The war is over: aftermath of the WUFA strike By Hannah Larking News Editor October 15, 2008 UWindsor students went back to school on Monday, Oct. 6, after the Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA) voted 91 per cent in favour of a new contract.
 Shortly after returning to class for the first time in 17 days, students were notified of what those two and a half weeks had really cost them: a revised final exam period that rescheduled exams to as close as two days before Christmas.
In addition to this, the new exam schedule has exams, which are regulated to be three hours in length, scheduled as early as 7 a.m., and as late as 8 p.m., leaving many commuting students upset.
Tiffany Gooch, president of the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance (UWSA), assured that efforts are being made to accommodate for these circumstances. “The argument was that there isn’t a class that starts at 7 a.m., and for a very good reason,” said Gooch.
Residence Services is looking into ways to allow out-of-town students to stay in residence for the duration of exams, Gooch explained. >> | Statistics Canada: 8,519 left Windsor 2006-7 By Justin Bondy
Lance Writer October 15, 2008 According to the 2006-07 Canadian census released by Statistics Canada, the city of Windsor has taken a sharp decline in population with a net drop of 1,744 residents: the worst in the country.
 With so much of the city’s population on the out, the question to be begged is why?
Local candidates, up for election and re-election, cite each other’s party platforms as possible push factors for emigration.
Many residents have moved west, to cities like Calgary and Edmonton. Others have left due to job loss, and because of the perception that Windsor’s opportunities for stable work are dwindling. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Communist party candidate booted from CAW Centre By Clarissa Guyton Lance Writer October 15, 2008 On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Communist Party candidate for Windsor West, Elizabeth Rowley, was asked to leave the CAW Centre by Campus Community Police while exercising her right to campaign.
 Rowley said that she had set up a display in order to campaign for the upcoming Canadian election when she was first approached by someone from the information desk and asked to leave. Rowley tried explaining to her that it was her right to be there.
“I provided her with a pamphlet showing that I have a right to campaign here and she wouldn’t even read it,” said Rowley. “I explained to her that it was my right to campaign here because it is a public place, and the Canada Elections Act confirms this.”
The sixth part of the Canada Elections Act addresses candidate concerns, and under section 81 it reads that “no person who is in control of a building, land, street or any other place, any part of which is open without charge to members of the public, whether on a continuous, periodic or occasional basis—including any commercial, business, cultural, historical, educational, religious, governmental, entertainment or recreational place—may prevent a candidate or his or her representative from campaigning in or on that part when it is open without charge to members of the public.” >> |
