Archive
24 Oct

Old enough to be John McCain’s dad

A story in the Globe and Mail, recounts a celebration of The Ubyssey’s 90th year in publication. Notable past contributors include: Earle Birney, Pierre Burton, Morley Safer. And yes, there […]

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17 Oct

Sports writer Browne pitches and tells

Tyler Kalmakoff, a writer at The Omega, Thomson Rivers University’s student paper, interviewed Boston Red Sox writer Ian Browne in the Oct. 15 issue.Here’s Browne’s answers to 21 questions about […]

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17 Oct

Metro Canada looking for free hires

Metro English Canada, the country’s No. 1 free daily newspaper, is looking for editorial interns to join our bureaus in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax. The successful candidates, […]

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14 Oct

Election night, on deadline

Students taking an introductory reporting course at the University of King’s College in Halifax will be reporting the election live-to-deadline tonight. Check out their website, which also includes riding-by-riding coverage […]

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10 Oct

Desperately seeking scabs

In the face of a possible employee strike at the Montreal Gazette, Canwest News Service has approached journalism students from Concordia University and offered them work on a temporary basis, […]

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8 Oct

Joining the CAJ

The Canadian Association of Journalists- an advocacy and education group representing some 1,500 journalists- is offering a special October rate for students. The $20 charge includes, in their words: -cheap […]

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1 Oct

Why education is election issue No. 1

Arati Sharma, a student at McMaster University, wrote this column in the Hamilton Spectator about education as the top issue in the federal election. She argues that higher education is […]

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30 Sep

Election woes at McGill

An article in the McGill Daily about an independent politician who was asked to leave campus- twice.

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27 Sep

Student debt, election-style

Check out this post from my classmate Dan Robson at Carleton University about student debt and the promises made during election time- that don’t always come to fruition.

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26 Sep

UBC j-student live blogs candidates debate

Journalism students at the University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism hosted a candidate’s debate with the four candidates that are battling it out for the Vancouver-Centre seat. NDP […]

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