Category: Community

  • The OHL recruits your son, what’s next?

    The OHL recruits your son, what’s next?

    Despite declining enrollment numbers in the sport of hockey there are still over 600,000 kids under the age of 15 who play hockey in Canada. This year alone there are over a thousand players eligible for the 2015 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection draft. Most hockey parents dream of seeing their son drafted to a…

  • Western Students look at Women and Work at Annual Conference

    Western Students look at Women and Work at Annual Conference

    About 30 people attended the ‘Carrying the Motherload: Women, Families and Work,’ conference Friday morning hosted by the Women’s Studies faculty at Western University. The annual conference switches topics each year, and this year’s theme was chosen by Gillian Demeyere, associate professor in women’s studies and the faculty of law. “It’s an area that’s of…

  • Student housing market spins up for a busy summer as studies wind down

    Student housing market spins up for a busy summer as studies wind down

    Worn out sofas litter boulevards, and U-Haul trucks crowd driveways and city lanes. Cars weighed down by mattresses weave in and out of traffic, and university towns across the province grow a little quieter… at least for a few months. Certain sights are an indication of the changing of seasons, as sure as the onset…

  • Canned festival to shine a light on journalism students’ work

    Canned festival to shine a light on journalism students’ work

    The last class of Western’s Master of Arts in Journalism program plans to finish the year on a high note next week with a festival celebrating the students’ best work. The Canned Festival will run all day Tuesday, April 14, during the journalism school’s last week of classes, in the studio on the second floor…