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Liberal loss leaves some students worried

Canadians voted in the 41st federal election May 2, resulting in the Liberal party taking a record-breaking hit.

Laval University football players test positive for steroids

Two football players form Laval University have been suspended for two years after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs.

UBC becomes Canada’s first fair trade campus

The University of British Columbia (UBC) was recently named Canada’s first fair trade campus by Fairtrade Canada, the Canadian branch of the global fair trade certification program.

McGill students elected as MPs

Laurin Liu, a newly elected MP for the New Democratic Party (NDP), is the youngest of five McGill University students who won their respective Quebec ridings in the recent federal election.

Liu, 20, will be leaving McGill after her second year at the university for life on Parliament Hill. She said her extensive extracurricular record, a lot of which is with the NDP, will help her as Rivière-des-Mille-Îles’ new MP.

Western students protest recent referendum

Students at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) are protesting and appealing a decision by their University Students’ Council that deemed the results of a recent referendum invalid.

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