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HALIFAX (CUP) — The Atlantic provinces are reconsidering how they accommodate international students after a recent study revealed that those students net the four provinces millions in revenue.

TORONTO (CUP) — Five students were arrested on trespassing charges at Carleton University on October 4 for attempting to set up a controversial pro-life display.

Four of the students arrested were Carleton students, while the fifth was from Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

REGINA (CUP) — Hundreds of supporters roared, clapped, and shook signs in support of indigenous educational rights as part of a week-long campaign to raise support for First Nations students.

SASKATOON (CUP) — Ammy Murray entered law school in 2007 with a lot on her plate.

The young mother of two had a husband entering graduate school at the University of Saskatchewan and a three-month-old infant who was too young to qualify for one of the 110 daycare spots on campus.

The United States needs to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said prominent activist and journalist Gideon Levy during a speech at the University of Alberta last Friday.

MONTREAL (CUP) — Activists are asking Concordia University students to pay only $1 of their tuition before the September 30 deadline as a way to send a message to the administration.

OTTAWA (CUP) — A new report from a national education think-tank suggests students are shouldering higher debt loads than ever before and are facing much greater financial disadvantages as graduates.

According to the results outlined in the report by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), the average debt for graduates more than doubled between 1990 and 2000.

Students should become engaged in global citizenship and civil society, said Canadian activist Stephen Lewis in a speech last Friday at the University of Alberta.

"Those of us who are still able to function and take positions and be engaged in international development, we have to do it with ever greater energy," Lewis said.

OTTAWA (CUP) — The average Canadian full-time student will pay $5,138 in tuition fees this year, a four-per-cent increase from last year, according to a Statistics Canada report released earlier this month.

TORONTO (CUP) — For the first time this fall, students will have an alternative method of obtaining their books, as textbook rental programs are launched at a few universities across Canada.