The Audain Art Museum has officially been incorporated as a registered non-profit as part of efforts to establish the cultural facility in Whistler. At the same time municipal officials are working on efforts in the resort to address land-related issues
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The eviction of roughly three-dozen people from a homeless encampment behind the YMCA has been called off, at least for the time being.
“We came together today and the city did not proceed to remove anyone under the parking lot,” said Marie Pollock, a member of the Poverty and Housing Advocacy Coalition. “It was supposed to take place but it didn’t. They changed their mind.”
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Pollock said police and bylaw officers were on hand Wednesday, along with a pair of trucks, presumably to move the people staying behind the Y to another location.
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The eviction of roughly three-dozen people from a homeless encampment behind the YMCA has been called off, at least for the time being.
“We came together today and the city did not proceed to remove anyone under the parking lot,” said Marie Pollock, a member of the Poverty and Housing Advocacy Coalition. “It was supposed to take place but it didn’t. They changed their mind.”
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Pollock said police and bylaw officers were on hand Wednesday, along with a pair of trucks, presumably to move the people staying behind the Y to another location.
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Former members of the Laurentian board of governors say a series of unpredictable events created a “perfect storm” that drove the university deeper into debt.
In a letter sent to Shelley Tapp, deputy minister of colleges and universities, the members point to the 2017 withdrawal of Saudi students over a foreign policy dispute as the first unforeseen setback.
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Each of these 137 students, they note, paid up to $36,000 in tuition.
Two years later, the province cut domestic tuition, freezing it in 2020.
“Instead of domestic tuition going up by, say, six per cent over the last two years as would normally occur, it went down by 10 per cent,” the letter states. “That’s a gap of 16 per cent in only two years.”