Defer final exam york I hope YorkU could kindly approved my reason for deferring my final exam. I really don’t want to take the final exam.  I know I can do it and do it well, but what’s the meaning of doing it ?  I just can’t see it. It’s a big world out there….I…

The pressure of the year’s first exam-and-essay crunch is driving some students at Canadian universities to look for help in study drugs. A dealer might charge $20 for a single pill of the prescription Adderall, but students under stress are willing to pay. Find study notes, test banks, past exam and other study materials www.breakstudy.com…

Startling video shows altercation with TTC constables. The TTC is promising it will have more to say Wednesday about a startling video which shows TTC special constables punching people in a subway station. A roughly six-minute video of the incident was making the rounds online on Tuesday. “The altercation involving TTC officers is extremely serious,”…

York University’s TA strike came as expected. Just like the strike in 2008, the entire campus is shut down. Students will be out of school for, who knows how long. I suppose this is not a surprise for many people. York has a reputation of labor disruptions, all in the name of creating a better…

After 6 years of peace, 3,700 Contracted Professor and teaching assistants at York University rejected the offer by the university and officially went on strike at 12:00am March 3rd. Before the voting, bargaining team had made some progresses on the collective agreement, but they suggested that the result is dissatisfying earlier on Monday, March 2nd.…

  While Around 1,000 contracted professors were settled down with an agreement last week, teaching assistants at University of Toronto decided to reject the deal their union got with the University, and they are now officially on strike with 90% vote against the collective agreement. Most of the classes will still be going on, but…