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In an open letter to the provincial minister of Advanced Education & Technology, the Engineering Students' Society at the University of Alberta has supported the implementation of tuition market modifiers to solve the $60-million University deficit.

Canada’s medical isotope shortage could be exacerbated in April when all five major international reactors will be shut down.

The Canadian National Research Universal Reactor and a reactor in the Netherlands together produce between 60 to 80 per cent of the world’s supply of medical isotopes, and both are now be shut down simultaneously.

The March march, fee feedback, and a rink query inquiry: all in this week's Council Forum.

In-camera session

On the evening of March 12, an employee of a business in SUB reported their belongings had been stolen from a back office. Campus 5-0 reviewed video footage of the area and observed of a male stealing the employee’s belongings. The recording was forwarded to EPS who are still investigating.

When University of Alberta PhD student Patrick Stemkowski started his undergraduate pharmacology degree, he was eventually hoping to pursue a career in a very different field — music.

But after five years of playing in metal bands, and at the same time working as a lab technician to support his passion, Stemkowski went back to school for graduate studies.

According to a report released by the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, after reaching record highs over the past summer, student unemployment rates are beginning to have an impact on the ability of students to access higher education.

MONTREAL (CUP) — Havoc broke out within minutes of Montreal’s 14th annual anti-police brutality march on Monday, resulting in about one hundred arrests.

WINNIPEG (CUP) — Even though the federal government refuses to reinstate millions of dollars in annual funding to the First Nations University of Canada, its Student Association president is saying she will continue to advocate for the survival of the school.

In a response to campus shootings such as at Virginia Tech, the University of Alberta is working on implementing a watch program they call the "Helping Individuals at Risk Policy."

Not long after the posters for the Students’ Union executive election posters come down, the campaign starts for students hoping to fill General Faculty Council and Students’ Council seats.

Students will have the opportunity to vote for their faculty’s representative for both bodies later this week, on March 18 and 19.