Staff cleaners were responsible for clearing out the Occupy McMaster area last week. An investigation conducted by McMaster Security Services, prompted by a theft report, found that cleaners had thrown away furniture, blankets, promotional materials and other items from the couch space in the corner of the student centre. According to Security Services Staff Sergeant […]
This morning, Minister of Economic Development and Innovation Brad Duguid announced the opening of a $90 million IBM data centre in Barrie. The new facility will support a $210 million research and development project launched in partnership between IBM Canada, seven universities including McMaster and the government of Ontario. The data centre allows IBM to […]
When members of Occupy McMaster arrived at their space in the corner of the Student Centre on Tuesday, Sept. 18, they didn’t know what had happened. Lori Diamond, administrative director of the Student Centre, didn’t know either. Siobhan Stewart, president of the McMaster Students Union, said she saw that Occupy was still set up in […]
I don’t know who took Occupy McMaster’s stuff. Student Centre administration says they’re not responsible, and Security Services is still looking into the matter. But whoever effectively evicted Occupy McMaster from the student centre did it in a planned and deliberate manner. The one-year anniversary of Occupy’s parent movement, Occupy Wall Street, was the day […]
According to a prominent trade magazine in the U.S., Hamilton now leads Canadian cities in new industrial and commercial projects. Site Selection Magazine in Atlanta reports that Hamilton generated the highest number of expansion projects during the past year that have drawn at least $1 million, created at least 50 new jobs, or made use […]
Ryan Sparrow The Silhouette Questions are being raised with the quality and fairness of a new joint McMaster-Mohawk agreement. A new program has been launched between Mohawk College and McMaster’s Faculty of Social Sciences. Mohawk says about 10% of their student population are university graduates looking to top up their undergraduate degree with a one-year […]
Former prime minister of Canada Jean Chretien was at McMaster Innovation Park on Tuesday morning to speak about global water issues. The event was a book launch for The Global Water Crisis: Addressing an Urgent Security Issue, a publication from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). The book was produced alongside the […]
Physiological At the bottom of the pyramid, we find the most basic, physical needs of humans: breathing, food, drink, sleep and sex. Lucky for you, McMaster makes it easy for you to fulfill most, if not all, of them. Breathing: Mac is conveniently located on the planet Earth, known for its abundance of oxygen. If […]
Farzeen Foda Senior News Editor The theme of 2012 in the post-secondary sphere has been the transformation of education. Much of this stems from the fact that the traditional model of post-secondary education, it seems, too often produces textbook thinkers that can read, memorize and regurgitate, which is hardly suitable to real-world settings. McMaster’s […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor While McMaster has devoted copious funds to maintaining its education model, it has remained relatively unchanged for a hundred years. McMaster was founded in 1881 as Toronto Baptist College by William McMaster, the first president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, who bequeathed a substantial amount of capital to […]
