Flashbacks: March 26, 2012
Flashbacks for the week of March 26, 2012.
News
March 26, 2012
Community gardens, horticultural therapy featured at Food Forum
The Agora hosted the Food Forum, a day-long event put on by the producers, vendors, and supporters of local food initiatives last week. The forum was host to displays from local organizations ranging from the Food Security Research Network to the Student Union’s Sustainability Initiative.
March 26, 2012
GI Files aim to expose misuse of intelligence
WikiLeaks, the online creation of now-house-arrested Julian Assange, started a new leg in its race for global governmental and corporate transparency.
March 26, 2012
Trudeau vs Brazeau
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau will challenge Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau to a boxing match at Ottawa’s Hampton Inn Convention Centre. The match is the main event of Fight for The Cure, an annual charity boxing event and fundraiser for the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation. Proceeds raised will go towards cancer research.
March 26, 2012
Lakehead’s literati gather
The English Students’ Association (ESA) hosted an Open Mic night in the Study on Mar. 16. The crowd grew until there was hardly an empty seat in the coffee shop. By the time performances had started, all in attendance were eager to experience the creative offerings of students and faculty. They were not disappointed.
March 26, 2012
Lakehead prof in climate change furor
Greenpeace has sent a letter to Lakehead President Brian Stevenson questioning a Lakehead professor’s ties to a conservative U.S. think tank, The Argus learned last week. The think tank, The Heartland Institute, runs public campaigns and lobbying efforts primarily directed at reducing government regulation and promoting free market solutions.
March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012
New beginnings
People from across the region, province, country, and North America gathered in the C.J. Saunders Fieldhouse to celebrate the kick-off to the Powwow season. The Lakehead University Native Student Association (LUNSA) hosted hundreds of guests at its annual Powwow during the weekend of Mar. 17 and 18. This year’s theme, New Beginnings, symbolizes what students have experienced and accomplished throughout the academic year.
March 26, 2012
Our shared future
Community and Aboriginal leaders, including 200 students, met Wednesday night in the Faculty Lounge to discuss current relationship between non-Aboriginals and Aboriginals in Thunder Bay. Present at this forum were keynote speakers Chief Peter Collins of the Fort William First Nation and LU President Dr. Brian Stevenson.
March 26, 2012
Foreign Affairs cautions gay and lesbian travellers
A Canadian travel advisory is warning LGBTQ travellers to practice caution while sightseeing in St. Petersburg after a new law criminalizing homosexual “propaganda” has been enacted in Russia’s historic city. This warning comes after local government passed a law that made publicized acts of sodomy, bisexualism, or lesbianism criminal offences.
March 26, 2012
Shootings in France target school children
France is currently engaged in what may be the largest manhunt in its entire history. A string of gun killings have been attributed to a single killer who struck at a children’s school in Toulouse last week. French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeared on national television to denounce the acts as “odious” and to promise that the perpetrator will be brought to justice.
March 26, 2012
Russia and China on board peace plan
Against a backdrop of intensifying conflict in Syria, Russia and China officially endorsed former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s peace plan last week. Annan has been appointed by both the United Nations and the Arab League to the office of special envoy to Syria. Annan had been tasked with helping to draft a plan for the resolution of hostilities between the government and opposition forces.
March 26, 2012
SASA sees success
Fresh off of their successful potluck dinner, the South Asian Student Association (SASA) held their second event on Mar. 9, which featured dinner and a movie.
March 19, 2012
Climbing for the cure
Fundraisers and awareness campaigns seem like they are very well-grounded these days – maybe a bit too well-grounded. You have walks, you have runs, you have walk-runs, but you almost never see an event that literally gets off the ground.
March 19, 2012
Fractures showing in Libyan unity
In 2011, the city of Benghazi was the turning point of the Libyan revolution. This year Benghazi may have already been the backdrop for a major turning point in Libyan history. Last week, regional and tribal leaders met in the city to declare autonomy for the region of Cyrenaica. Cyrenaica is a vast region constituting roughly one third of Libya’s surface and encompassing eighty per cent of its proven oil reserves.
March 19, 2012
“For the lives of those lost fighting for freedom”
Mohammad Sabri, member of the Lakehead Muslim Students Association (LUMSA), spoke at the March for Syria on Mar. 15 in the Agora. LUMSA hosted the event to raise awareness of the global effort to free Syrian civilians from a tyrannical government.
March 19, 2012
Meet Your Profs: Dr. Mohammed Nasir Uddin
Dr. Mohammed Nasir Uddin from the university’s Faculty of Engineering recently saw the opening of Arshed-Sajeda Primary School in his home village Gohailbari within the Rajbari District of Bangladesh. Dr. Uddin founded and funded the school through his charitable organization, the Dr. Nasir-Shahida Foundation, named after himself and his wife.
March 19, 2012
March 19, 2012
Putin re-elected
Russians went to the polls last week to decide their new president. Observers in Russia, as well as internationally, had predicted a decisive victory for Vladimir Putin, former president of two terms and prime minister at the time of election. Unsurprisingly, the election has borne these predictions out.
March 19, 2012
Federal government works towards suicide prevention strategy
This week, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health is deliberating Bill C-300, a private member’s bill titled “An Act Respecting a Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention.” This bill was put forward by Kitchener-Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht (Conservative), and seconded by Windsor-Tecumseh MP Joe Comartin (NDP). The bill is a culmination of efforts by MPs from all parties to tackle the issue of suicide over the past year, including a non-partisan motion by Liberal leader Bob Rae urging the government to establish a framework.
March 19, 2012
