I’m confused
During my tour of the University of Western Ontario, I noticed a few campaign posters for Rick Telfer. Telfer is running for President of the University of Western Ontario Society of Graduate Students. I was initially confused cause I thought he was Executive Director of the University of Toronto…
Doing the campus tour thing
I’m taking my 16-year old cousin for a tour of the University of Western Ontario today. It looks like it will be the unofficial kind, Western requires that one "pre-books" for tours and silly me, I did not realize this until Monday when the tours for Friday were…
UAlberta SU joins CASA
Steven Dollansky, VP External of the University of Alberta Students’ Union, posts that the UASU is joining the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. I predicted this back in the fall and predict that the McMaster Students Union will be joining sometime this year.…
Did you know?
That the UBC Radical Beer Faction has a VP Damage Control?…
The new Jerema
Looks like UMSU will be calling for this guy to resign as a student in next week’s Toban.…
CRO’s take note
The Dalhousie Student Union elections office went out and created short "intro commercials" for the election candidates. Most of the candidate statements are pretty much the same as last year and what you hear at any campus. The elections office has no control over the candidates themselves, so…
More politics
I’m having a bit of a political streak this week, Spitzer combined with writing papers means I’m becoming a political junkie again. Next week, if you are in Toronto and have $25+GST to drop, you can listen to Coyne, a bunch of people I don’t know, and Stephen…
Mr. Clean caught being dirty
New York Governor Eliot "Mr. Clean" Spitzer is embroiled in a sex scandal which will likely finish his political career. One of my hobbies last winter was following New York state politics, I even listened live to Spitzer’s swearing in as Governor on WNYC. Spitzer was the great…
Dion finally puts Harper into check and…
So, Dion and his merry gang of abstainers finally voted for something in the house the other day and decided to give $900-million in support for RESPs. Great, more money to support future students, or was it really so great? Almost immediately, people started pointing out that the…
No jPhone yet
I went up to the FIDO store in Hamilton and while they had the phone in stock, they could not sell it to me because of a computer glitch. I could’ve purchased any other phone in the store but the one I wanted. I asked if I could…