Politics

Local teachers demonstrated outside of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s talk held at the Holiday Inn.
  • 9 years 1 month ago

Premier backlash

When Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty visited Kingston on Friday, he was greeted by a group of a dozen or so teachers protesting against Bill 115.Continue...

Approximately two dozen people attended Andrea Horwath’s Q&A at Common Ground Coffeehouse on Friday.
  • 9 years 2 months ago

Horwath talks tuition, student employment

The Ontario NDP is committed to solving student issues in the province, says the president of the Queen’s NDP branch.Continue...

As part of a special winter speaker series, Green party leader Elizabeth May speaks in the Ban Righ Fireside Room on Friday afternoon.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Elizabeth May comes to campus

MP Elizabeth May sat down with the Journal to talk about student voting, environmental activism and the Green Party’s future.Continue...

Queen's Model Parliament delegates gather in preparation for the conference.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Queen's takes the Hill

It's the responsibility of young Canadians to understand the value of voting, but it's also the responsibility of parliamentarians and pundits to promote the importance of engaging in the democratic processContinue...

Protesters occupied St. James Park in Toronto this month as part of a wider movement advocating for global equity. The protesters were evicted from the park last week.
  • 10 years 23 hours ago

Socialist writer speaks to students

Students and Kingston locals gather to hear writer Richard Dufour speak on the Occupy movement and its place in socialist discourse.Continue...

If passed, new legislation could affect the way users of DC ++ are prosecuted under Canadian law
  • 10 years 1 month ago

Campus file-sharing draws attention

Queen's Information Technology Services receives complaints from major film companies concerning illegally downloaded files on the network.Continue...
  • 10 years 1 month ago

Trudeau stops by

In the first installment of the sit-down series this year, Justin Trudeau speaks to the Journal about student issues, engagement and his time in the political sphere.Continue...
  • 10 years 2 months ago

Candidates talk student issues

The Journal spoke to provincial candidates about the issues that affect students most.Continue...
  • 2 months 2 weeks ago

The realities of being a young woman of colour in politics

I never understood why women of colour are so underrepresented in Canadian politics.Continue...
  • 9 months 3 weeks ago

The fight for paid sick days continues through a pandemic. It shouldn’t.

In 2018, the newly-elected Ford government cancelled all mandatory paid sick days. Since then, health advocates and labour activists have been fighting to bring them back. In a global pandemic with a contagious virus, paid sick days are more vital than ever.

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