Alright, I have been blogging like crazy today over at Maclean’s. Go over check it out, comment in the forums, and let me know what you think!

(I am working tonight till midnight and then I am going to Toronto first thing tomorrow morning, so do not expect a quick response to any comments….  BTW Danny, I have declared Engineers to be “human raccoons.”) …

I am sitting beside someone and instead of talking to them, I am messaging her on facebook.  This is a clear sign of a facebook addiction. …

This is interesting, definitely a different time period. …

I forgot to mention….

After receiving emails from you complaining that you could not comment about my recent posts over at Macleans.ca, the web people over there have created a education forum: http://www.macleans.ca/forums/education/

I will be participating in it as much as possible. You can also create your own topics of discussion.

My exam is in 7 hours, so in 10 hours, I should be back to my normal pace of blogging. …

It is over at my Maclean’s blog: http://forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=dip&pid=44074&tid=44074&eid=54&so=1&ps=0&sb=1 …

Kevin and I decided to make some improvements to the Engineering Tuck Shop.

We figured that the display should be closer to the customers and the desk would have to be moved to achieve this.

It could have been worst, I felt that the Tuck Shop stock should have been replaced with MacSocSci gear. I was unable to secure any on a Saturday night.

(For those of you that are not familiar with the Drain, as the Tuck Shop is called, we reversed everything and the shop cannot open because the customer service window is now blocked) …

It has been a crazy couple of months for me. I have been swamped, and not feeling well on a regular basis. So I had fallen behind. The whole Maclean’s thing caught me off guard too.

I have been losing a lot of work recently due to stupidity when using my laptop. I have taken steps to correct that. My inbox had become overwhelmingly swamped recently. At one point, I had over 1200 emails sitting in it. I have managed to cut that back to only 107 emails right now. Hopefully, I will finish filing them before the weekend is out.

I leave you with a link: Erin Millar at Maclean’s talks about the CFS and their actions in regards to the media tonight. …

The Toronto Star (Red Banner) has an interesting story about exam stress today. It was written by Adrian Ma who was the CUP Ontario Bureau Chief last year and a member of the Cord Weekly. …

I just realized that it is 2:30pm and I have yet to eat. I am busy studying and working on stories and the like. I have to say that Black Cherry Vanilla is great. I am about to file my blog story for the day over at Maclean’s then I am going to be working on the last minute studying.

It is amazing the amount of emails that I am getting right now. I am reading them all. I try to reply as well. Right now, I have 11 emails in my draft folder at various stages of incompletion.

Also, I have to respond to a certain person’s comment on tpyos:

I love my tpyos. With otu tehm, this bolg wuold look lkie a broing nwespaper, with last weeks nwes!

(Okay I know that is not much of a come back but that is all I have right now. At least I am not from Vancouver and living in Toronto.) …

You think they would have learned by now, unhappy complaining phone calls do not work. The CFS gave Nick Martin at the Winnipeg Free Press and angry phone call and he reported it on his blog.

For the information of people reading the story outside of Winnipeg, the following are the quotes from the students that the CFS is so unhappy about:

But Grade 11 Sisler High School student Adriel Agpalza said the tuition freeze is “bittersweet”.

“If the tuition freeze results in the decline of standards of post-secondary education, it really is useless” despite making education cheaper, said Agpalza, who hopes to become a teacher.

“You can already see it in the engineering faculty” which his brother attends, Agpalza said.

Julia Wiebe, a second-year political studies major at Canadian Mennonite University, said the government’s income tax rebate on tuition for students who remain in Manitoba after graduation “seems a Band-Aid approach that needs more than throwing money at it.

“The vitality of downtown and job opportunities are equally important for whether you stay in a city. There is more work to be done, especially in areas of transportation and the core area,” said Wiebe.

For those of you that are UManitoba students, you can read the article using the library databases here: http://proquest.umi.com.proxy1.lib.umanitoba.ca/pqdweb?index=40&did=1250046361&SrchMode=3&sid=1&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1176156713&clientId=12305&aid=1

McMaster Students: We do not have the database for Canadian newspapers. Sorry but we are out of luck. (Somebody remind me that I need to look at all the Medical/Doctoral schools to see which have and do not have this database.) We have a different database (and this is why you always ask a librarian on the 2nd floor of Mills before assuming) for newspapers. …

It has been a very long time since I watched The National on CBC. Tonight was a great episode that focused on Vimy. Well done. I was moved by the coverage. …

http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=4621 …

The Toronto Star reports that seven NATO soldiers have been killed in action today in Southern Afghanistan. This means there is a chance that some or all of them are Canadian. Right now, at bases and homes across the country, families sit on edge and friends worry. My closer friends from my days in the Canadian Forces are all back in Canada. Many of them are just back from their rotation in Afghanistan.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the CF today. …

The Eyeopener has decided to risk another nasty letter from the CFS lawyers by conducting journalism about the CFS. I would be confident that the articles have been to the lawyer a few times just to make sure that the CFS does not have a real case. The CFS will likely waste student money on going after the Eyeopener anyway.
Here is the Eyeopener Editorial for this week’s edition:
 

The Eyeopener story about the Canadian Federation of Students is available online here (may be a for a limited time only since I would expect the CFS lawyers to launch a lawsuit against this student newspaper): http://www.theeyeopener.com/article/3350 (Oh yeah forgot my disclaimer – I take no responsibility nor do I necessarily endorse the contents {have to cover my @$$ in case the CFS sues me} of this link) That link being the link to The Eyeopener’s extensive article about the CFS: http://www.theeyeopener.com/article/3350

The CFS had one of their many lawyers fire off a “cautionary” letter to The Eyeopener and it is available here: http://www.theeyeopener.com/images/3350.pdf

I have taken screenshots of it here:
 

Here is a question for the CFS and CFS-O, why is it that only one question is asked about membership in the Canadian Federation of Students. If they are both separate organizations then would it not be valid to state that no student is required to pay CFS-O fees since they did not vote to join them because the question only states: “Are you in favour of membership in the Canadian Federation of Students?”

I remind CFS lawyers that I will not take your phone calls. …

I love the CFS, I am pretty sure that is what they want me to say.

I am not the only one that they are showing the love to recently. A student journalist made the mistake of talking about the CFS in a local newspaper. The article is available here (I take no responsibility nor do I endorse the contents {have to cover my @$$ in case the CFS sues me} of this link): A Political Beast by Jeffery Simpson.

In what is becoming normal CFS fashion of late, a letter was sent to the publication by the CFS’s lawyers (at student expense) to eVent! which is a small paper in B.C.

The student mentioned how this (the CFS’s lawyer letter) is a real headache for a student to deal with on his blog (I take no responsibility nor do I endorse the contents {have to cover my @$$ in case the CFS sues me} of this link): that ring of confidence: The lawyer letter

He follows up the story on his briefly on his blog at the end of March. He successfully prove to his paper that he article was accurate and the paper posted it back on the tubes (I take no responsibility nor do I endorse the contents {have to cover my @$$ in case the CFS sues me} of this link): http://www.jefferysimpson.net/a_month_of_testing/2007/03/quick_hits_from.html

He also move the discussion over to Metroblogging Vancouver which has been covering the DSU scandal pretty much from the start (I take no responsibility nor do I endorse the contents {have to cover my @$$ in case the CFS sues me} of this link): http://vancouver.metblogs.com/archives/2007/03/the_dead_letter_bins_old_issue.phtml

As I said, I love the CFS. …