Longtime green advocate David Suzuki of the David Suzuki Foundation was arrested late yesterday under the charge of “exceeding carbon allowance without a license” on the campus of McGill university.

“The size of his environmental footprint would startle the imagination,” noted environmental activist and policeman Joshua Weisman.

Police raided the offices of the Suzuki foundation after an anonymous tip suggesting that the recently noted five per cent rise in nationwide emissions was due to the volume of Suzuki’s comments on the environmental sins of the nation. “It was our understanding that the hot air that was the content of Suzuki’s many forays across the country were preventing Canada from meeting its commitments under Kyoto” said Weisman.

This week’s question

Do you think Men’s Spartans Basketball should have had to surrender three of their wins?

Judson Goodwin:
“It’s sad, but I don’t think they had a choice.”

Jordan Tabula:
“I don’t really follow Spartans Basketball”

Evan Day:
“It’s the school’s mistake; the players shouldn’t have to suffer.”

Chris Clarke:
“I have no clue.”

Sam VanderVeer:
“Yes, I think it shows the school’s integrity.”

The Mel Smith Lecture Series has always been a forum for political discussion at TWU. In honour of its 10th anniversary, the series will feature another big political name, as former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein crosses provincial lines to speak at the lecture.

TWU hosts the lecture in honour of Mel Smith’s service to Canadian government and his contribution to TWU. “The lecture series keeps Smith’s legacy alive; he was passionate about integrity in government, and these lectures are a tribute to him,” said coordinator Wendy Lees.

Thrice

February 7, 2008, 7 PM
Tix $23 (plus service charges and fees) at
Ticketmaster. Tix also at Zulu and Scratch Records.
Croatian Cultural Centre (3250 Commercial)

Todd Snider

February 7, 2008, 9 PM
Tix $20 (plus service charge) at Zulu, Scratch, Red Cat, and Highlife Records.
He’s from Nashville.
Pat’s Pub (403 E. Hastings)

Feist

February 12, 2008, 7:30 PM
Tix $69/64/59 (plus service charges and fees) at
Ticketmaster.
The Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad presents Feist with guests Ron Sexsmith, Jorane, Leela Gilday, and Suzie McNeil.
Orpheum Theatre (Seymour & Smithe)

Course evaluations go online

MONTREAL (CUP) – After five years of student lobbying, McGill University has allowed students to see their course evaluation information online. However, an opt-out clause in the policy means many professors are holding back.

Mercury, the online course evaluation system in place at McGill, will be used to disseminate the results of course evaluations completed by students, replacing previously popular web sites like ratemyprofessor.com.

“This is big,” said Adrian Angus, vice president of university affairs at the Students’ Society of McGill University. “Now students are getting something they’ve never seen before.”

Local poet to speak at TWU

The English Department of Trinity Western University will be welcoming local poet Susan McCaslin for a poetry reading next Thursday, February 7.

At 1:10 PM in Block Hall, McCaslin, who is also a writer and educator at Simon Fraser University, will be giving a public reading and book signing as well as meeting with individual classes to discuss the art of poetry and its place in Christianity.

The Fort Langley resident has earned national attention for her work, winning numerous poetry awards. She has authored 11 volumes of poetry and edited numerous others. Her book Letters to William Blake garnered first place in the Mother Tongue Chapbook competition.

For those who didn’t already know, over the Christmas break a group of 30 former and current students from Trinity Western University choirs went to Ukraine to serve on a cross-cultural music missions trip. Those of us who went experienced a rich time in Kiev working alongside the Music Mission Kiev (MMK) staff and singing with the Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, witnessing the historic beauty of Kiev and building friendships with one another.

The McGill Daily (McGill University)

MONTREAL (CUP) With the 2010 Vancouver Olympics rapidly approaching, Aboriginal groups across Canada are protesting that the events will be held on unceded Salish, St’at’imc and Squamish territory.

The groups argue that the Olympics will wreak environmental and social destruction.

Activists Kanahus Pelkey and Dustin Johnson have embarked on a three-week speaking tour across the East Coast and Great Lakes entitled “No Olympics on Stolen Land.”

“By having the Olympics [outside Vancouver], it opens our land, our sacred sites, our medicine grounds,” Pelkey said.