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ASC VOL.8 No.2
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
Life on Earth
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GREEN THUMBING IT ORGANIC INTHE 'WACK · By Christopher Bolster Cascade Writer •
Life on Earth played to a 300 person crowd at disorientation 2000 Sept. 8. The crowd swllled eight . kegs of Big Rock Brewery brew from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. CHRISTOPHERBOLSTER}_CASCADE
Student groups sa_yeducation funding forgotten By DarrenStewart OttawaBureau Chief OTT A WA (CUP) Student groups say funding for post-secondary schools was forgotten in a deal between the federal government and the provinces aimed at restoring billions of dollars to health care. "Education· seems to have completely fallen off the radar for the premieres," said Michael Conlon, chair of the Canadian Federation of Students.
The Agriscope Legacy Garden, a self-sustaining organic community garden on the Chilliwack campus, is one step closer to becoming a permanent UCFV fixture as it winds, up its first growing season. "Gardeners grew a variety of vegetables this summer: peas, bean·s, lettuce - all the vegetablesas well as annual flowers for cross-pollination," says Norma Senn, Director department. "It was a real of the. Agriculture success, we rented all 20 plots this summer." Garden plots are available at the Agriscope Legacy Garden for groups or individuals who want to grow t.heir own vegetables and flowers, or who just love to garden but don't have a place to plant one. Ms. Senn says that Ag department was 'very fortunate' to hire a student through the Summer Works program and hopes do the same for summers to come. The garden resulted from a proposal by Stephanie Cottell, a UCFV agriculture student.
The federal government agreed social issues in Canada are insepaMonday to increase Canada Health rably linked. and Social Transfer (CHST) funds to "Health care is but one issue," the provinces by $21.1 billion over he said. "And we didn't see any the next five years. Most premiers indication yesterday that education say the increased money will go is also priority. That's unfortunate."· towards improving the health care system, which has suffered alongConlon agreed, saying it was side other social programs since the nice to see new social spending, but federal government cut funding to .' he hopes there is more to come. the provinces in 1994. "The government has made it Mark Kissel, national director abundantly clear that it has the of the Canadian Alliance of Student resources to increase access to eduAssociations said he is concerned cation. In the early nineties there governments are forgetting that all political arguwere • some strong
See ORGANIC page 2. ments about debts and deficits that limited spending, but it's now time to step up our demands." There is widespread support in Canada for allocating more public money to education, he said. "The position we're advocating is not a particularly radical one," he said. "We're requesting, like the medical community did, that funding be replaced to 1994 levels which would allow give the provinces a substantial opportunity to do something about tuition." See FORGOTTEN page 5.
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