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all this has happened before…

There has been, over the past two days, a loud and almost viol­ent reac­tion to the fil­ing of a com­plaint to the UN without first seek­ing the approval of Coun­cil. I am some­what shocked at the response. On any other issue at the AMS, I have got­ten maybe one or two emails express­ing an opinion. […]

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who’s flying the plane?!? a terrified passenger’s thoughts on disaster

I feel deceived. I feel betrayed. I, sadly, do not feel sur­prised. I note the hypo­crisy of a Pres­id­ent who com­plained to me that someone “never fol­lows pro­cess” and would think it accept­able to file a major com­plaint with the highest gov­ern­ing body in the world without con­sult­ing the Coun­cil to which he is responsible […]

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Dear Blake: What the hell are you thinking?

Dear Blake;

Why was the Com­mu­nic­a­tions Plan­ning Group not copied on the Pivot Legal Press Release?
What com­mit­tee of Coun­cil did this go through?
What motion at Coun­cil approved the fil­ing of a com­plaint to the UN with the AMS name on it?
What legal coun­sel, Pivot or (hope­fully) oth­er­wise, have we retained for this com­plaint, and if so, […]

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drunk driving, Parliament, and LexisNexis: a morning mostly wasted

I was read­ing Geoff Costelloe’s blog, Geoff’s Place, mostly for Sen­ate syn­opses (which you should all read), but I came across a post from earlier this sum­mer that piqued my interest.  I was going to com­ment on it, but then (because I have been writ­ing papers all night) I decided to have a little […]

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western worries – Alberta, BC to doff their tuition caps?

There is a troub­ling wind blow­ing across the west. Like the Chinook, which melts the frozen prair­ies, this wind theatens to melt the the freeze on real tuition that exists in both BC and Alberta.
The caps – 2% in BC and 1.5% in Alberta – have kept the cost of tui­titon from rising drastic­ally during […]

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Stirring the pot at the SLFS

As some or all of you know, the Stu­dent Legal Fund Soci­ety passed a motion to approve a grant applic­a­tion by the BC Civil Liber­ties Asso­ci­ation. The vote was 5–2, with mine being one of the votes in favour. There is cur­rently some con­tro­versy over whether this was or was not within the man­date of […]

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committee reform passes

Thank god.

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It’s Finally Here

Com­mit­tee reform is on the agenda for final approval tonight. Will post as soon as out­come is clear!

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The Impending Ubyssey Hissy Fit over AMS Communications

From Twit­ter:
not sure yet if we’re on the trail of some­thing or whether we (as an edit­or­ial board) have just been being dicks lately.
I’ve had the priv­ilege of sit­ting, on and off, on the Com­mu­nic­a­tions Plan­ning Group dur­ing my time on Coun­cil. It has always been one of the more enjoy­able com­mit­tees plan­ning groups […]

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First Annual Suicide Awareness Day

Men­tal health is import­ant, espe­cially when you’re not mak­ing such a great go of things. I think this is a great event, des­pite the use of the “First Annual” term, which I detest. Help­ing people under­stand sui­cid­al­ity can help them recog­nize it in their friends and in them­selves.
1st Annual Sui­cide Aware­ness Day
Tues­day, Novem­ber 3 […]

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