Re-Thinking Public Post-Secondary Education Funding
The recent students’ movement in Quebec formed in response to the provincial government’s plan to raise tuition fees has sparked a much needed debate on how we should fund post-secondary education. Given that my own opinion on the matter has shifted substantially since I graduated almost ten years ago, I’d like to add my voice [...]
Canada has been complicit with torture overseas and within its own borders, the secretary general of Amnesty International Canada says. Alex Neve was on campus to give his talk, “Clean hands? Canadian complicity in torture abroad,” as part of a torture symposium held last Wednesday and Thursday at St. Thomas University. The St. Andrew’s native [...]
Continue reading …It’s 8 p.m. and music is blasting as Vanessa and her friends get dressed for the night. They dance to songs from dance hall artists, like Vybz Kartel and Movado, while doing their hair and make-up and drinking. They head to the club around 11 p.m. in the outfits they’d planned from days before, dressed [...]
Continue reading …With the Penn State football scandal hanging over the world of elite sports, many are decrying the prominence put on athletics. At numerous institutions sport is raised high above the level playing field most mortals must be content with. Athletes are given special privileges on campuses and so, it seems, are coaches. This, however, is [...]
Continue reading …CUPW members occupy MP’s office to protest Canada Post back-to-work legislation
June 22, 2011 Comments Off
Inside Conservative MP Keith Ashfield’s Fredericton constituency office, the temperature rose quickly with body heat and shouts of “Heil Harper!” Tuesday evening. About 40 people, mostly from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, gathered outside the office demanding to speak with the MP about the upcoming vote on back-to-work legislation for Canada Post employees. Office [...]
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More than 200 people gathered in Officer’s Square in downtown Fredericton on a chilly Saturday afternoon to send politicians a message: young people plan on voting in the May 2 federal election. Similar vote mobs have or will be held in more than 30 cities and campuses across the country. The mobs started after comedian [...]
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John Solak comes home with with two friends in tow. They’re loaded down with snacks and drinks from the convenience store around the corner. Energy to keep them alert well into the night. With a short ‘Hey’ to whoever’s sitting in the living room, he heads straight for the door to the basement, and towards [...]
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Andrew Hawley – The Fulcrum – The dramatic disparity between Canadian and American university sports BATON ROUGE, La. (CUP) — As I walked toward the centre of the Louisiana State University (LSU) campus in February, a mammoth building came into view, commanding all my attention. This was Tiger Stadium, home of the LSU Tigers football [...]
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Is The Young and the Restless making you feel old and sleepy? Not enough melodrama in Days of our Lives? Then you should try paying attention to Canadian politics. Except for the sex, alien abductions, and attractive young people, it might as well be a soap opera. Consider the following. Michael Ignatieff, the suave man-of-the-world, [...]
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