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$400,000 donated by former Board of Trustees member under investigation

Written on February 4, 2022. Posted in News.

David Sharpe, Law ’95, resigned from Queen’s Board of Trustees and as chair of the Queen’s Law Dean’s Council in 2021. Sharpe is currently under investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) for fraud in relation to his company Bridging Finance. According to the OSC, Bridging Finance...

Queen’s has ties to companies involved in human rights abuses. We should all care.

Written on January 10, 2020. Posted in Editorials.

Queen’s should cut its financial and research ties to companies involved in the ongoing human rights crisis in Western China, where an estimated 1.5 million Uyghur Muslims and other minorities are being arbitrarily detained in re-education camps. Currently, Queen’s invests in controversial tech companies...

Inside the AMS's push to divest

Written on September 27, 2019. Posted in News.

The AMS announced on Monday it had completely divested from holdings in companies that produce, transport, and dispense fossil fuels, becoming the first student government in Ontario to do so. “This is meant to serve as a message and send a message to our industries, to our leaders, to our university,...

Provost & VP Finance & Administration deliver public budget presentation

Written on October 13, 2017. Posted in News.

In what he called “the spirit of transparency,” Provost Benoit-Antoine Bacon delivered a public presentation about the University’s 2017-18 operating budget alongside Vice-President (Finance and Administration) Donna Janiec on Wednesday. The October 11 presentation reviewed the operating budget, which...

No rest until we divest

Written on October 29, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Jessica Buttery, ArtSci ’14 The CBC has reported that fossil fuel divestment is the biggest student movement in the U.S. in years. Hundreds of universities and colleges across the United States are campaigning to have their school’s divest from fossil-fuel companies in an effort to combat climate...

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$400,000 donated by former Board of Trustees member under investigation

Queen’s has ties to companies involved in human rights abuses. We should all care.

Inside the AMS's push to divest

Provost & VP Finance & Administration deliver public budget presentation

No rest until we divest

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