By: Samuel Midkiff The Confederation Bridge opened to the public on May 31, 1997 and cost $1.6 billion in public money. (Getty Images) Allow me to tell you the tale of two separate bridges, one in Quebec and the other […]
By: The Cadre Editorial Board Before reading our report cards, check out our rubric here. Looking for another report card? Find them here: President (here), Vice President Academic and External (here), and Vice President Finance (here). Sarah MacEachern Grade: A There […]
By: The Cadre Editorial Board Before reading our report cards, check out our rubric here. Looking for another report card? Find them here: President (here), Vice President Academic and External (here), and Vice President Student Life (here). John Ployer Grade: C […]
By: The Cadre Editorial Board Before reading our report cards, check out our rubric here. Looking for another report card? Find them here: Vice President Academic and External (here), Vice President Finance (here), and Vice President Student Life (here). William McGuigan […]
By: Samuel Midkiff Photo by: Centre for Research Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) It’s a plague that has devastated the American political scene, and one that is creeping into our federal and provincial politics: hyper-partisanship. It’s the political disease in which politicians […]
By: The Cadre Editorial Board Before reading our report cards, check out our rubric here. Looking for another report card? Find them here: President (here), Vice President Finance (here), and Vice President Student Life (here). Emma Drake Grade: A This year’s […]
By: Allison O’Brien The Fox and Crow’s peppermint mocha versus Tim Horton’s candy cane mocha. (Allison O’Brien) It feels like just days since I reviewed the Tim Hortons and Fox and Crow PSL. That was back in October, when I […]
By: Tony Davis You know how modern medicine has pretty much eliminated a handful of horrible illnesses with vaccines? Immunization is the reason smallpox has been wiped off the planet. Measles and whooping cough have taken a beating, along with diphtheria, an […]
By: Allison O’Brien In Atlantic Canada, several universities such as Dalhousie, Saint Mary’s University, the University of New Brunswick, Acadia, Mount Saint Vincent University, and St. Thomas University have all adopted the Fall Reading Week. The concept isn’t currently being […]
By: Lyndsay Charlton There is a problem in Prince Edward Island that often goes unseen. It may start modestly like waking up at noon to avoid breakfast, and then it turns into missing meals altogether. Food insecurity is something that […]
By: Colton Profitt Here’s the thing. The common belief that “nursing students just don’t care,†which I myself have fallen victim to saying, can not be anything further from the truth. This letter will hopefully help shift your mindset to […]
By: Tony Davis While working for a local paper on an internship this summer, I sat in a room amongst citizens concerned their hospital had been repeatedly shut down, requiring them to drive an hour or more for adequate emergency […]
By: Chelsea Perry Ah, the long anticipated day has arrived. The prohibition has ended. Belvedere Ave. is backed up with eager buyers. Canadians are friendlier than ever before. #LegalizationDay is trending on Twitter, and apparently so is #CDay. (Who thought […]
By: Ann Harvey Ann is an English literature student at UPEI with over thirty years of experience in journalism. Her column, At UPEI, addresses several topics related to UPEI. Recently, a friend, a mature student, told me a young woman had […]
By: John Ployer Editor’s Note: John Ployer is the business manager of The Cadre and the Vice President Finance and Administration of the UPEISU. Ployer was invited by The Cadre to write this article, however, we wish to  remind readers that […]
By: Ann Harvey Ann is an English literature student at UPEI with over thirty years of experience in journalism. Her column, At UPEI, will address several topics related to UPEI. Children watch all things, Zen masters always in now, Joyfully content. […]
By: Allison O’Brien Today is October 1, otherwise known as National Pumpkin Spice Day. Take a look around you. How many people do you see wearing blankets as scarves? How many people have you heard mention that the sun is […]
From what I understand, the Student Union is meant as a body to represent the students before the university’s chairs of departments as well as the president. As such, I would like to lodge a complaint that hopefully the Student […]
By: Allison O’Brien Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will go before the Senate judiciary committee on September 24 to testify that he is innocent amidst an accusation of sexual assault. The Facts The claim comes from Christine Blasey Ford, an […]
By: Allison O’Brien When I was a first year student, I often went months at a time without checking my bank account. I was scared to look at the money that I was spending and the debt that I was […]
By: Chelsea Perry Consent. A small word, yet one that carries so much weight that the UPEISU dedicates a whole week to it. Entire organizations are established on it. Our daily interactions, our relationships, our jobs, our studies, and our […]
Dear fellow students, I am an English major in my final year. I am writing a series of letters about environmental concerns to corporations and members of government, and I am writing to you to ask for help in creating […]
By: Nick Scott When I saw the Cadre article on the “2018 UPEISU ELECTION PROFILES†I was excited to read it. While I’m familiar with most of the candidates, being out of the country for the whole semester, I haven’t […]
By: Allison O’Brien This Sunday, the New England Patriots will face off against the Philadelphia Eagles in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the 52nd Superbowl. Americans across the country will be gathering in their living rooms to eat cheesy foods and their […]
