Military Recruitment on Canadian Campuses
Recently, many Canadian universities or their Student Associations/Unions have banned or been forced by student “protests” to effectively ban Canadian Forces Recruiters from their campuses. Recently, the York Federation of Students and York student groups forced the CF off-campus for the second time this term. http://www.excal.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=891&Itemid=2 I am…
Ontario Tuition Freeze to be lifted
Recently, the Premier of Ontario announced that the Ontario Tuition Freeze will be lifted this year. He did this after an infusion of an additional 6 Billion Dollars into Ontario Post-Secondary Education system. The Tuition Freeze was designed to create stability in PSE in Ontario after tuition more…
Facebook – Now at U of Manitoba
Facebook, the very popular University Social Network site has expanded to include the University of Manitoba (finally).Do not know what Facebook is? Read this Wired Article to find out more. According to Wikipedia, the site has over 2.5 million registered users worldwide now.Then get on over to Facebook…
Thousands of Dollars, lots of flown in CFS staff, rigging of the rules, removing the right of some students to vote and the CFS barely pulls it off
The results of the CFS referendum are in…. .after rigging the rules and way out spending the NO campaign, the CFS was only able to win by a slim margin. I would like to see how the CFS would do in a fair campaign where spending limits exist…
Cogent vs Level 3 – I want my Wiki!
This morning McMaster University posted the following to their website: Difficulty in reaching some internet sitesPosted on October 06, 2005 at 03:52 PM.Two major internet backbone suppliers, Cogent and Level 3 Communications, have abruptly stopped exchanging information with each other. Because McMaster has its primary internet connection with…
CFS rules more important than USSU rules at U of Sask… remove the right of certain students to vote
CFS in order to make sure that students had to be supervised by their full-time paid staff overruled U of Sask’s Students’ Union rules on voting. Basically, the CFS needs to make sure that they get the $170,000 dollars a year they are looking for from U of…
CFS cypersquats continued
Since I wrote on my blog about CFS’s practice of cypersquating, I have had tons of visits and given a few interviews to student newspaper across the country. I did not give an interview to The Sheaf at U of Sask. I was reading The Sheaf tonight and…
It's Coming ….. A New Sil Website
http://www.thesil.ca/…
It's Coming ….. A New Sil Website
http://www.thesil.ca/…
Randomness
I have not updated my website for a few days. I was seriously considering running in a Student Representative Assembly by-election in my faculty and I did not want to risk getting fined for pre-campaigning. After much thought and consideration, I have decided to not run for a…