McMaster students try to recover from devastating residence fire
Update: The University has found housing for the displaced students. 554 students who lived in McMaster University’s Brandon Hall are scrambling to collect the pieces and find new housing arrangements as they learn the full extend of the damage to their residence building. Damage to the building is…
Oshawa’s anti-student housing bylaw: complete failure
newsdurhamregion.com ran a story today on the failure of Oshawa’s controversial anti-student housing bylaw. As predicted, the bylaw has created a student housing crisis with only 11 houses near the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College being approved by the city. The city received 201…
Redeemer University president to leave post in two years
The president of Ontario’s Redeemer University, one of the provinces private institutions, will be retiring after more than a decade as president of the institution. Justin Cooper became president of Redeemer in 1994 and lead the campaign to gain university status for the institution in 1998. Redeemer has…
Update I: Fire at McMaster University’s Brandon Hall
McMaster University will be holding a information session for parents and students at 7pm tonight. I will be attending. For those parents and students that cannot attend the session, McMaster will be streaming the session live over the Internet. More information and streaming link here. During the past…
Queen’s AMS getting back into the fed lobby game?
The Queen’s Journalreports that Queen’s undergraduate student union, the Alma Mater Society, is considering membership in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA). If the AMS decides to join, they will be one of at least two unions to join this year. The McMaster Students Union will likely…
University of New Brunswick investigating student for alleged hate site
The University of New Brunswick is investigating allegations that a law student has spread hate literature online, according to a report by the CBC. The only question the university should be asking is if the student used university resources (internet access) to post the materials. What a student…
Fire at McMaster University
This post was written Saturday October 18, 2008. McMaster University continues to update parents and students on their news page at http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca There was a fire at Hamilton’s McMaster University overnight. There were no serious injuries and the damage is being assessed. The fire occurred in the university’s…
The latest from The War on Fun
The War on Fun continues as cowardly university administrators decide anything truly fun is too dangerous for young adults. Earlier this fall, I noted the University of Iowa’s attack on its traditional corn eating contest. Now, Quinnipec University is leading on the latest front and banning all eating…
Brandon U strike ends
A two-and-a-half week faculty strike at Manitoba’s Brandon University ended yesterday evening and students will be returning to classes Friday after the university and its faculty association reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday. Neither side is releasing details of the agreement pending ratification. According to the union, the…
Record size first-year class at Ontario Colleges
First-year enrolment at Ontario’s 24 public colleges increased 5.6 per cent this September compared to overall enrolment at the beginning of the 2007 academic year. The total number of first-year students at Ontario’s colleges is now 95,805. “Students clearly recognize the tremendous value of the education and training…