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News, Analysis and Opinion By E.P. Chant, Managing Editor, The Scene/Student Publications I was hoping this was a very premature April Fool’s Day joke when it popped up on OPSEU’s webpage a day or two ago, but apparently not. It’s real: The…

Patty Hajdu, the federal Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, used the backdrop of St. Clair’s Ford Centre for Excellence in Manufacturing (FCEM) today (January 24) to make a funding announcement that will thrill “mature…

Last January, gigantic slab cakes were rolled into the cafeteria – and for a party at the Centre for the Arts too – to kick off St. Clair’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 2017. Today – January 23, 2018 – a big cake was also the featured…

Contributed by Ted Beale of the Athletics Department St. Clair College has lost an important piece of its history with the passing of Mason MacDonald on January 14 at the age of 90. Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, he came to Windsor in 1958 to become…

On Wednesday, January 24, you’ll have the opportunity to act upon your chief purpose for attending college: namely, launching your career. The 19th annual St. Clair College/University of Windsor Job Fair will take place that day. It is the…

As part of a Cabinet shuffle reflecting the impending, pre-June-election retirements of many Liberal veterans, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has named a new Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development. Mitzie Hunter, the MPP for the…

Contributed by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development Ontario is making it easier for students receiving OSAP to plan, budget and pay for their college or university education. For the first time, students applying to college or…

A new unionized group of workers will be created within the Ontario college system, now that part-time support staffers have voted to join the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). OPSEU already has long represented full-time support…

Contributed by Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) ART CONTEST For the fifth year in a row, Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) is looking to showcase student talent on the walls of the association’s national office at the Chateau Laurier in…

The Student Representative Council (SRC) is staging its pre-exam "Stress Less Fest" all this week, to ease students' anxiety as they cram for the wrap-up of the first semester. Today the council was offering adult colouring material from its both…