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OUSA discusses lobbying
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Last weekend the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) held their general assembly at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. The two Waterloo schools hosted the other member universities – which include Brock, Queens, McMaster, Western and Windsor – to discuss the advocacy group’s policies and future lobbying campaigns. John Milloy, Ontario’s minister of…
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Bringing climate change to government
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On Oct. 24, the International Day of Climate Action “fill the hill” campaign will be taking over Parliament Hill, in Ottawa from 12 to 3:30 p.m. It is believed that this year’s Climate Day (C-Day) will be the largest climate action to ever take place on Canadian soil in history. Dozens of buses from many…
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Facebook refuses to remove deceased woman’s account
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NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CUP) – When a relative passes away, the last thing you would expect or want to see is that person suddenly updating their Facebook status. Unfortunately, this was the case for a girl in Nova Scotia, whose mother’s account had been hijacked on the popular social networking site. Shelby Breimer, a 15-year-old…
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Controversial story has Dawson paper worried about censorship
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MONTREAL (CUP) – Student newspaper editors at Dawson College say they’re worried about censorship after they published a critical article about a student union staff member. The article, which ran in the Oct. 1 issue of the Plant, the college’s student newspaper, accused the executive director of the Dawson Student Union (DSU), Margo Dunnet, of…
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Tuition soars nationally
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At an average of $5,951 Ontario students pay the highest for a post-secondary education, compared to any of their Canadian peers. In 2009-10, annual tuition fees have increased 3.6 per cent nationally. According to Statistics Canada’s study released yesterday, Ontario surpassed Nova Scotia, who previously had the top rank. Alexi White, executive director for the…
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Ontario joins in on HST
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On July 1, 2010, consumers in Ontario and British Columbia will begin paying one tax of 13 per cent on goods and services, the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). HST is a combination of the 8 per cent Provincial Sales Tax (PST) and the 5 per cent Goods and Service Tax (GST), and it is designed…
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Feds announce funding at WLU
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On Friday Oct. 16 James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, visited Wilfrid Laurier University to announce three financial government investments that will given to WLU Press and the Association of Canadian Publishers. The government has renewed for the next five years it’s $39.5 million investment to the Book Publishing Industry Development Program,…
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Clinton accepts McGill degree
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MONTREAL (CUP) – Former United States president Bill Clinton received an honorary doctorate from McGill University last week for “a lifetime of outstanding leadership.” The Oct. 16 ceremony was held at Montreal’s Centre Mont-Royal as part of the university’s inaugural Leadership Summit. Clinton spoke to the crowd after receiving the honorary doctorate. “I am profoundly…
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May goes coast to coast
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FREDERICTON (CUP) – Moving from the Maritimes to Sidney, B.C. was the hardest thing Elizabeth May has ever had to do. The Green Party of Canada leader moved to the Saanich-Gulf Islands riding this past month, where she will reattempt what she tried to do in the last election: unseat a long-standing Conservative candidate. “Once…
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Google Street View now in select Canadian cities
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After getting tired of looking at a couple holding hands walking down University Avenue across the street from Wilfrid Laurier University, one can easily turn to five men sitting on the patio of The Silver Spur in Uptown Waterloo. Within seconds, similar actions can be seen taking place in downtown Halifax or Vancouver. On Oct.…
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