Final Exam

Hello All,

To clarify, the final exam is open book. It will be cumulative, including everything from the beginning of the semester, all readings, and guest speakers. It will be roughly the same format as the midterm. It is worth 40% of your final mark.

Good Luck!

The link below is the elaboration of the presentation given by your classmate Dan Morriseau. The ideas expressed in this document are those belonging independently to Mr.Morriseau and will not be commented on further by Prof. Sioui or the Program of Aboriginal Studies.

Please feel free to comment here on what you have read. This space is to foster ideas, debates and communication. However, please do be respectful with your language and comments to the author and others. Or if you do not wish to share your comments publicly, please feel free to contact Mr. Morriseau.

Propaganda

Final Exam For EAS 1101

When: Dec 21st, 2010.
What Time: 7-10pm
Where: FXT 147.

Monday course schedule in effect on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Last spring, the University of Ottawa Senate approved a fall study break for all undergraduate students in a bachelor’s program and all graduate students. In 2010, the fall study break took place from October 25 to 29.

In order to accommodate this fall break, greatly supported and sought after by the student population, we had to make some changes to the University’s course schedule. Because Monday classes are often cancelled due to statutory holidays, we have had to add an additional day of Monday classes at the end of the fall session to ensure the minimum required number of classroom hours for each course is offered.
As a result, all classes that were to have taken place on Wednesday, December 8, 2010, are cancelled and replaced with the courses that normally take place on Mondays. This is what it means to you:
· Any classes you have scheduled for Wednesday, December 8, 2010, are cancelled.

· Any classes you have on Monday, December 6, 2010, will be given again on Wednesday, December 8, at the same time and in the same location as on Mondays.

This change applies to all courses and sections without exception.
An email will also be sent to all students advising them of the December 8 change to their schedule. If any of your students have questions about this change, please ask them to contact their faculty’s undergraduate or graduate studies office.
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What this means for EAS 1101:

Class on Wednesday Dec. 8th will be held from 10-11:30am in MNT 207.

BIll C-311 (Climate Change Accountability Act) Defeated in Senate

BIll C-311 (Climate Change Accountability Act) Defeated in Senate

This is a big step back for our Mother Earth. It is very sad for thoughtful and compromised people living on Turtle Island.

Please read below,

Jallalla!
Marcelo

Prof. Marcelo Saavedra-Vargas
Programme d'études autochtones/Program of Aboriginal Studies
Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa
(613) 562-5800, poste/ext. 1165
msaavedr@uOttawa.ca

Some very sad news. Tonight [Tuesday Nov. 16th] the country’s only federal climate change legislation in Parliament, the Climate Change Accountability Act, was defeated in the Senate 43 to 32.

What happened? In an unprecedented move, the Conservatives called for a surprise vote on Bill C-311 in the Senate while many Liberal Senators were missing. While that isn’t a first, the fact that the bill was called for a vote before any debate or consideration could be held is unprecedented. Conservative Senators were ordered not to speak to the bill during the 193 days it was in the Senate, and even the Conservative Speaker of the Senate was told to vote against the bill (when the Speaker’s role is to vote to continue debate in the case of a tie).

Needless to say, it’s incredibly undemocratic of an appointed Senate to kill a bill passed by a majority of elected MPs, representing two-thirds of Canadians, without even giving it due consideration or debate. It’s also colossally hypocritical of Harper to use the unelected Liberal Senate to kill bills passed by our democratically-elected House, when he has spent most of his political career railing against this very tactic.

Tomorrow at 11am, Bruce Hyer will join Jack Layton and others in front of the doors to the Senate to hold a press conference. Any of you in Ottawa are invited to attend.

What does this mean? Canada now heads to the UN climate change negotiations in Cancun without a single law on the books or bill in Parliament tackling greenhouse gas pollution. Worse, all the work thousands of Canadians across the country have done to advance this climate legislation and the climate cause federally is put on hold. Rest assured, however, that it will only be a delay of a couple of years: we passed this climate bill through the House twice already, and will pass climate legislation through the House again after the next election if necessary. The education campaigns people have held are a solid foundation to build on, and we will win eventually. We must.

What can we do? Tell everyone you know about what happened here, and why it’s important. Make some noise. Write in your blogs, in your newsletters, or contact the media. Politicians only change their behaviour if there is a cost to doing things the same. So far, they are hoping this assault on our future will go unnoticed. Let’s prove them wrong.

(Courtesy of Andy Blair Legislative Assistant │ Adjoint législatif)

follow the links here http://www.parl.gc.ca/ to contact your MP, your PM, the opposition..

before Cancun we've got to make some noise.

Ottawa Premiere of the documentary film: 3rd World Canada

Nov. 30th, 2010 at the National Arts Centre

Public Screening & Panel discussion: 7:30 P.M. Tickets: $18.00
Paypal online or reserve & pay at the door

RSVP strongly recommended

(Toronto event at the ROM was sold out)
andree@andreecazabon.ca (613) 755-5315

Engage with National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo,
Participants in the film from remote Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (K.I.), and Gemini-nominee local filmmaker, Andrée Cazabon

An invitation to all Canadians to support the reconciliation movement and close the gap in standards of living

Parts of proceeds to go to:
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and ONEXONE breakfast program

Through intimate testimonies, ‘Third World Canada’ reveals an impoverished First Nations community and its struggles to care for eight children left behind by their parents’ suicides. A catalyst for wholesale rethinking, this film has the power to sow the seeds of reconciliation and renewal and engage with Canadians.

Reserve Tickets Online at: www.thirdworldcanada.ca/ottawa-premiere

Click Here to View Poster

Indian Taco Sale

There will be an Indian Taco sale in the basement of UCU (near the Campus
Bookstore) on Thursday, November 11, 2010 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Each Indian Taco will be $5 and a pop for $1.

The proceeds will go towards fundraising for a Spring Pow Wow on campus.

So, next week, come on down and grab a taco!!

(Courtesy of the Aboriginal Resource Centre (ARC))