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…
Engineer, teach thyself
It travels faster than the speed limit on any Canadian highway, can drive coast-to-coast without stopping for gas, often gets mistaken for a UFO, and does all of this on less power than it takes to operate a toaster. It is the University of Waterloo’s solar-powered car, the…
Is there really a looming university space crunch in Toronto?
With a provincial election in Ontario just around the corner, now is an ideal time to lobby politicians. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the pages of The Globe and Mail and *Toronto Star *in their articles about the looming space crunch at Toronto universities. The…
How can I save money on textbooks?
Joey Coleman takes his textbook list on a hunt for the cheapest prices You can tell it’s almost September because of the back-to-school sale signs that are beginning to pop-up. And while the sales may mean cheap pencils to some people, for university students, they mean getting gouged…
New security legislation will cost universities thousands
New private security measures recently enacted by the Ontario government may cost colleges and universities thousands of dollars. The legislation—designed to ensure security guards at retail stores, banks, and so on are properly trained—was not intended to apply specifically to educational institutions. However, the law will require special…
How do I manage my personal finances?
For many students April is not only the season of all-night studying, but also of scraping together pennies to afford food and other necessities for those last few weeks before returning to the financial haven of a summer job. How can your personal financial choices during the year…