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AUSU This Month

Health Plan for AUSU Members – Announced Finally, AUSU members can save on health and dental benefits in Canada! Your council has struck a deal with Student Benefits Administrators, an affiliate of Ingle International and Imagine Financial Ltd., to provide great rates to AUSU members on their commercial insurance products. The program offers a range… Read more »

Time for King Ralph’s reign to end

EDMONTON (CUP) — If you’re like me”?that is, someone who has their grade ten”?you probably aren’t a big fan of Ralph Klein. But, since you’re an Albertan, you probably voted for him anyway. This political paradox is a disturbingly common one in our province, but given poor old Ralph’s deteriorating mental state, such party-based voting… Read more »

Concordia administration removes copies of student newspaper from stands

MONTREAL (CUP) — The Concordia University administration removed copies of the Link from stands yesterday, leaving editors of the independent newspaper questioning whether the move was an attempt to interfere in the student union elections. Tracey Lindeman-Jarvis, Editor in Chief of the Link, was informed on Wednesday at around noon that people were removing copies… Read more »

Government should ensure access to education, says Rae

VICTORIA (CUP) — Bob Rae, a potential contender for the Liberal leadership, shared his views on education at a public lecture at the University of Victoria March 28. Rae, a former NDP premier of Ontario, called for a “national vision” in education. “Education and the learning agenda has to become a much bigger part of… Read more »

Women You Should Know – March Women

The more science learns what life is, the more reluctant scientists are to define it. – Leila M. Coyne, 1985 March 3, 1678 – heroine, Marie Madelaine Jarret de Vercheres was born in Quebec Canada. When only a teenager, she became an unlikely heroine when she and her siblings defended the family fort against attack…. Read more »

The Plagiarism Plight

Plagiarism is a word that incites feelings of indignation, shame, and dishonor. The thought that a student would steal another’s ideas or work is reprehensible. It is unethical and deserves punishment. In all fairness to students who have worked for their grades, those students who have claimed another’s work as their own should not be… Read more »