Protests against increased tuition fees show no sign of stopping.
According to CTV Montreal, the Concordia Student Union voted last Tuesday to reject the recent agreement made between student groups and the government.
The CSU weren’t alone in this decision as 5 different CEGEPS and several departments at UQAM and University of Montreal also rejected the offer.
The agreement would result in appoint student...
Canadian tax dollars were used to pay International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda’s stay at the luxurious Savoy Hotel in London, England.
Oda issued an apology last Tuesday in the House of Commons for her behavior.
She was originally planned to stay at a different hotel where she attended a conference.
Yet the Minister’s team changed her reservation for the Savoy where rooms cost $665 per night...
Ron Leech, a Wildrose candidate in the Alberta elections, apologized for his racially charged comments pronounced during a radio show.
Leech admitted having the upper hand in the elections as he is a white man speaking to an entire community, not just the select few members of his own ethnic group.He is currently in the race to represent Calgary-Greenway.
According to the CBC, Leech said...
Laurent Proulx, a University de Laval student, had asked the Court for the entirety of the picketing in front of his University to stop.
On April 4, the Superior Court of Quebec agreed only to grant Proulx with the right to assist his anthropology class.
Yet, upon arriving at his anthropology class last Tuesday, he quickly learned that his teacher had cancelled it...
Quebec smokers are suing Canada’s three largest tobacco companies for over $27 billion in damages.
They claim that they were misled by cigarette companies, that they were not informed of the dangers of smoking, or that they have developed health problems accordingly.
Roger Ackman, a 73-year-old retired vice-president of Imperial Tobacco, testified in court Tuesday.
Ackman admitted that...
