York continues to see high numbers of sexual assault York University was the site of a series of sexual assaults during the first week of July. On July 9, Toronto police arrested a 20-year-old male on three counts of sexual assault, two counts of assault and two counts of criminal harassment. Police...

Computing students in BC reject mandatory gym class Computing students at the British Columbia Institute of Technology have started to rebel against mandatory gym classes they are required to attend.  The students are required to participate in one weekly 8:30 a.m. gym class in order to obtain their...

Death of RMC student Second-year Royal Military College (RMC) cadet Mathieu LeClair was found dead Tuesday afternoon. LeClair, a native of Saint John, N.B., had been missing since Monday morning. RMC reported his absence to the military police and a search was conducted by the Ontario Provincial Police...

Student steals over $27K from University of Alberta A student from the University of Alberta embezzled $27,745 from the University’s undergraduate Business Students’ Association (BSA) over the past summer. The BSA discovered the money was missing from their bank account in August 2011. The 21-year-old...

Western’s HIV vaccine gets FDA approval The University of Western Ontario will begin testing the only HIV vaccine currently under development in Canada. Chil-Yong Kang works at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry as a researcher and professor. The vaccine developed by Kang and his...

Alcohol ban in residence An alcohol ban has been placed on a residence at St. Thomas University, a Catholic university located in Fredericton, NB. The ban took effect on Nov. 28 in co-ed residence Harrington Hall. Macleans on Campus reported on Nov. 29 that several incidents led to the ban, such...

Transit troubles Fredericton bus system Acadian Lines could go on strike as early as Nov. 21, according to St. Thomas University newspaper the Aquinian. A strike would limit students’ transportation options. Acadian Lines employees have been working without a contract since Dec. 31 of last year. Last...

Professor quits over parking On Aug. 29, professor Dan Middlemiss from Dalhousie University quit his job over a parking pass. Middlemiss, a political science professor, waited in line for over an hour before he was told by staff that he couldn’t buy a $260 annual parking permit that day because they...