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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 increases to match wages at other Montreal universities, and a limit on class sizes.

Students and homeowners battle on-air

Tensions between permanent family homeowners and students in Oshawa reached a boil on the local Rogers Cable station. The October 24 segment of Talk Local featured David Bray of the Windfield Farms Association and Naheed Dosani, VP Internal of the UOIT/Durham/Trent at Oshawa student association. At one point in the conversation, Dosani said that permanent residents need to be more welcoming of students, to which Bray shot back “You are a blight on our community.”

Tensions have been running high in Oshawa since homes designed for single families were purchased and rented out to students in communities surrounding the UOIT/Durham College campus. Recently, the city searched student houses for bylaw violations. The city used search warrants to gain entry and many students were upset by what they see as systematic discrimination against them.

Beam me up SSMU

The Student Society of McGill University will be holding a special general meeting next Tuesday in which they will vote on joining a Quebec students strike. The student strike is not the only matter before them. A student group calling itself “Students Organized Against Protestors”, SOAP for short, has put forth motions to honour McGill graduate William Shatner of Captain Kirk fame. …