Joey Coleman on June 15th, 2009

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Joey Coleman on October 21st, 2008

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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 [...]

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Joey Coleman on October 7th, 2008

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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 [...]

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Joey Coleman on February 18th, 2008

At least one person isn’t happy that a ’student apartment’ building will be located near UOIT

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Ontario’s chief human rights commissioner warns City of Oshawa about new housing bylaw

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Joey Coleman on February 11th, 2008

Students announce a boycott of the city council and express a desire to leave Oshawa.

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Joey Coleman on January 28th, 2008

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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 [...]

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Joey Coleman on January 23rd, 2008

Bylaw targetting students will leave 500 homeless according to student association

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Joey Coleman on January 21st, 2008

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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 [...]

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Joey Coleman on January 21st, 2008

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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. [...]

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Joey Coleman on January 16th, 2008

Proposed changes would have forced students out of neighbourhood near campus

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Joey Coleman on January 4th, 2008

Mayor says residents want to get rid of all students

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Joey Coleman on November 6th, 2007

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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 [...]

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Joey Coleman on October 31st, 2007

Search warrants are systematic discrimination against students: critics

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Joey Coleman on March 23rd, 2007

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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Joey Coleman on March 22nd, 2007

My coverage for Maclean’s online of the 2007 Ontario provincial budget

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