Stephen Harper coming to McMaster today
08-03-2011 at 10:12 AM
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Stephen Harper coming to McMaster today
McMaster seems to be very quiet about this since there is no word in the Daily News section yet. Stephen Harper is coming to campus with 'an announcement' today and the media and protesters have already arrived. If you can, I'd come to campus today... looks like quite the show!
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08-03-2011 at 10:14 AM
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Damn, I haven't heard about this. I'm not in Hammy today, nooooo. :(
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08-03-2011 at 10:21 AM
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No one heard about it! I work in Mills, we found out this morning that he'd be coming later today. I think it was probably done that way to avoid a lot of the backlash that could have been organized.
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08-03-2011 at 10:30 AM
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Mac is known to be quite a Liberal campus. Like we saw with Igniatieff two years ago. Maybe Harper is trying to reconnect with the university turning it more 'conservative so to speak, since the liberals are not running things it ottawa.
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08-03-2011 at 10:34 AM
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He came to talk about some prestigious Science scholarship thing, which is worth $150 000 in total.
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08-03-2011 at 10:46 AM
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He came to talk about some prestigious Science scholarship thing, which is worth $150 000 in total.
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I wish I could get ahold of that kind of money. >_> |
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08-03-2011 at 10:48 AM
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Stephen Harper and the Conservatives shit on science, so he can take his appearance and stick it.
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08-03-2011 at 10:51 AM
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I wish I could get ahold of that kind of money. >_>
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Haha yeah I bet, me too. xD |
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08-03-2011 at 12:22 PM
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Here is a Spec article about it
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/ar...ip-cash-to-mac
So 6 students got $50,000 per year for 3 years? This is Canada - university doesn't cost that much. Wouldn't this scholarship be better spent split up to more people? |
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08-03-2011 at 12:29 PM
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It's the Vanier Graduate Scholarship:
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Student...erBESC_eng.asp
and it's value is 50,000. I'm fairly certain the money would be put towards funding research and not exclusively towards funding university studies.
I would think the more impressive thing, and perhaps the reason he came to mac was the fact that there were 6 recipients.
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08-03-2011 at 12:38 PM
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It's the Vanier Graduate Scholarship:
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Student...erBESC_eng.asp
and it's value is 50,000. I'm fairly certain the money would be put towards funding research and not exclusively towards funding university studies.
I would think the more impressive thing, and perhaps the reason he came to mac was the fact that there were 6 recipients. |
Oh okay. The Spec article makes it sound like each student would get like $50,000 cash/cheque per year. |
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08-03-2011 at 12:42 PM
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08-03-2011 at 01:05 PM
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I wish I could get ahold of that kind of money. >_>
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I'd vote for him if I got that.  |
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08-03-2011 at 01:07 PM
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Grad students getting money... fun stuff
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