by OCC | Feb 12, 2013 | Campaigns
Dear Dr. Burry, Thank-you for your recent letter in response to our follow-up from our January 24th meeting. However, we were both confused and disappointed when we received it. It was very clearly stated and agreed upon during our meeting that the word ‘graduate’...
by OCC | Jan 30, 2013 | Campaigns
Student action works! In a recent meeting with the City of Ottawa, your GSA worked to have some of the exclusionary policies that had been put in place, changed. This means that your file should be reviewed again. If you have recently been rejected from qualifying for...
by OCC | Jan 29, 2013 | Campaigns
To recap, these are the action items from the meeting: 1) The City will actively seek out and contact all graduate students who may have been denied or misinformed about the child care fee subsidy. Both graduate students’ associations will distribute this...
by OCC | Jan 16, 2013 | Campaigns
Dear Mayor Watson and City Councillors, In a memo written earlier this week from Aaron Burry, General Manager of Community and Social Services, it was stated that graduate students continue to be eligible for childcare subsidies. This claim appears to contradict the...
by OCC | Jan 8, 2013 | Campaigns
Dear Mayor of Ottawa and City Councillors, As representatives of nearly 10,000 graduate students in the City of Ottawa, the Graduate Student Association of the University of Ottawa (GSAED) and the Carleton University Graduate Students’ Association were shocked to...
