CUSID crowned new National Champions at Dalhousie University this past week. Congratulations to Monica Ferris and Jon Laxer of the University of Toronto’s Hart House Debating Club, who defeated Paul-Erik Dash Veel and the National Best Speaker Richard Lizius, also from Hart House, in a debate on laws pertaining to Blackmail.
Congratulations also go to the new Novice Champions, Hart House’s George Trotter and Giorgio Traini, who defeated the University of Alberta’s Ian Burch and Byron Tse in a round on Telecom Immunity. Canada’s Top Public Speaker is McGill’s Vinay Kumar Mysore, who defeated Hart House’s Alexander Levy by explaining his absence from the American presidential campaign. The Top Novice Speaker was Giorgio from Hart House.
The new CUSID Executive includes Adam Coombs from Carleton University as President and Rudi M. Lof from York University as Treasurer. Joining them are the returning Executive Director, Alex Amar, from the University of Ottawa; Guelph’s Shaughnessy Hawkins as the new Vice-President for the Central region, Alberta’s Emily Cliff as the new Vice-President for the West, Matt Edmonds from St. Francis-Xavier as Vice-President for the East, and Carleton’s Yannick Veilleux-Lepage as the Director of French Language Debates.
Other business from the Annual General Meeting included the allocation of the 2007-2008 National Championships to the University of Saskatchewan and the ratification of Saint Mary’s University as CUSID’s newest member.
The Central Region General Meeting granted the 2007-2008 Central Canadian Novice Championships to Carleton University, and the L?ger Cup to Toronto’s Trinity College.
Many thanks and congratulations to Dalhousie University for an impeccable tournament.