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View ArticleNew report says CEGEP students should have language choice
Quebec shouldn’t restrict the ability of CEGEP students to choose whether they study in English or French, according to a new report by the government agency which advises the minister responsible for...
View ArticleConcordia to remove bottled water from campus vending machines
Concordia University has announced a plan to remove bottled water from vending machines on campus. The announcement comes just days after students at the university voted to ban bottled water on campus...
View ArticleQuebec moving ahead with university governance reform
The Quebec government appears to be moving ahead with legislation that will change the way every university in the province is run. Bill 38, currently before the National Assembly would standardize...
View ArticleConcordia student elections chief throws out vote results
Two weeks after ballot counting ended, the results of the Concordia Student Union election have been annulled. In an email sent late Tuesday night, chief electoral officer, Oliver Cohen, informed both...
View ArticleYoung Quebecers have a difficult choice ahead
The Parti Québécois held their big party congress over the weekend. This conference was particularly important because Quebec’s largest opposition party was deciding on the policies that they will be...
View ArticleMcGill issues warning after sexual assaults
McGill university has issued a safety warning after four young women were assaulted near the university’s downtown campus on Thursday night. The four victims, aged between 19 and 26, were walking alone...
View ArticleConcordia grad students sue Canadian Federation of Students
The Concordia Graduate Students’ Association has filed a lawsuit seeking to have the results of a referendum to leave the Canadian Federation of Students recognized. The referendum, held last spring,...
View ArticleStudent lobby group divided on extending language laws to CEGEPs
Quebec’s largest CEGEP student lobby group won’t be taking a stance on calls by the Parti Québécois for the province to extend language restrictions to the colleges. The 23 student associations of the...
View ArticleDisqualification reversed for Concordia student election winners
The team that won March’s Concordia Student Union election will take office after all. Two weeks ago, the chief electoral officer disqualified all the candidates from the two main slates, accusing them...
View ArticleNDP surge in Quebec could put students into office
When Thomas Mulcair became the second NDP candidate ever to be elected in Quebec, it had far more to do with his personal popularity than with his party’s. Mulciar had been the environment minister in...
View ArticleIs election of students another sign MPs are faceless?
When Parliament resumes, the NDP’s Quebec delegation will include some of the youngest MPs ever elected. On Monday night, Quebecers elected nine of the 11 university students running as NDP candidates...
View ArticleNew poll claims youth vote doubled, too bad it’s a poor survey
Youth voting rates doubled on May 2, when compared with the 2008 election, and more than half of those votes went to the NDP, according to a poll released yesterday by the Historica-Dominion Institute....
View ArticleDisqualifications reversed for all Concordia student election candidates
The post election kerfuffle at the Concordia Student Union, which saw almost everyone who ran be disqualified, appears to be over. On Wednesday, in one of their last actions, outgoing student council...
View ArticleSupreme Court should support Quebec religion and ethics class
The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments on Wednesday about whether the parents of school children in Quebec should have the right to pull their kids out of mandatory classes, if they disagree with...
View ArticleWho are the top 10 highest paid university admins in Quebec?
Late last week, there was controversy after it was revealed that a Université Laval vice-rector had received a 30 per cent pay increase without proper approval from the university’s board. Le Soleil...
View ArticleReport finds “culture of contempt” at Concordia
Concordia photo courtesy of Foxtongue on Flickr Concordia University needs to make major changes to how it’s run, according to a new report on the university’s governance. The report, released on June...
View ArticleHow much does your university’s president make?
Photo courtesy of Duckie Monster on Flickr Want to know how much the people running your university make? Is it $100,000? Would $300,000 shock you? Finding out administrators’ salaries is easy if you...
View ArticleTop 10 highest paid university officials in Canada
Here are the Top 10 highest paid university officials in Canada, ranked by their base salaries.* 1. David Johnson University of Waterloo president (now Governor General of Canada) — $1,041,881 2....
View ArticleSimon Fraser student society locks out employees
Photo courtesy of stephenrwalli on Flickr Labour disputes are common at Canadian universities. And when they happen, student unions often take the side of the workers. But at Simon Fraser, the dispute...
View ArticleStudent union’s human rights complaint against Montreal police
Photo courtesy of Yannick Gingras on Flickr A Quebec student lobby group claims that a Montreal police squad, which monitors anarchists and “marginal political groups,” has violated the province’s...
View ArticleQuebec government accepts McGill MBA tuition hike
Photo courtesy of bagriton on Flickr McGill University will be allowed to charge $32,500 this fall year for its MBA program after the university struck a deal with the Quebec government last week....
View Article10 secrets to university success
Photo courtesy of Symic on Flickr 10. Pick your major carefully. If your university doesn’t make you declare a major off the bat, don’t. Explore new things. Even if you must declare immediately,...
View ArticleConcordia library to start lending out iPads
Photo by Rego - d4u.hu on Flickr Concordia University’s library will lend out iPads to students starting this month. OpenFile Montreal reports that the library has acquired 25 of the tablet computers...
View ArticleAre young Canadians really better off than young Americans?
Occupy Winnipeg photo by marygkosta on Flickr Jamie Weinman has a post on Maclean’s.ca suggesting that student debt is fuelling the Occupy Everywhere protests. Weinman quotes this Washington Post...
View ArticleMcGill strike turns nasty
Photo by shahk on Flickr Two members of McGill University’s student government face a disciplinary hearing related to a rally in favour of striking support staff. One of them says he wasn’t even there....
View ArticleIs the U.S. tuition system more progressive?
Too much debt? Photo by Zach Klein on Flickr. Canadians are graduating with more debt than their American counterparts—despite the well-known higher sticker prices south of the border. In the U.S.,...
View ArticleWhy the student protests won’t move Charest
Protest photo by shahk on Flickr University students in Quebec continued their fight against annual $325 tuition increases on Nov. 10, protesting in large numbers by skipping classes. Classes were even...
View ArticleMcGill reaches tentative deal with workers
McGill University and representatives of striking support workers have accepted a tentative agreement put forward by a provincially-appointed conciliator, both sides announced on Wednesday. While both...
View ArticleMore students balance school with jobs
A long night at work. By star5112 on Flickr. More than half of full-time university students in Quebec work while attending school and more than 40 per cent of all undergraduates work more than 20...
View ArticleQuebec activists call for kidnappings, vandalism
Anti-tuition poster by AFELC at UQAM A student group is distancing itself from a pamphlet bearing its logo that called on students to commit acts of vandalism, kidnapping and sabotage to fight against...
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