The Canadian University Press, which occupied a lot of my time in the 1980s, has (finally) made its newswire public. The newswire collects stories from Canadian student newspapers, as well as coverage authored by CUP staff. The service, called Cupwire, also hosts an RSS feed (yay). CUP covers a lot of stories missed or only mentioned by mainstream media, such as Lansbridge University's loss of accreditation, the textbook rental program at U of T and UBC, and UVic's lip-dub video. CUP member newspapers are typically autonomous, which means they are run by the student staff themselves, with no oversight either from the Student Association or the University administration, and as such is one of the major bastions of the free press in Canada.
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