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Nova Scotia university students may face hefty tuition increases now that the last funds from a government bursary program have dried up, according to a report submitted Jan. 10 to Dalhousie University by the school’s budget advisory committee.

Many of us hate doing laundry, but one Edmonton student took this to a new level when he wore the same pair of jeans for 15 months without washing them, in the name of fashion and science.

The British Columbia Supreme Court will rule  in a case involving the validity of a petition submitted by the University of Victoria Student Society (UVSS) to hold a referendum on membership in its national student union.

Representatives of the UVSS  submitted a petition to the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) requesting a membership referendum.
This is in accordance with the CFS bylaws as available on the organization’s website.

The University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) has cancelled a controversial art exhibit featuring portraits of women who were murdered or have gone missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

The art display, titled “The Forgotten,” is a series of 69-by-10-foot oil paintings created by Vancouver artist Pamela Masik. It was called off Jan. 12 after pressure from some women’s and First Nations groups who found the exhibit offensive.

RCMP in Montreal have arrested 13 students for allegedly  photocopying textbooks and selling the copies to several universities in the Montreal area, in violation of the Canadian Copyright Act.

The RCMP announced the arrests in a Jan. 20 press release.