(Evelien Heijselaar)

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Digging the hole deeper

When the University unveiled plans for the Queen’s Centre in 2004, it budgeted $230 million for its construction. Phase One was supposed to csot $124 million, Phase Two $83 million and Phase Three $23 million.

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New bill taxes creativity

Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has put forward a bill aiming to monitor the morality of Canada’s television and film industry. Bill C-10 is before the Senate and if passed will change Canada’s income tax laws regarding Canadian-content productions that qualify for tax credits.

Signed Editorial

We need to talk

Lately I’ve been thinking about breakups. One aspect of a breakup that can make or break how either party feels about the relationship ending is the way you deliver the news. These days, after any unsuccessful foray into the dating world, you have endless ways to dump your significant other.

Previously in Editorials

February 29, 2008

Lovelace ruling unjust

Justice Douglas Cunningham sentenced Queen’s professor Bob Lovelace to six months in prison in a Feb. 15 ruling, instructing him to pay a $25,000 fine after finding him guilty of contempt of court. The charges stem from Lovelace’s failure to obey a court injunction ordering him to cease protesting Frontenac Ventures’ uranium exploration. The proposed site, near Sharbot Lake, is claimed by the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation.

February 29, 2008

Prioritize academics

A key point in AMS executive-elect Radcliffe-Wang-St. Clair’s campaign platform was their plan to diversify the academic realm by creating new departments such as Middle Eastern studies, aboriginal studies and African studies.

February 29, 2008

A modest proposal

I remember in high school when, too tired to go to class, I would show up two minutes before the period was over with an I-missed-my-bus excuse. The teacher never believed me—perhaps unsurprisingly seeing as I’m from Toronto, where ‘missing a bus’ on most routes adds about five minutes to the travelling time.

February 15, 2008

AMS musical chairs

AMS executive-elect Talia Radcliffe, Ken Wang and Stephanie St. Clair announced their new council Sunday. Seven of the body’s eight positions are filled: the media director application period was extended to yesterday due to a lack of complete applications. Ken Wang said the early hiring’s meant to allow for a more complete transition— logical reasoning when half the council ended up with jobs they didn’t actually apply for.

February 15, 2008

How to bug Americans

The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to expand the government’s spy powers and offer legal protection to telecom companies that co-operated with President George W. Bush in wiretapping phone lines without warrant following the events of 9/11.