Do you have a research project related to post-secondary education in mind that you’d like to pursue? Do you have ideas for how UMSU could improve its services, revenue generation or advocacy? Good news: UMSU is taking on students for paid research assistant positions running from February 1 to April 1, 2020. Successful applicants will…
By UMSU Executive Committee During the first half of 2019/2020, UMSU’s centennial year, we’ve been focused on two things: building on a number of different advocacy initiatives that have been underway since last year, and making UMSU more engaged with and responsive to the needs of its members and stakeholders going forward. Here’s what we’ve…
The biometrics requirement exemption for students already in Canada ended this week, the latest change in a series of updates from the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada government agency. International students, including those wishing to extend their permit, will now have to travel to one of the country’s 56 Service Canada locations to have their…
By Dermot Kelleher I first stepped foot in Canada in 1985, at the border crossing between Buffalo, New York and Niagara, Ontario. I was a visitor, attending a conference in Toronto by the cheapest possible route. The world was a much bigger place back then; I felt very much like a foreigner and a…
By UMSU Executive Committee This Friday marks the 30th anniversary of the École Polytechnique shooting in Montreal, carried out as an explicit attack on feminism. Despite hard fought progress towards gender equality in the three decades since, advances in women’s rights and personal safety remain fragile. Our shared interest depends on those very rights being…