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University Council election season in full swing

Written on June 9, 2021. Posted in News.

Queen’s alumni are eligible to vote in the ongoing University Council elections. Voting to fill 10 University Councillor positions opened on Jun. 1. Alumni may vote via email ballot until Jun. 15 at 9 a.m. The University Council works directly in a manner that promotes Queen’s wellbeing and...

COMPSA vice-president (operations) candidate Shreyansh Anand talks entrepreneurship

Written on January 26, 2019. Posted in Elections, News.

Shreyansh Anand, CompSci ’21, is pushing to fill the gaps in the computing experience at Queen’s, starting with mentors and entrepreneurship. The second-year biomedical computing student, running for vice-president (operations), is currently the start-up coordinator on the COMPSA Executive—a position...

Councillor Stroud walks out of all-candidates meeting

Written on October 19, 2018. Posted in City Council, News.

Sydenham Councillor Peter Stroud left the Sydenham District all-candidate’s debate on Sunday after a resident raised issues he felt personally attacked him. Lindsey Foster, a Sydenham resident, planned to ask about inclusivity in the district, but began by addressing Stroud’s “ability to respond to...

AMS commissioner elected executive member of Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance

Written on May 28, 2018. Posted in News.

On May 17, Queen’s secured an executive position in the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA). Julia Göllner, ArtSci ‘19 and current AMS academic affairs commissioner (AAC), was elected OUSA’s vice-president of administration and human resources (VPAHR) over her opponent, a steering committee...

Gary Bennett sits down with The Journal

Written on April 5, 2018. Posted in News.

Gary Bennett is the PC candidate for Kingston and the Islands. How will your campaign engage with students? In terms of engaging with students, if there is an opportunity to be on campus from time to time, I’ll certainly make an effort to make myself available to any student organization. I’ve been...

COMPSA executive debate recap

Written on January 26, 2018. Posted in News.

The Computing Students’ Association Executive debates on Monday night prompted discussions about the faculty society’s lack of visibility among other faculty societies. The debates were relatively uneventful with the only contested position being Vice-President (University Affairs). The event was...

Executive Team Sagal & Alissa aiming for a unified ASUS

Written on January 26, 2018. Posted in News.

This year’s ASUS election sees a pair of third year students looking to draw on extensive student government and leadership experience in their bid for ASUS executive. Sagal Sharma and Alissa Enns, both ArtSci ’19, characterized themselves as the “most qualified team” in this year’s ASUS executive...

Executive candidates debate, members vote on motions regarding accountability and accessibility

Written on February 16, 2017. Posted in News.

The Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) held their Winter General Meeting in Mac-Corry this Wednesday evening, at which all six uncontested executive candidates running in the upcoming election had a chance to discuss their platforms. Motion to create Executive Oversight Committee Former...

For AMS Speaker policy changes, timing is everything

Written on January 13, 2017. Posted in Editorials.

A recent push to change the AMS Speaker policy just before the AMS election season seems too hasty. At AMS Assembly on Dec 1, a motion arose to amend the AMS constitution, which before had prohibited the Assembly Speaker from running for AMS executive in the January election. The proposed amendment...

AMS Assembly debates making Queen’s campus smoke-free

Written on October 21, 2016. Posted in News.

Kicking off this Wednesday’s AMS Assembly in Wallace Hall, guest speaker Swati Naidu from the Ontario Public Health Unit began with an address on the move towards making Queen’s a smoke-free campus. Naidu, along with two of her colleagues from the Department of Medicine and Department of Public Health,...

Voter turnout isn’t about the age, it’s about the demographic

Written on September 27, 2016. Posted in Editorials.

Pushing for the voting age to be lowered to 16 misses the bigger picture of voter representation — or rather, who’s missing from the picture. Inspired by cases of high youth voter turnout during the Scottish referendum and in Britain’s vote to leave the EU, many argue that if Canadian 16-year-olds...

SGPS debate sees little contention

Written on February 11, 2016. Posted in News.

With five of the six positions uncontested, this year’s graduate society all-candidates’ debate saw more cohesion than contention. Candidates instead used the opportunity to discuss issues facing graduate students — most of which they agreed on. The Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS)...

Journal Roundtable: Federal Election

Written on October 23, 2015. Posted in Editorials.

Gerretsen may surprise By Ramna Safeer After the thick wave of red that swept over Canada on the night of the 19th — a turn I don’t think even the Liberals predicted — we might be surprised by Kingston MP-elect Liberal Mark Gerretsen’s fresh approach to student issues. Gerretsen’s term as Kingston’s...

Talking down doesn’t turnout voters

Written on October 16, 2015. Posted in Editorials.

The tattooed hooligan stereotype is dead. Now let’s put it to bed. A recent article in The Kingston Whig-Standard entitled “A how-to guide to voting for Tattooed Millennials” made us collectively scratch our heads at its portrayal of voting as an event similar to getting a tattoo. According to the...

