Joey Coleman on January 16th, 2010

University residences used to be about providing an affordable communal living environment for students. Today, Universities have turned them into profit centres on campus. Sure, there are common areas, but the idea is to give students has much private space as possible at the highest price possible. It should come as no surprise that the [...]

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Joey Coleman on October 21st, 2008

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MACLEANS.CA   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, [...]

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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

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT MACLEAN’S ONLINE   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 [...]

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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

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT MACLEAN’S ONLINE    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. [...]

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Joey Coleman on January 21st, 2008

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT MACLEAN’S ONLINE 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 [...]

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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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