Commerce Director Peter Kissick said deregulated tuition didn’t pay for Goodes Hall, pictured above, but it has created an enhanced learning environment. (Ian Babbit)

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Paying more to get more?

When Dalton McGuinty became premier in 2003, he followed through on an election promise to place a two-year freeze on tuition. Last month, McGuinty announced the tuition freeze would end after this academic year. Before the tuition freeze, the Ontario government regulated Arts and Science programs to a fee increase of no more than two per cent per year.

Previously in Features

October 18, 2005

The fight to free the Cuban Five

On Sept. 29, a screening of the Irish-Cuban documentary Mission Against Terror drew a crowd of students, faculty and members of the Kingston community to fill Ellis Auditorium. The documentary, created by directors Bernadette Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz, examined Cuba’s ongoing struggle to protect itself against terrorism.

October 14, 2005

The ‘pen’ of Kingston past

As the first capital of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald’s hometown, and a once-major port city at the juncture of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, Kingston boasts some of this country’s richest history. However, one of Kingston’s important historic elements is often overlooked in favour of more cheerful, tourist-friendly destinations—Canada’s first penitentiary.

October 6, 2005

A territory ‘torn between two worlds’

A little more than four hours north of Kingston by plane, Canada’s youngest territory stretches across 20 per cent of the country’s land mass, encompassing some of the most bleak and beautiful landscape in the world.

October 4, 2005

Hockey night in Kingston

The game’s development further complicates the issue. Hockey evolved from several different forms of stick-and-ball games—such as the Irish hurley, the Scottish shinty (the source of the word “shinny”), the Dutch ice-golf game known as kolf, the aboriginal lacrosse game, and the English bandy, wickets and rickets—so the sport’s lineage is not easily traced.

September 30, 2005

A mission of mercy on death row

A prison guard at Louisiana’s Angola State Prison told Sister Helen Prejean to turn away for the last few moments. But on that night in 1984, she didn’t listen. The guard placed a metal cap on Patrick Sonnier’s shaved head, and put a mask over Sonnier’s face. The cap was connected to the electric generator that would kill the convicted murderer, and his face was covered so witnesses couldn’t see what happens to a human face when a lethal dose of electricity runs though its body.