News making
About that National Post op-ed…
A few days ago, the esteemed Kelly McParland of the National Post published a piece on the Post’s online group blog Full Comment on the Quebec student protests…
Canadian Federation Of Students
7 posts on Canadian Federation Of Students from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
News making
Quebec-style student strike to come to Ontario?
The entitled madness may be building in Canada. Members of the Canadian Federation of Students are petitioning the organization to call an Ontario-wide strike…
Ontario Politics
Solidarity For Their Own Good: A history of the Canadian Federation of Students
This past week, the Graduate Student’s Association at the University of Calgary overwhelmingly voted to leave the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). The…
Economy and Budget
Stakeholder reaction to the 2010 budget
National Citizens Coalition Instead of fixing the job crisis as it promised in yesterday’s Throne Speech, the Harper government appears to be coasting on last…
CBC
CBC jumps into the sandbox
You know that there’s something wrong with your line of thinking when you tread in territory where even the Canadian Federation of Students won’t go. The…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Canadian Federation of Students wisely rejects Israel boycott
Yesterday, B’nai Brith emailed me their press release concerning a Ryerson Student Union motion to be tabled at the Annual congress of the Canadian Federation…
Economy and Budget
The budget and students
In a post about a week ago on the various reactions to the government’s 2006 budget “Focusing on Priorities”, I featured the following three quotations from…