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Distinguished speaker Cindy Blackstock discusses inequalities for First Nations children

Written on March 29, 2019. Posted in News.

In 1999, Jordan River Anderson of Norway Cree House Nation was born in a Manitoba hospital. Five years later, he slipped into a coma and died there. On Mar. 28, Dr. Cindy Blackstock—member of the Gitksan First Nation and Executive Director of Canada’s First Nations Child and Family Caring Society—spoke...

QUCA chooses to endorse Maxime Bernier for Conservative leadership

Written on April 6, 2017. Posted in News.

“Kevin O’Leary is saying ‘I will be able to beat Justin Trudeau’, but it could be tough for him to have the support of Quebecers — he can’t understand them and he can’t speak to them,” Conservative Party leadership candidate Maxime Bernier said amid laughter in a full room in Macdonald...

At Conservative candidate events, Kellie Leitch met with protests while Lisa Raitt sees small turnout

Written on March 24, 2017. Posted in News.

With the Conservative Party leadership race ongoing, Queen’s University Conservative Association (QUCA) hosted two more candidates this week — following Kevin O’Leary and Michael Chong in past weeks — that sparked more protests on campus. On Monday, a handful of student protestors gathered outside...

Kevin O’Leary draws crowd to Grant Hall

Written on March 17, 2017. Posted in News.

“Here’s my plan. I’m going to win this leadership race and then I’m going to shine the light of transparency and accountability on Justin Trudeau for the next two years, and make his life a living hell,” Conservative Party leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary declared to a crowd of approximately 1,000...

Big Data speaker series kicks off in Goodes Hall

Written on October 6, 2016. Posted in News.

On Tuesday evening, to kick off Queen’s 175th speaker series, IBM data analytics VP Paul Zikopoulos gave an in-depth presentation at Goodes Hall on the often-misunderstood use of ‘big data’. Big data, he explained to the crowd, consists of large data sets that can be analyzed computationally to reveal...

Open mic opens minds to diversity

Written on July 29, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

I didn’t know what to expect when I walked into the Sleepless Goat Café for my first POCTALK event on July 18. POCTALK, otherwise known as a “People of Colour” Talk, is an open-mic series aiming to provide a safe place to people of colour, mixed race and Indigenous background to share their lives,...

Sleeping Funny in Stauffer

Written on February 7, 2014. Posted in Arts.

To write effectively, you first have to be bad in order to be good. That was Miranda Hill’s advice to the small gathering at Stauffer Library when she visited Queen’s on Monday as part of the Alumni Review’s “Write Thinking” speaker series. Acclaimed for her spectacular collection of short fiction...

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Distinguished speaker Cindy Blackstock discusses inequalities for First Nations children

QUCA chooses to endorse Maxime Bernier for Conservative leadership

At Conservative candidate events, Kellie Leitch met with protests while Lisa Raitt sees small turnout

Kevin O’Leary draws crowd to Grant Hall

Big Data speaker series kicks off in Goodes Hall

Open mic opens minds to diversity

Sleeping Funny in Stauffer

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