He has been going on for a very long time.
Kyra Machen who is the moderator should be intervening. She is not. Come on! Lets more on.

All the candidates seem to believe that Quarters makes money that supports student services and life here at Mac.
Actually Quarters lost $200,000 (yes $200,000) in the last year that audited statements were released.
Just a detail that I had to note.

There are now 3 students who do not fall into the categories stated before.

I am currently at the Ward One Councillor Debate in Gilmour Hall. The turnout is extremely poor. Just the MSU-types, MSU-staff, University staff, and campaign teams. I actually one see one student that does not fit into the above categories. It is too bad, clearly a reflection of the last minute organization of the debate and lack of long-term promotion of the event. Students on campus vote on Wednesday. The vast majority of them have no clue because the MSU Vice-President Education is asleep at the switch on this issue. We have had no mayoral debate. That is a complete shame. One only has to look at Saskatchewan and Manitoba where there are also Municipal Elections this year to see what Student Unions can do.
There was also a well attended Mayoral debate at the University of Toronto organized by their Student Union.
Tony Greco -
“Too Much talk not enough action in the last three years”
“Built respect on both sides”
“Built more residences downtown for students”
“Keep Quarters (student union bar) open”
Brian McHattie
“Popham (MSU President) doing great job with the rest of Executive”
“Attract more business to Hamilton” “Triple-Bottom line approach – business attracted to economic, environment, and social bottom-line. Fair wages, good benefits, control emissions, strong business bottom line to be successful. Dofasco is a excellent example of this.”
- more local purchasing
- more working with credit unions to increase local investment
- focus on local small businesses “a lot less risky to invest in small business than to spend more chasing big multi-nationals which do not have Hamilton’s interests in mind”
- need to work to keep McMaster (and Mohawk, and Redeemer) students in Hamilton when they graduate
- in favour of keeping Quarters open.
Fred Spencer
Very much on the attack on Brian McHattie. Not much of substance. I am not even bothering to repeat what he said because it shows that he is clearly just an attack candidate.
…. more to come…

The CFS will be launching a new website tomorrow.  The domain name is clear as to the purpose of the site.

Link to Canadian Federation of Students – Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiant – ReduceTuitionFees.ca

There is a good timeline of the events that have lead to the Impeachment of the G7 at the SFSS.   A few people around me right now are asking for the background.  This is the best place to get it. 

Link to IssueGate at SFSS Democracy Now

I have been having fun playing around with a site today.  It is called Death by Caffeine and it is fun.  Basically, you can select almost all drinks and see how much you have to drink to overdose on Caffeine.  Take the Link over to Death by Caffeine.

There is also a death by food type site there has well.  It is called Death by Penguin Mints.

Updated 1 time last update 0400GMT 31 Oct 06

Anarchocyclist, a SFU student who blogs (surprisely) at www.anarchocyclist.ca has the inside scoop on the latest SFSS news on his blog.

He posts more information about the frozen SFSS bank accounts.  It turns out that payroll cannot be processed with the current freeze on accounts.  This is very concerning for the SFSS staff who have already been hurt by the actions of the G7 and now the conquences of the G7′s refusal to obey the will of students. The full post from Anarchocyclist » Blog Archive » SFSS bank accounts frozen: inside info revealed .

Also, Anarchocyclist blogs about the possibility of the SFSS Forum appointing an acting President of the SFSS.  It is a good post, I would go and read it.  Correction: The Forum does not have the power to fill impeached positions as per the SFSS bylaws: Bylaw 8, section 8

Update 1:  There is a student who voted ‘no’ that has reacted on their blog to the freezing of the SFSS accounts: http://ryandaw.livejournal.com/26238.html

I found the following segment of The Brian Lehrer Show to be very interesting and informative.
It is a discussion about the Cost of Higher Learning. The discussion is in the context of the American mid-term elections. A substantial portion of the discussion is very American focused but the overall issues are the same. The balancing act of how to fund Higher Education with other budget pressures, how to be assist the middle and lower classes to afford Higher Education. I would not take time out of the day to listen to it, but if you can listen while doing something else, I give it a recommendation.
The discussion panel consists of:
Jeff Selingo, editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education; and
Sandi Baum, senior policy analyst for the College Board and professor of Economics at Skidmore College