniformed people in your bedroom searching through your personal belongings. This is the challenge posed by Katherine McFadden, a scenario that closely resembles the experience of her daughter—a first-year student at Durham College…
It travels faster than the speed limit on any Canadian highway, can drive coast-to-coast without stopping for gas, often gets mistaken for a UFO, and does all of this on less power than it takes to operate a toaster. It is the University of Waterloo’s solar-powered car, the Midnight…
With a provincial election in Ontario just around the corner, now is an ideal time to lobby politicians. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the pages of The Globe and Mail [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070730.wuniversities30/BNStory/National/home] and *Toronto Star * [http://www.…
Joey Coleman takes his textbook list on a hunt for the cheapest prices You can tell it’s almost September because of the back-to-school sale signs that are beginning to pop-up. And while the sales may mean cheap pencils to some people, for university students, they mean getting gouged with…
New private security measures recently enacted by the Ontario government may cost colleges and universities thousands of dollars. The legislation—designed to ensure security guards at retail stores, banks, and so on are properly trained—was not intended to apply specifically to educational institutions. However, the law will require special…