CFS Day of Action
The Canadian Federation of Students held their annual Day of Action protests last week. Living with the Internet, one can easily go to Flickr and search for pictures from the Day of Action. The following are ones that I found interesting and/or noteworthy: Titus Gregory in a CFS…
CUSA Election 07
Reading blogs and came across Mahdi Dokhanchi’s blog. He ran for the CUSA Executive last year. This year, he makes an extensive post on who he is voting for / supporting. Read it here: CUSA Election- 07: My take of CUSA election candidates…
My Reading for the First Part of the Week
Other than my school work….I will be reading the StatsCan Daily from last Thursday: http://www.statscan.ca/Daily/English/070208/d070208a.htm entitled Study: Why are youth from lower-income families less likely to attend university?Being from a low income background, then foster care, then self-supporting before University, I have a personal interest in this. Further,…
Preparing to Cover Today's SRA meeting
Well, I have decided that I feel like punishing myself by attending tonight’s SRA meeting. Should be the usual. Information period involving members of the Executive praising each other for the great jobs they are doing. Everyone outside of the clique rolling their eyes as they do so.…
W3's Advice for High-Level Politicians
You know, I cannot wait for him to land in the CUP National Bureau. This is just great. But, as a high-level politician in an education portfolio, may I offer one piece of advice: when taking conference calls from reporters and placing them on speaker phone, we accept…
Election Process Interference?
I have been able to confirm the following information: The Executive Board of the MSU had an emergency meeting on Monday where they had an in-camera session to discuss the MSU election and the potential of firing the CRO in the middle of the election process. The following…
UMSU "Election" About to Begin
Steve has the candidate list and the list of questions available on his site:http://www.utools.ca/journal/I doubt that I am going to have any time to cover the election myself.I will express my concerns seeing the candidate list. First of all, there is no contest. I cannot believe that no…
43% Voter Turnout at USSU
The University Saskatchewan Students’ Union held a U-Pass referendum this week. Voter turnout was 43%. Just goes to prove then when students are engaged and believe their vote matters, they vote. **Results from the USSU Referendum**re: U-PASS Held February 7 and 8, 2007: Side Votes Percent Yes 4624 …
Ken Norrie Parachutes
**Ken Norrie named Vice President (Research) of Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario ** TORONTO, Feb. 8 /CNW/ – James Downey, President of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, today announced the appointment of Ken Norrie as the Council’s first Vice President (Research), effective immediately. “I am…
MSU Election Results
The MSU Election Results are not yet available. I will not be able to get them up on my site. I have a mid-term today which is very soon. I have been noticing a higher than normal amount of traffic on my site today, I assume the election…