Canada in brief: Jan. 13, 2010
No new stimulus plan for upcoming budget OTTAWA – According to Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a press conference on Jan 11, a new stimulus plan will not be introduced with...
No new stimulus plan for upcoming budget OTTAWA – According to Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a press conference on Jan 11, a new stimulus plan will not be introduced with...
OTTAWA (CUP) – At 27, Niki Ashton is the youngest female member of Parliament sitting in Canada’s House of Commons The post-secondary education and youth critic for the NDP...
Ontario PSE system broken: book TORONTO (CUP) – Academic Transformation, a new book by four Ontario university professors, accuses the province of failing students and calls...
On Dec 30, the Governor General Michaëlle Jean, acting on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, prorogued parliament until early March The government cited the need to...
Shenanigans at Queen’s Park On Nov 30, Bill Murdoch, MPP for Bruce-Grey Owen Sound, began a protest in the legislature He wanted further public hearings regarding the proposed...
University student associations wanting to petition to create or terminate their membership with the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) will have to meet tougher regulations...
From Nov 30 to Dec 2, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) lobbied over 60 members of provincial parliament on key issues surrounding post-secondary education Kory...
VICTORIA (CUP) – Corporate Canada is still mostly a man's world In 2007, a Catalyst Census survey found that women held only 13 per cent of board positions in Canada's 500...
Of the over 80 student groups represented by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), 13 are petitioning to host referendums on their campuses to question the continuation of...
Much of CASA survey cost came from legal settlement HALIFAX (CUP) – Close to $30,000 being put towards a survey of Canadian students by the Canadian Alliance of Student...