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Ontario universities have the highest tuition fees in Canada, according to a Statistics Canada report released on Tuesday.

Ontario university students pay, on average, just under $6,000 a year, whereas students in Quebec pay, on average, just under $2,300.Continue...

Students need to prepare for an H1N1 outbreak this fall, Dr. Gerald Evans said.
Evans, chief of the infectious diseases division at Kingston General and Hotel Dieu hospitals and associate professor in the School of Medicine, said flu season in Canada is starting earlier than normal and is expected to come out strong.Continue...

Two Queen’s students have reported being attacked by two males at Brock St. and University Ave. at 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 18.

Toby Moorsom PhD ’09 and John Pringle MA ’06 came across the two males, assumed to be intoxicated, who were sitting on construction vehicles at the intersection.Continue...

For continuing to green up its campus, Queen’s received a B- on the College Sustainability Report Card for the second year in a row, up from a C in 2007.

The latest report card, released by the Sustainable Endowments Institute on Oct. 7, included more than 200 post-secondary schools across North America.Continue...

Queen’s will adopt a provost governance model for 2010-11, pending Board of Trustees approval, Principal Daniel Woolf said.

The provost model would change the vice-principal (academic)’s title to vice-principal/provost.Continue...

Khurrum Awan may not have won his human rights complaints against Maclean’s magazine, but said he’s happy people are still talking about its effects two years later.

“It was to raise awareness on the issue of media defamation, the exclusion of Muslim voices and the lack of oversight of media,” he said.Continue...

Phil Fontaine might have visited last Thursday at the request of an old friend, but his visit wasn’t all pleasure and no business.

The former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations spoke at the School of Policy Studies’ Public Policy and Aboriginal Rights speaking series.Continue...

A trip to Kingston over the weekend ended in tragedy for a Sudbury family after the plane they were travelling in crashed over Algonquin Park, killing all four people onboard.

The deceased have been identified as the plane’s pilot, Kevin Houle and his wife Lorry Lemaire, both 50, their daughter Emily, 17 and her boyfriend Michael Rollins, also 17.Continue...

Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane was named McMaster University’s next president yesterday morning.

McMaster’s Board of Directors voted on Deane’s appointment in a closed session.Continue...