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The movement is still new, but the coalition of student union societies already has high hopes Tuition has more than doubled for the future - they hope to see over the last decade, and govern- the B.C. government waive interest on student loans, reinstate ment funding to post-secondary education has fallen by almo~t 10 ·a needs-based grant system for students with no funding availper cent. This is where "Where's the Funding" steps in, which is able to them, and make an overall a campaign organized by thE_! increase to core funding for postStudent Labour Action Project secondary ·institutions. In short, they want the government to take (SLAP) and United States Student Association (USSA) that's seek- financial pressure off students. As Nickelchok said, "We'd like ing more funding for students. The campaign got off the ground . to see operating grants increase in the Lower Maintland this past to meet the actual need of our inSeptember with the involvement stitutions." Students are painfully of the UBC, UVic and SFU student aware that over the last decade union societies, and has since ex- the cost of living and schooling panded to include student unions has skyrocketed - it is the goal of from Langara, Capilano, and UFV. WTF to ensure that students don't "With rising demand for higher have to deal with that entirely by themselves. education and current economic trends, colleges and universities SUS and WTF hope to start ramping up awareness in the are being stretched beyond their limits," explained Kate Nickel- winter semester with events and chok, Vice President Academic petitions. For now, their main at UFV's Student Union Society. focus is on a letter-writing campaign to Naomi Yamamoto, B.C.'s "We are ... committed to working Minister of Advanced Education together to improve the condition of post-secondary [education] in they hope that if the government
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sees individual students speaking out, they can, as a whole, encourage the making of changes. "The reality of post-secondary education in B.C won't change through engaging any one person alone," said Nickelchok. "WTF is about amplifying student demands and getting our voices heard in B.C., not letting [post-secondary education] fall off the provincial government's radar." Every student has heard or experienced the horror stories of working multiple jobs and still struggling to pay for rent and school. Nickelchok herself has "lived. the stereotype of a penniless student - living off ramen noodles." "To me, though," she added, "the most horrifying stories are of individuals who simply never got to campus, because they [were]· never ... able fo commit to a postsecond·ary education. They simply never got the chance. Being from a lower-income background shouldn't be a debilitating reason for not pursuing higher education."
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armykillshope: femalepresiNewYorkpoliceevictanti-Wall Street Egypt dentialcandidate protesters Wearing helmetsandwielding batons,NewYork police evicted Occupy WallStreetprotesters from a parkearlyonTuesday, twomonths afterthey setupcampandsparked a national movement againsteconomic inequality. . Hundreds ofpolicedismantled theseaoftents, tarps,outdoor furniture, mattresses andprotests signsatZuccotti Park,arresting 147people, inclµding abouta dozenwhohadchained themselves toeachotherandtotrees. Asconfused andangryprotesters triedtowork sanit~tion workers labored outhowto regroup, thro~gh thenighttoclearawaymounds oftrash fromtheprivately ownedparkwherehundreds of peoplehadcamped. NewYork CityMayor Michael Bloomberg andthe parkowners, commercial realestatecorporation Brookfield Office Properties, haddecided thatthe protesters hadbecome a healthandfiresafety hazard tothemselves andthelocalcommunity. "Protesters havehadtwomonths to occupy the parkwithtentsandsleeping bags.Nowtheywm havetooccupy thespacewiththepoweroftheir arguments;' Bloomberg saidina statement, addingthatthesituation hadbecome intolerable. Thestenchofurineandexcrement hadattimes waftedacrosspartsofthepark,whereflower bedshadbeentrampled. Authorities andprotesterssaidtherehadbeenreportsofsexualassaults, theftsanddrugdealing.
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TheEgyptian military isstifling hopeforchangeand cannotbetrustedtomanage thecountry's transition todemocracy, thenation's firstfemalepresidential candidate saidTuesday. Shealsosaidshewasveryconcerned a military general wasinthepresidential race. "They announced atthebeginning thatthepresidential election willbeinApril 2012...andnowtheyannounce Kamel, Egyptian thatitwillbein2013;'Bothaina presidential candidate toldReuters bytelephone. "Wecan'ttrustthe(military) ...Theykillallofourhope;' saidKamel, whoiscampaigning ona platform tofight corruption andreduce poverty. Kamel wasspeaking fromStrasbourg, whereshe attended a hearing attheEuropean Parliament on progress inEgypt following theoverthrow ofHosni Mubarak whoruledforthreedecades. Topgenerals initially saidtheywouldrelinquish powersixmonths afterthepopular uprising, buthave extended thetransition periodtoallowpolitical parties tobuildsupportbeforeelections. Parliamentary elections arescheduled forNovember 28andpresidential elections eitherattheendof2012 or2013. Kamel voiced concern FieldMarshal Hussein Tantawi wouldalsostandforpresident.
