Tag: Provincial

Generation Screwed debt clock tours Ontario universities

Students walking past the corner of University Ave. and Union St. on Tuesday morning were faced with some daunting numbers, and a grim perspective on our generation’s financial future. Generation Screwed (GS) is the largest non-partisan student movement in Canada, according to Craig Draeger, Queen’s...

Continue reading

Premier backlash

When Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty visited Kingston on Friday, he was greeted by a group of a dozen or so teachers protesting against Bill 115. The rally, held by teachers representing the Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario (ETFO), occurred during a lunch event McGuinty held at the Holiday...

Continue reading

Horwath talks tuition, student employment

The Ontario NDP is committed to solving student issues in the province, says the president of the Queen’s NDP branch. Billy Cheng, head of the campus group, was amongst two dozen students and local NDP staff that attended a one-hour talk on Friday given by Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath at Common...

Continue reading

Lost in alienation

Over the course of last weekend, Brampton-West Progressive Conservative candidate Ben Shenouda circulated a flyer that critics have called homophobic and offensive. An Oct. 4 Globe and Mail article reported the poster featured quotes from news articles on the scrapped Liberal sex education plan for...

Continue reading

Mary Rita Holland by a hair

New Democrat Mary Rita Holland would make the most effective Member of Provincial Parliament for Kingston and the Islands. Though she lacks the years of experience of Liberal incumbent John Gerretsen, Holland’s approachability and knowledge of student issues make her a stand out. With nine votes of...

Continue reading

The Journal, Queen's University - Since 1873




© All rights reserved. | Powered by Digital Concepts

Back to Top
Skip to content