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CAW and university reach agreement SELMA AL-SAMARRAI
SENIOR NEWS EDITOR
CAW Local 555, Unit 1 and the University have reached an agreement, eliminating the possibility of an administration strike. CAW Local 555 Unit 1 represents 2200 staff at McMaster University, which include the administrative and technical
support staff. Negotiations over the renewed contract began around April of 2009. Aug. 20 marked the end of the 21 days of negotiations where the university presented a final offer to the union. The union rejected the final offer with a 62 per cent vote on Sept. 2. This vote was followed by four consecutive days of negotiations on Sept. 16, 17, 18 and 21.
These negotiations lead to a tentative agreement where both sides of the bargaining table had to take the tentative agreement back to get an approval. CAW Local 555 Unit 1 took the tentative agreement back to the membership, who voted Sept. 29 and ratified the agreement with a 78 per cent vote in favour. The university took the agreement back to the remunerations committee,
which agreed to the tentative agreement. Items which were not involved in the dispute at the time of the final offer were not changed in the final agreement. Farquhar estimated those to be about 95 per cent of the contract. Some of the changes that were offered in
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Former Mac student gets 14 year sentence Saad Gaya pleads guilty to Toronto 18 terrorist plot
• PLEASE SEE MAJORITY, A3 SELMA AL-SAMARRAI
Welcoming powwow showcases culture and traditional dance at 20th celebration of MFNSA
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Tory Fisher (left) of Nipissing and Garry Sault (right), an elder of the Port Credit Mississauga Nation perform the traditional men’s dance at the celebration of the 20th anniversary of McMaster’s First Nations Student Association. For full story, see B7.
SENIOR NEWS EDITOR
A former McMaster University Science student, Saad Gaya, plead guilty on Sept. 28 to his involvement in the terrorist group, the Toronto 18. According to The Toronto Star, Gaya was a part of the Toronto 18 between March 1, 2006 and his arrest in May 2006. When Gaya was arrested, he was unloading 125 bags of ammonium nitrate, each 25 Kg, from a truck into a Newmarket storage facility where he and Saad Khalid, a fellow participant in the Toronto 18, were using the warehouse to store bomb-making fertilizer. The arrest was part of a massive police sweep which lead to the arrest of 14 men and four youths. Seven of those have had their charges stayed or were released on peace bonds, seven other are expected to stand in trial next year. The members of the Toronto 18 were reportedly connected with what federal authorities say was a plot to detonate a series of bombs in November 2006 in downtown Toronto and at an unnamed military base. Khalid was the first participant of the terrorist group to admit to the existence of a bombing plot and was sentenced to 14 years in jail after pleading guilty in May of 2009. Gaya is the fourth of the Toronto 18 terrorist group to be convicted. According to The Globe • PLEASE SEE GAYA, A5
Mental health facility to be built at St. Joseph’s
New facility will offer new job opportunities for McMaster students
LILY PANAMSKY
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
A plan for the construction of a new mental health facility at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton has recently been released. The current St. Joseph’s mental health facility, formally known as the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, will be completely renovated into this new facility. Construction is expected to begin in 2011 and to be completed
in 2014. The goal of the new facility is to reflect the changing views of mental illness and extend medical services to both inpatients—those who require in-hospital services— and outpatients—those who do not need to stay in the hospital. The facility is set to have 301 beds, but a greater emphasis will be placed on providing clinical service to outpatients. Some technologies the facility will offer
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diagnostic imaging, MRI scans, and ultrasounds. Funding for the project is given by the provincial government, which has been committed to investing in the redevelopment of psychiatric hospitals in Ontario. Dr. Robert Zipursky, chair of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, vice-president of the Mental Health and Addiction Services, and chief of psychiatry at St. Joseph’s Hospital, stated, “We want to build a hospital in a way that reflects the changing views of mental illness, that is, these are no longer rare illnesses that are untreatable… it’s important to psychiatry that psychiatric illnesses are treated as no different than any other type of medical illness; they just happen to involve the brain.” Dr. Zipursky quoted that as many as one out of two adults will have a significant mental illness at some point in their adult career, and one out of five children will have a mental illness during their child life. As McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Hospital are affiliated with each other, both undergraduate and graduate McMaster students will have the
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Conceptual renderings for the new mental health facility at St. Joseph’s hospital in downtown Hamilton. opportunity to engage in research and work at the new mental health facility. Dr. Zipursky explained: “The department of psychiatric and behavioural neuroscience from the medical school is actually based at that hospital. That’s where our home office is and that’s where the majority of our department sits, including most of our educational
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and research activities. And that’s where nursing students, medical students, social work [students], psychology [students]— undergraduate and graduate students—[will be] doing clinical work as well as research.” “It is very much a joint McMaster-St. Joseph’s effort in our psychiatry department.”
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