Dave Homuth, ArtSci ’06, has been in the Journal hot seat before. This is the second consecutive year he’s run for AMS president, last year placing third with 14.95 per cent of first-place votes. Homuth, a life sciences and economics student who hails from Mississauga, questioned the current AMS executive’s quality of leadership, which has seen the resignation of four senior staff members over the past school year.

Looking haggard and disoriented and clad in a bright orange jumpsuit, David Canvin appeared in court via video feed Wednesday afternoon to face one charge of first-degree murder.
During the five-minute hearing, the Queen’s professor emeritus conferred briefly with his lawyer and was then remanded pending a bail hearing.
Canvin will continue to be held in the Quinte Detention Centre until his hearing, now set for Feb. 22.

Besides Nancy Huynh, VP (Operations) candidate for Team SHT, who was attending a meeting in Toronto, all AMS executive hopefuls were present in the JDUC’s Lower Ceilidh to answer tough questions on Homecoming, AMS employment methods and human rights issues. More than 150 students attended.

With elections just around the corner, Queen’s students are eager to outline exactly what they are looking for in the new rector and AMS executive. The Journal asked various campus organizations, as well as individual students, to describe their ideal AMS executive and rector, from the qualities they should have to the issues they should address. Current AMS president Ethan Rabidoux said accountability was a key issue for the future executive.

Mark MacGregor, Sci ’07, wants to ensure forgotten student cards are a thing of the past. He said Team HML wants to reinstate the All-Ages Access (AAA) program on campus, with an added twist.
Underage students would be given a reminder card in place of their student card, and if they left a bar without reclaiming their student card, a light would flash at the StuCon table, MacGregor said.
MacGregor said HML have budgeted the AAA initiative to cost around $2,000.

Jennifer Raffoul, ArtSci ’06 , is not only passionate about the diversity she sees at Queen’s, she’s part of it.
Raffoul, who’s from Trinidad, comes from a diverse ethnic background—her mother is Canadian and her father’s family is Lebanese. She said living in Trinidad gave her a good idea of what life can be like as a visible minority and how different groups can come together, something she hopes for Queen’s.

Life-saving device or dangerous weapon?
That’s the question surrounding Tasers, the “stun gun” introduced to Canada just over five years ago.
It was an investigation into forms of “non-lethal” force following a spate of civilian shootings by police in 1998 that launched one of the most controversial law enforcement issues in North America.
Late that year, Sgt. Darren Laur of the Victoria, B.C. police department was given the task of looking into alternative forms of police force. The Taser was one of the products he was testing.

Presidential candidate Lindsay Duncan and VP candidate Kyle Abrey, both ArtSci ’07, are up against the team of presidential candidate Max Rubin and VP candidate Lisa Jorgensen, both ArtSci ’08, as well as presidential candidate Alvin Tedjo, ArtSci ’06, and his running mate, VP candidate Melissa Grosser, ArtSci ’07. Current ASUS President Bradley Hammond said he was ecstatic there was going to be a race for the executive.

There was light chatter amongst the approximately 50 supporters who attended the party held at downtown restaurant Sol Latino for local Green party candidate Eric Walton. Walton said his goal was to achieve 10 per cent of the local vote. After the final votes were counted, Walton came in with 8.04 per cent of the local vote, better than the 6.13 per cent they received in 2004. The Green party obtained 4.5 per cent of the national popular vote and did not win any seats.

The New Democratic Party finished the election with a gain of 10 seats for a total of 29 representatives in the House of Commons. Approximately 100 people gathered with Hutchison, the NDP candidate for Kingston and the Islands, to watch the CBC election coverage. Most attendees donned checkered flannel shirts and baseball caps and enjoyed a pint as the numbers rolled in. Peter Mansbridge’s voice mingled with shouts spurred by the Leafs-Senators hockey game as Hutchison circulated through the crowd gathered in the homey inn’s bar, shaking hands and navigating around a pool table.