You know your campaign is over
when you get hit with back-to-back J-Board rulings and the resulting negative publicity. (In this case, mixed publicity) One thing I note is the ability of the students’ union council and the students union executive to actually deal with the matter at hand in a transparent and accountable…
What a preventable tragedy
The fire in Hamilton Ontario which claim the lives of five people, included three children may not have been fatal if there were working fire alarms installed in the house. The fire occurred only two blocks from my home. Many people in the community are devastated by what…
Chris Drew
Toronto-Centre’s man of international mystery. (6th picture)…
Let’s talk transparency and accountability
Does anyone know where a regular student can find a copy of the agenda for this weekend’s Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance General Meeting? If a student cannot find it online, then it is not transparent. A student having to come into their student union office is not transparency…
The election blogs
I am happy to note that student elections are getting good coverage this year by student journalists. A few of them are running election blogs. The leading blog this year definitely goes to Wassim Garzouzi for his coverage of both the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa…
The great advertising heist
York University’s marketing department has had just about enough of the Globe and Mail stealing their signature advertising concept, according to the Financial Post. The Post reports that the two parties are negotiating over what York is arguing is the theft of their advertising strategy. The ads in…
Campus Pick: How to cover a student election
*Maclean’s On Campus *gives props to Wassim Garzouzi for probably the best student union election coverage in the country. Garzouzi has been single-handedly running a daily (sometimes hourly) blog detailing every aspect of the elections for the student union at the University of Ottawa. Garzouzi has provided an…
Kraft Dinner
is a good way to make your point.…
You can’t say that!
Free speech is again the centre of controversy at York University after the students’ union canceled an on-campus abortion debate last week only four hours before the event was scheduled to commence. This has some students accusing the York Federation of Students of quashing open dialogue around issues…
Another chapter for one of SFU’s most (in)famous alumni
Although this has very little to do with post-secondary education, it’s hilarious nonetheless. Right-wing pundit Rachel Marsden — an SFU alumnus — has yet another one of her love-life scandals in the newspapers. She first became known when she accused a SFU swimming coach of sexual harassment in…