Barbaric practices mirrored

Written on October 16, 2015. Posted in Editorials.

Timing and wording is everything in identity politics. To help enforce Canada’s Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, the Conservatives have proposed an RCMP tip line for reporting incidences of “barbaric cultural practices.” This Act establishes legal protection for non-consenting adults...

A guide to voting in the federal election

Written on October 16, 2015. Posted in Lifestyle.

They say the first time’s always special. Voting in your first federal election can be nerve-racking, and many young voters in Canada inevitably question whether their vote will make a difference. But no matter what riding you live in, every vote counts. If you’re 18 and a Canadian citizen, you can...

Students develop app to keep peers politically informed

Written on October 8, 2015. Posted in News.

Politips, a mobile application dreamt up by Queen’s student Pamela Simpson, came out victorious at Tuesday’s Dragon’s Den competition. The event, run by the Queen’s Entrepreneurial Competition (QEC), is a 30-second business pitch competition. Winners receive a prize of $200. Politips condenses each...

As Mulcair steps right, Trudeau steers left

Written on September 10, 2015. Posted in Lifestyle.

Challenging the status quo of being Canada’s left, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair looks as though he’s shaping his party to be a more centrist option for voters in the 2015 federal election. As a traditionally left party, a centrist NDP is unconventional. Before Jack Layton ignited the Orange Wave in...

Video Talking Heads: Anonymous Comments Online

Written on January 27, 2015. Posted in Opinions.

CBW is seeking student support

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Opinions.

During each year’s AMS executive election campaign period, the Journal runs an opinion piece written by the campaign manager of each candidate team. On Jan. 15, Team CBW was elected by acclamation to be the next AMS executive. An unusual and unprecedented situation nobody anticipated, election by...

Two to face off in trustee race

Written on January 16, 2015. Posted in News.

Mike Blair and Jennifer Li were named as candidates on the 2015 Undergraduate Student Trustee ballot at AMS Assembly Thursday evening. The Undergraduate Student Trustee, a position currently held by Andrew Aulthouse, sits on the Queen’s Board of Trustees for two years with the purpose of bringing...

Team CBW acclaimed as incoming AMS executive

Written on January 15, 2015. Posted in News.

The AMS has acclaimed Team CBW — Kanivanan Chinniah, Kyle Beaudry and Catherine Wright — as the incoming 2015-16 executive team. Chinniah will serve as President, and Beaudry and Wright as vice-president of operations and vice-president of university affairs, respectively. CBW was the only team to...

QJ Politics: A mandatory vote

Written on October 31, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

This week’s performance in the Kingston municipal election was, in a word, abysmal. This trend of low voter turnout is hardly related to whom we elect to City Hall. Canada’s voter turnout federally went from a healthy 75 per cent in the 1960s to an underwhelming 60 per cent at the last federal election...

Bryan Paterson elected Kingston’s new mayor

Written on October 28, 2014. Posted in News.

Kingston’s next mayor is Bryan Paterson. The announcement was made Monday night after six mayoral candidates declared nearly three months ago. Paterson, who currently represents Trillium District on City Council, won with 38.15 per cent of the vote — 13,577 total ballots. He faced two other city councillors,...

Talking Heads: Are you registered to vote in Monday's election?

Written on October 24, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Are you registered to vote in Monday’s election?

Students should cast their vote carefully

Written on October 22, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Sergio Sismondo and Jamie Swift Gerrymandering means rearranging electoral boundaries so that your team gains an advantage. It’s a time-honoured electoral tactic that came to Kingston last year when seven local politicians tried to redraw electoral district boundaries. It’s this attempt that students...

Student-led protest blazes political trail

Written on October 8, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Susanne Lee, Comm ’15 Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Hong Kong to demand that residents of the region be able to choose their leader for the upcoming 2017 election — for which China has said they’ll be determining the candidates. The people within Hong Kong are entitled to a...

QJPolitics: Surprise election results

Written on June 24, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

Premier Kathleen Wynne survived a job performance review on June 12, when she led the Ontario Liberal Party (OLP) to victory. The surprise of the night, even for the OLP, was her guaranteed employment for the next five years. Wynne’s party won a majority of the seats in the legislature much to the...

Kingston and the Islands remains a red riding

Written on June 24, 2014. Posted in News.

After a month and a half of campaigning, Liberal candidate Sophie Kiwala has become the first new MPP for Kingston and the Islands in 19 years. According to unofficial results from Elections Ontario, Kiwala won with 20,833 votes, or approximately 41 per cent. NDP candidate Mary Rita Holland came in...

Education ignored

Written on June 24, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Let’s face it — politics in Ontario isn’t sexy. While some premiers in Canada, such as Brad Wall in Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island’s Robert Ghiz, are extremely popular in their respective provinces, it seems most Ontarians weren’t enthusiastic about the candidates they had to choose from this...

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