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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.Continue...

Conservative candidate Lou Grimshaw gracefully proclaimed defeat at 11:30 p.m. last night, telling the 30-odd supporters who had gathered at Boston Pizza on Gardiners Road that he “[didn’t] know what else we could have done.”
Upon his return to the blue-and-white-decorated room at Boston Pizza, Grimshaw said he thinks new Prime Minister Stephen Harper will first address the issue of governmental accountability.Continue...

Team HML has some bones to pick.

They say they’re frustrated with the bum rap students have been getting around Kingston. They’re also concerned by the lack of support they believe the University—and even the current AMS—have afforded students in the face of criticism.Continue...

The East Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel erupted in applause last night when it was confirmed Peter Milliken had been re-elected as the MP for Kingston and the Islands.

Milliken, who won with 45.86 per cent of the vote, seemed content about his local victory. Liberal enthusiasm was dimmed, however, when the Tories—as predicted by political pundits—won the plurality of votes Canada-wide. With 124 of 308 seats, the Conservative party will form the next government as a minority.Continue...

Students feeling overcrowded in residences can look forward this term to some relief or at least some entertainment.

MCRC was successful in its bid to obtain an estimated $55,000 to $60,000 in funding from residence administration for improvements to residence common rooms, including entertainment equipment and facilities.Continue...

On Jan. 1, the University of Michigan (U-M) stopped selling Coke products on its campus after refusing to renew the university’s contract with the global beverage company.

U-M had requested that Coca-Cola undergo an independent third-party investigation into the issues surrounding fair labour practices and safe working environments in Colombia and sustainable environmental practices in India.Continue...

Students showed they have more than just classes on their minds by turning out in spades at Monday’s AMS town hall forum with Principal Karen Hitchcock.

Spectators were forced to watch from the balcony as hundreds squeezed into the lower ceilidh of the JDUC to express their concerns about tuition, accessibility and deregulation.

Hitchcock said she wanted the event to focus solely on student finances, an area overlooked at town hall meetings held last semester.Continue...

Like many young people across the country, Joshua Kertzer, ArtSci ’06, is unhappy with politics in Canada. Unlike most, however, the 21-year-old political studies student has taken his dissatisfaction in an unexpected direction.
Kertzer, a Calgary native in his final year at Queen’s, has teamed up with fellow Calgarian and University of Toronto law student Erin Runnals in a second attempt to prevent the re-election of Conservative MP Rob Anders in the riding of Calgary West.Continue...

3,000 sheets of paper. 1,200 coffee cups. 300 plastic shot glasses.

These are some of the products consumed by AMS services over the course of an average day.

The number of products used, as estimated by service staff members and managers, are part of the reason why Jennifer Holub, AMS social issues commissioner, and John Manning, chair of the SIC Earth Centre Committee, say they have put forth a motion to create the position of AMS environmental sustainability coordinator.Continue...