working class political blogger joey coleman is taken by surprise by La Boheme
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newsdurhamregion.com ran a story today on the failure of Oshawa’s controversial anti-student housing bylaw.
As predicted, the bylaw has created a student housing crisis with only 11 houses near the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College being approved by the city.
The city received 201 license applications, however, they only approved [...]
Continue reading about Oshawa’s anti-student housing bylaw: complete failure
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Last year, the City of Oshawa launched what I consider to be an anti-student campaign which began with a series of municipal law enforcement raids to harass students. These cumulated in the passing of Canada’s strongest anti-student housing bylaw.
This year, many other communities are looking at passing similar bylaws in an attempt [...]
At least one person isn’t happy that a ’student apartment’ building will be located near UOIT
Students announce a boycott of the city council and express a desire to leave Oshawa.
Continue reading about Final vote on Oshawa housing bylaw tonight
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IN THE NEWS
Three University students killed in Ottawa crash
Story not reposted as copyright for it belongs to The Canadian Press and I do my best to respect copyright. You can read this section on Macleans.ca.
St. Thomas University faculty union ordered to vote
Striking faculty at St Thomas university have been ordered to [...]
Bylaw targetting students will leave 500 homeless according to student association
Continue reading about Oshawa moves closer to removing students near university
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21/01/2008 18:53:49 – at the meeting. Finally got here after getting stuck on a GO Train that was 30 minutes late.
21/01/2008 18:54:20 – the permanent residents are go in force tonight. They are unhappy.
21/01/2008 19:00:44 – applauses are not allowed. Heaven forbid a politician feel some pressure. (This case it [...]
Continue reading about Liveblogging the Oshawa meeting – 21 Jan 08
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While, it is back to the ‘Shawa for me today. I will be covering tonight’s city committee meeting where they are planning to redo the proposed student housing bylaw. (Disclaimer: for legal reasons, they don’t actually call it that and they protest that the bylaw has nothing to do with students. [...]
Proposed changes would have forced students out of neighbourhood near campus
Continue reading about Oshawa Council backs down on controversial housing bylaw
Mayor says residents want to get rid of all students
Continue reading about Oshawa may charge student-area landlords up to $1000 annual fee
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Another looming faculty strike
Part-time faculty at Concordia are threatening strike action, according to the student paper The Link. After six years without a contract part-time faculty at Concordia university have voted 97 per cent in favour of strike action. The faculty demands include job protection and security, internal pay equity, pay [...]
Search warrants are systematic discrimination against students: critics
Titus Gregory, who blogs at www.studentunion.ca, today posted most of the court documents from the Supreme Court of British Columbia in the matter of Society of the Douglas Students’ Union v. Douglas College. He paid over $300 in photocopy costs in order to obtain these documents which are of great interest to students across Canada.
Global [...]
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My coverage for Maclean’s online of the 2007 Ontario provincial budget