Canada needs to improve aboriginal education to survive in global economy: Stewart-Patterson
Canada must improve the educational outcomes of aboriginals and new immigrants in order to prosper in the global economy, according to the executive vice-president of The Canadian Council of Chief Executives. “It is clear that Canada cannot rest on its laurels,” said David Stewart-Patterson in a keynote speech…
Aboriginal, first-generation students face barriers to higher education: Riddell
Although Canada has made progress in expanding the number of students pursuing post-secondary education, there are still major hurdles for many, says Norman Riddell, CEO of the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation. “That progress is uneven; some segments of our society do not have access,” he said in his…
Another day at York University
Today, the bad press is directed at the student newspaper The Excalibur by the American right-wing publication Frontpage Magazine.…
Flooding at UWO
Staff and Students at the University of Western Ontario may want to pack a canoe along with their textbooks. The Western Gazette reports the university is suffering from flooding problems in its low-lying parking lots. Some cars were surrounded by up to a foot of water and may…
CFS gives itself a blowjob: The Muse
Sheena Goodyear, current editor-in-chief of the Memorial University student newspaper The Muse, has strong words for the Canadian Federation of Students with her editorial “CFS gives itself a blowjob.” This suggests that the relatively amicable relations between the Canadian University Press and the CFS may be shaken up…
Someone give this guy an idiot award
According to MP Daryl Kramp, the federal government helped save First Nations Technical Institute. Cough, cough.Who’s Daryl Kramp anyways? He is backbench Conservative MP that nobody could pick out in a line-up. Actually, I doubt House of Commons security even know who he is. Regardless, Kramp must be…
Link dump
I read a lot of material. When I see something I want to blog about, I place it in a new tab in my browser. Here is a bunch of those links, some of which are old now: Rise of the prodigies: 50% increase in university students under…
This is a new argument
Things are getting interesting in Australia again. Two years into Voluntary Student Unionism and the new federal government is trying to figure out what to do in order to fulfill its promise to reverse VSU. The problem is that VSU is not widely unpopular nor is it widely…
Mud-slinging makes student politicians April’s fools
Amy Cox, deputy chairperson-elect of the National Graduate Caucus (CFS) and president of the Post-Graduate Student Society of McGill University, is the listed contact on a news release entitled “Graduate students not laughing with CASA” that went out Tuesday. The release, which accused CFS’ rival federal student group…
Human Rights Commission looking into Jewish holidays at York
An Ontario Human Rights Commission investigator has found that York University’s practice of cancelling classes on Jewish holidays is discriminatory. In a report to be considered by the Commission, the investigator concluded that York’s policy discriminates against other religions. The Toronto Starreported that professor David Noble considers the…