ON CAMPUS Daily update – 23 Jan 08
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT *MACLEAN’S *ONLINE IN THE NEWS Three University students killed in Ottawa crash Story not reposted as copyright for it belongs to *The Canadian Press *and I do my best to respect copyright. You can read this section on Macleans.ca. St. Thomas University faculty union ordered…
Oshawa moves closer to removing students near university
The city of Oshawa has moved one step closer to enacting a controversial housing bylaw that would leave hundreds of students without a place to live. On Monday the city’s development services committee approved the bylaw for city council consideration. The new regulations would limit the number of…
Liveblogging the Oshawa meeting
21/01/2008 18:53:49 – at the meeting. Finally got here after getting stuck on a GO Train that was 30 minutes late. 21/01/2008 18:54:20 – the permanent residents are go in force tonight. They are unhappy. 21/01/2008 19:00:44 – applauses are not allowed. Heaven forbid a politician feel some…
Liveblogging the Oshawa meeting – 21 Jan 08
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT MACLEAN’S ONLINE 21/01/2008 18:53:49 – at the meeting. Finally got here after getting stuck on a GO Train that was 30 minutes late. 21/01/2008 18:54:20 – the permanent residents are go in force tonight. They are unhappy. 21/01/2008 19:00:44 – applauses are not allowed. Heaven…
Back to Oshawa
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT MACLEAN’S ONLINE While, it is back to the ‘Shawa for me today. I will be covering tonight’s city committee meeting where they are planning to redo the proposed student housing bylaw. (Disclaimer: for legal reasons, they don’t actually call it that and they protest that…
Oshawa Council backs down on controversial housing bylaw
The City of Oshawa backed down on a controversial proposed housing bylaw when over 450 people came out to a public hearing Monday. The proposed bylaw was widely considered to be an effort to curtail the student rental market in the neighbourhood surrounding Durham College and the University…
Oshawa may charge student-area landlords up to $1000 annual fee
“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 on student housing this fall and now a proposed new bylaw. “All three…
The new blog
Welcome to the improved Uniblogs, specifically this blog. The blogs are now powered using WordPress, meaning that I will be able to quickly upload images, format posts, and will be writing more often.…
ON CAMPUS Daily update – 06 Nov 07
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT *MACLEAN’S *ONLINE Another looming faculty strike Part-time faculty at Concordia are threatening strike action, according to the student paper The Link. After six years without a contract part-time faculty at Concordia university have voted 97 per cent in favour of strike action. The faculty demands…
City raids student houses in Oshawa
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…