Growing up, I was always preached to about eating the daily intake of fresh fruits that was prescribed to me not only by Canada’s Food Guide but also by my parents. They told me tall tales of princesses who gained […]
By: Samuel Midkiff When Ottawa announced that they were planning to legalize marijuana, they initially planned to split the tax revenue 50-50 between the federal and provincial governments. They have since offered a greater revenue share to the provinces, but […]
This is the question I asked myself as I watched a room of 30 people basically rubber stamp the financials of a student organization. Each year the Union executives present audited financial statements to Council. Last year, Council spent more […]
On December 11th, The Cadre published “Letter to the Editor: Just the Facts, Ma’am.†The authors, Kathleen Mawhinney and Sarah MacDonald, identified their perceived issues with The Cadre’s 2017-2018 executive report cards and requested they be retracted. The Cadre will […]
Recently UPEI’s student newspaper The Cadre released report cards evaluating the individual performances of the UPEISU Executive team. The Cadre intended these report cards to provide transparent feedback to the student body about the job performance of those we voted […]
Before reading our report cards, check out our rubric here. Looking for another report card? Find them here: President (here), Vice President Academic & External (here), and Vice President Student Life (here). William McGuigan Grade: B- Vice President Finance William McGuigan […]
Before reading our report cards, check out our rubric here. Looking for another report card? Find them here: President (here), Vice President Academic & External (here), and Vice President Finance (here). Megan Rix Grade: C Of all the executives this year, […]
Before reading our report cards, check out our rubric here. Looking for another report card? Find them here: President (here), Vice President Student Life (here), and Vice President Finance (here). Taya Nabuurs Grade: A The role of Vice President Academic and […]
Before reading our report cards, check out our rubric here. Looking for another report card? Find them here: Vice President Academic & External (here), Vice President Student Life (here), and Vice President Finance (here). Hammad Ahmed Grade: D+ Hammad Ahmed was the […]
“I can’t believe 2017 is almost over,†people whisper while Mariah Carey blasts her Christmas tunes over the speakers at Starbucks. “Where did the year even go?†As The Cadre prepares to wrap things up for the year next week, […]
We are fresh out of a long weekend, and I’m not sure about you, but I’m not feeling too refreshed. We had two days off this week to catch our breath before we head into final exam season, and here […]
My least favourite question, besides, “Hey, wanna go to the bar this weekend?†(hey introverts) is “What year are you in at UPEI?†It forces me to go through the grueling process of explaining my messy, extended undergraduate degree to […]
I’m a feminist, and I am not in love with contraception. The patch, shot, and especially the pill have been iconic of the feminist movement since the mid-twentieth century when the first hormonal contraception was developed by Margaret Sanger and […]
Varsity sports have various supporters, good attendance, and ample coverage from UPEI. Club Sports, although they are just as competitive as Varsity teams, are not given the same amount of promotion and funding. I should know, I play for the […]
UPEI’s campus pub, The Wave, has been in operation since 2002. Over the years, students have seen it rise and fall over and over again. In an article posted by the Cadre in 2014, the writer claimed the Wave was […]
This past May, I traveled to Italy to participate in a UPEI religious studies course called “Rome: Christianity and Culture.†I, along with nine other students and two professors lived and studied in Rome, Italy for three weeks. This global […]
It’s very refreshing to have many systems that enhance daily student experiences here at UPEI. With utilities such as Onesearch, Moodle, and MyUPEI, we are well equipped with services for having great success during any given semester. The black sheep […]
Everyone needs to calm down, take a deep breath, and remember we are in a transition period. Okay sure, using myUPEI for 2017 Summer Registration was a little hectic and confusing. But to accuse the university of neglecting to give […]
Student Union elections are coming up on March 7th and 8th and will be available in your campus login. Some may cast this aside as unimportant in their already overstressed student life. I am writing this to urge every UPEI […]
There are two days in the year when students are actually excited to log into their Campus Login: regular semester registration day (which happens at the end of May) and summer semester registration day (which is at the end of […]
By: Morin Mawhinney As many of you (hopefully) know, the Student Union Election Debate was held last night at the Wave. Many of you are also probably wondering where the formal coverage of said debate is, and I promise it’s […]
By: Uzoamaka Okafor Growing up, I had always been excited about being an adult, being free, doing my own thing, no one telling me what to do,  and just living life the way I wanted. As my graduation day approaches, I […]
By: Lorelei Kenny UPEI officially opened the new School of Sustainable Design Engineering The new School of Sustainable Design Engineering opened in September 2016. The expansion of UPEI’s engineering program provides engineering students with a hands-on, project-based, team-oriented learning […]
As some of you may be aware, President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on December 3, the first communication between top officials from the US and Taiwan for nearly four decades. Of course, many were immediately troubled […]
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