Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the February referendum fast approaching, students voice what they expect out of their next student union—regardless of who wins.
Opinions
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s something all of us have been thinking recently, but not wanting to say out loud, out of fear of being labelled as “capitalist scum” by those really cool Marxists in your political thought class. But hear me out, maybe there’s a lot more in dissolving the union than what meets the eye.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSimilar to buying a sweater on clearance, this discount on tuition will slowly start to unravel the very fabric of the university, with implications spanning far beyond four years.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe do not need a new student union to make student politics more democratic, transparent, and accountable.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCalgary’s Central Library answers a question that has been asked about libraries for decades. How will they adjust to information being so readily available through technology?
Reading Time: 4 minutesSome students prefer online readings, others prefer physical textbooks. A third group, faced with this dilemma, just opt out of doing readings at all.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever heard the saying “less is more”? The University of Ottawa hasn’t. They believe “more is more” with the 80 gazillion pounds of salt they throw onto the ground whenever it drops below zero degrees Celsius.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe bus crash is a tragedy the entire city has mourned. In the age of social media, we all want information as soon as we can get our hands on it, even if it isn’t always true. We need to be patient, and trust in the OPS to conduct a proper investigation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a government that cares so much about freedom of speech, it seems odd not to include campus media as an essential part of post-secondary institutions, especially given the fact that student press holds administration and student government accountable in ways that the larger media landscape both cannot and would not do.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThursday morning the Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities, Hon. Merrilee Fullerton, announced that tuition would be cut by 10 per cent, OSAP would be returning to the 2016-17 funding levels and the six-month interest-free grace period was eliminated.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn award show’s principal purpose should be to honour artistic achievement that pushes boundaries, shows us something new, or changes the way we view the world, and often times that doesn’t translate into commercial popularity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Jan. 11 Ontario announced the winners of the pot licence lottery, with the majority of licences going to individuals rather than corporations. But critics have pointed out these individuals may have a harder time setting up shop in time for the April 1 deadline.
Reading Time: 3 minutesINAC needs to come to a reasonable agreement with the employee, given the fact that her claims of harassment were not taken seriously, and that she was wrongfully fired while on sick leave that was initially approved by her employer.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis reaction is especially unnecessary given that the mistake has already been properly remedied by the Gateway: They were quick to add corrections and editor’s notes to both stories in question.
Reading Time: 2 minutesClosing the residences over the break is actually a huge problem for lots of students. Short-term accommodations are provided by the university, but having to move all of your stuff to a new place for only three weeks, so that the university can inspect your unit, seems unnecessary.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s a plethora of sexual harassment that goes on at the U of O. Relationships between two consenting adults shouldn’t be the university’s primary concern. Instead, they should focus on the sexual assault convict studying at that the U of O law school. Or maybe the former UOHS doctor who’s facing over 80 charges of sexual assault.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis GA was voted on as an emergency motion in the last BOA meeting. That’s right, your democratic participation was an afterthought.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor many graduates who look back at their university experience, their memories are likely a complex series of frustrating, joyous, and unique events—but, they’re just that: complex.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis incredible dependency upon shelters reveals that employment and housing initiatives need to be radically overhauled.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ontario government should be granting temporary licences to these establishments (with possible high taxes) to keep them running while the appropriate framework is developed.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThrough introducing this legislation, the government is essentially saying that the economic position of elderly, small jam-makers in Northern Ontario is more important than the fundamental rights of Canadian workers to strike and fight for fair working conditions and decent wages.
Reading Time: 2 minutesObviously, students’ money shouldn’t be going towards something that they don’t support, but defunding OPIRG entirely isn’t the right way to go about it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere need to be increased opportunities for Franco-Ontarian and bilingual students to be able to practice and hone their language skills while not having to travel across the province or country in order to do so.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSeeing things move in your peripheral vision while you walk down a tunnel towards pitch black darkness is not my idea of a fun time.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf Rachiq really believed that the needs of the student body come before those of one student, he would have broken his silence and offered his resignation and full cooperation earlier than he did.
