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Concordia President Quits
Three days before Christmas and only halfway into her mandate, Judith Woodsworth has stepped down as president of Concordia University for “personal reasons.”
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Living In Limbo
When Simo Sandrine Téclaire arrived at Dorval airport as an accepted immigrant to Canada in 2006, she was surprised to learn that her file was not going to be accepted after all.
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Canadians Launch Birth Control Class Action Suit
EDMONTON (CUP) — Two brands of birth control pills prescribed to roughly two million women in 2009 are being named in a national class action lawsuit alleging serious health side-effects to some of its prescribed users.
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Textbooks’ Price Might Drop
The price of textbooks could drop by 10 to 15 per cent overnight.
This isn’t a scam, or a Black Friday special. A national student group is calling on the government to stop allowing distributors to add taxes to the textbooks they import. -
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CEGEP Students Walk Against Tuition
At the start of a new school week at the CEGEP du Vieux Montréal, students stood outside the college’s entrance on the morning of Nov. 22 and told arriving classmates that the school was closed. All students were locked out.
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‘We Cannot Win This Battle On Our Own’
Just three and a half hours north of Parliament Hill is a small village where the Algonquin of Barriere Lake live.
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I’m Not Buying It
Most activism is predicated on doing something. Taking to the streets in protest, starting petitions and letter writing campaigns, or simply calling your MP to lodge a complaint, are all actions undertaken every day in the name of a myriad of causes.
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Student Centre Rejected
Concordia students handed Fusion its first major political defeat last Thursday, as the slate’s proposed Student Union Building fee levy was overwhelmingly voted down.
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Math Association Challenges ASFA Goliath
The Arts and Science Federation of Associations, representing 17,000 Concordia students, will undergo a serious shakeup over the next few months. Leading the upheaval will be the Mathematics and Statistics Students Association, which represents 560 members.
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A Bottle Panel
Water privatization was the topic on the table at a panel on Nov. 24, as insiders from the beverage industry, academics and environmental researchers were invited to debate both sides of banning water bottles on campus.