NOV 7: THE WORLD LOSES LEONARD COHEN
Leonard Cohen died in his sleep earlier this month. The hugely influential Québécois musician, writer and artist whose work spanned 50 years passed away at 82.
NOV 16: THERE’S A NEW BIRD IN TOWN
Move over Canada goose, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society...
Calgary professor left in 2009 because of anti-Semitic student
Aaron Hughes, a former professor at the University of Calgary with a PhD in Islamic Studies, left in 2009 after the university wouldn’t remove a student spreading radical Muslim views from his classroom.
Hughes found a message written...
No campus group for men’s issues
Men’s issues won’t be getting their own official campus group at Ryerson University.
The proposed group’s status was denied by Ryerson’s student government earlier this month amid concerns that it has ties with alleged hate groups.
The students behind the group — Anjano...
Protests in Montreal
Protesters against rising tuition fees in Quebec continued to take to the streets over the Parti Québécois government’s proposed fee hike of three per cent, or $70 per year.
The government determined this amount by indexing the cost of living to tuition.
In response to the rise,...
Windsor and Dalhouse consider bike share program
The University of Windsor and Dalhousie University are joining the growing number of universities considering bike share programs.
Groups at both schools are considering programs similar to the BIXI bike program in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
The...
Three Canadian schools make Top 50 Under 50 list
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) made global headlines last month when they released their QS Top 50 Under 50, which ranks the top universities in the world established in the last 50 years.
QS was founded in 1990 as an education and career network providing...
LGBT rights in Manitoba protected by professor
A law professor at the University of Manitoba was one of 12 inductees into the Canadian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Human Rights Hall of Fame on July 30.
Karen Busby has researched laws dealing with sexuality and violence in the LGTB...