http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHzYZLlkzXw The video shows part of an on-going effort to take back the University, to serve the public interest. The Government is using the University to provide backdoor funding for the nuke and (indirectly) tar sands industries. Nancy Hopkins is the chair of the Board of Governors. She has been on the Cameco Board since 1992. […]
SENT: 2011-11-03 The second link is all in German. The first link has some translation but is somewhat disjointed? Hart – – do you have some time to take a look at it? It is the same story as at U of S, also at Virginia Tech – based on my experience at the hearings […]
The letter requests that the President be censured and that Nancy Hopkins, Chair of the Board of Governors, be asked to permanently step down from the Committee to select the next president of the University. To Board of Gov of U of S re President endorsement of Political candidate REPLY RECEIVED November 15th, from University […]
Just click on the link – Jeremy Rifkin. (A short first part is in French. Then it goes to English.) http://australiancannonball.com/2011/10/21/jeremy-rifkin-a-brighter-perspective-on-nuclear-industry-keep-watching-its-in-english/ Valuable for Canadians, and if you’re in Saskatchewan, it is critical information for voting in Nov 7 Election. Be clear: a vote for the status quo means we will have “small” nuclear reactors in Saskatchewan […]
For R-Town News Oct. 28, 2011 BY Jim Harding We could finish this election campaign without serious issues even being raised, which isn’t the way to practice democracy. One such issue is whether thousands of truckloads of highly radioactive nuclear wastes will be brought from Ontario’s nuclear plants to a nuclear dump in our north. […]
MacKinnon comment a conflict: prof By David Hutton, The StarPhoenix October 28, 2011 University of Saskatchewan President Peter MacKinnon delivers an address to grads at fall convocation, October 22. Photograph by: Greg Pender, The StarPhoenix A University of Saskatchewan professor says president Peter MacKinnon’s endorsement of Saskatchewan Party candidate Rob Norris in a campaign brochure […]
The 99% march in Occupy Saskatoon by Laura Alford on October 19, 2011 in News Protestors demonstrate their solidarity with a global movement as they walk the streets of Saskatoon. (More pictures below.) More than 400 protesters in Saskatoon marched from the University Bridge to Friendship Park in a show of solidarity with the Occupy […]
By Rory MacLean, The StarPhoenix October 17, 2011 Competing visions of democracy and education clashed at a lively University of Saskatchewan senate meeting Saturday. The meeting was attended by a group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Saskatoon movement who are critical of the corporate ties among the university’s leadership, particularly those relating to the […]
(Business section, link no longer valid) By Rory MacLean, The StarPhoenix October 11, 2011 University of Saskatchewan senators who this summer called for the board of governors chair to resign because of her ties to Cameco Corp. are now saying the senate itself has a democratic deficit. They formed the group University Senators in Saskatchewan […]
Chiefs undermined http://www.thestarphoenix.com/opinion/letters/Chiefs+undermined/5509636/story.html By Martha Kashap, The StarPhoenix October 6, 2011 The StarPhoenix is biased, and aids and abets the government and the nuclear industry. Recent articles concerning the government and the affairs of SIGA cast aspersions on the competency of the First Nations leaders and were condescending to treaty Indians. These reports come […]