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Hackers eyeCanada business: study
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Feds consider harsher sentences Wheat Board urges Canada lawmakersto keepmonopoly despite fallingcrimerates
Withbothserious andpettycrimedropping Hackers attacking Canadian organizations are determined tomakemoney intargeted campaigns steadily inCanada overthelastdecade, according to Statistics Canada, manyarechallenging the whilegovernment insiders stolemoredatathan intensefocusonimprisoneverbefore, a security studyreleased onTuesday federalgovernment's inglaw-breakers. showed. BillC-10, entitledthe"SafeStreetsandComThenumberofbreaches inCanada andthecost munities Act;'isanomnibus billcomposed of ofdealing withthemhavespiked sincethe2008 financial crisis, according toa jointstudyfromtele- riinedifferent billsthatdiedinParliament before comcompany Telus andtheUniversity ofToronto's theMay2election wascalled. Itincludes harsher Rotman School ofManagement mandatory minimum sentences foroffences such Thestudy,itsfourthannualreport, saidthecrisis asdrugpossession, aswellasextended possible hadbothpressured budgets forinformation secu- maximum sentences. rityandcreated a darker"threat environment:' Italsoincludes measures dealing withthesexual Theaverage Canadian public company suffered 18 exploitation ofminors, youngoffenders andthe breaches in2011,upfromlessthan12breaches pardons process. Mostofthemeasures inthe ayearearlier, thestudyfound.Government billincrease thepunitive powers ofthecriminal bodies wereabletoreverse thetrendofincreasing justicesystem. breaches; therewerejustover17thisyearaftera "Thebillwilldolittleto helpcrimeratesandwill spike above22lastyear. bea costlymeasure thattheprovinces willhave Butinsider breaches, whereanemployee deliber- to payfor;'Pardon Society ofCanada Chairperson Ainsley Muller wroteinane·mail. "Inreality atelyaccesses conficjential information, spiked in arealready overcrowded. Thebill thegovernment sectordespite falling inpublic and ... prisons presents a hugeburden foralready cash-strapped private companies. Forty-two percent ofbreaches ingovernment were provinces:' TheParliamentary Budget Office estimates the perpetuated byinsiders, which theresearchers andterritories between called "themoststartling finding fromtheresearch:' billwillcostprovinces overthenextfiveyears,which Sophisticated attacks arefocused onindividuals and $6and$10billion theirdataandoftenseeka continuing information winamounttoaboutthreequarters ofthecost stream forfinancial orpolitical gain,thestudysaid. ofthebill,according totheJphnHoward Society "These attacks arereported lessfrequently asthey ofManitoba. aremuchharder todetectandofteninvolve much longer Tannara Yelland - CUP Prairies timeframes;' thestudy's authors wrote. &Northern Bureau Chief Reuters
Supporters oftheCanadian WheatBoard took theirprotestto Parliament HillinOttawa onTuesday,ina last-ditch effortto swaylegislators to keeptheworld's lastmajoragricultural monopoly. Several WheatBoard directors, aswellasa few Prairie grainfarmers, urgedtheConservative government to dropplanstoendtheCW B's marketing monopoly onWestern Canadian wheat andbarleydestined formilling orexport. Legislation toendthemonopoly asofAugust2012wouldallowwesternfarmers tosell_grain directly tograinhandlers, andmaybeonlya few weeksfrombecoming law. "Eliminating theCanadian WheatBoard willcost Prairie farmers money, costCanadian jobs,bea drainontaxpayers andchangethenatureofthe country because thousands offamily farmswill disappear;' CWB Chairman Allen Obergsaidin Ottawa. AWheatBoard spokeswoman saidthedirectors planned to meetwithmembers ofParliament and senators thisweekinOttawa. TheCWB monopoly, whichhasbeeninplacesince World WarII,haslongdivided western farmers. Supporters saythemonopoly's marketing clout offersthemthegreatestreturns, butotherssay theywantthesameflexibility inselling wheat andbarleythattheyhavewithcropslikecanola andoats.
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