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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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.
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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 [...]
Bylaw targetting students will leave 500 homeless according to student association
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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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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 [...]
Proposed changes would have forced students out of neighbourhood near campus
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