Commentary
As Mitch Hedberg once remarked, alcoholism is the only disease you can get yelled at for having. Drunks have been treated unfairly for far too long, and this injustice ...
Scanlan says goodbye, but doesn’t get all sappy about it
For what it’s worth, this is my last column in The Daily. I had planned a kind of emetic valedictory column, and to bring tears to the eyes of all and everyone, but ...
Some of you hate The Daily. At least 976 of you, actually, which is the number of undergrads who voted No in the referendum on the newspaper’s existence McGill foisted ...
The Daily’s 2007-2008 Editorial Board
Front row: Leah Pires, Jennifer ...
Editorial: Toward a student-run café in Shatner
This Thursday, SSMU Council has the rare opportunity to make a decision that students will actually care about. Councillors will debate whether to award a ...
Editorial: Support a TA strike
McGill’s Teaching Assistants (TAs) voted in favour of a strike mandate at a special meeting last week, empowering their union to declare an unlimited strike at the ...
Hyde Park: Cranston: give me respect
Is there anything more subjective than musical taste? Every single person has their own conception of what “good” music is. Over reading week, a group of us had the iPod ...
Letters: TAs strike, activism jargon debate rages on
Floh re-enters the jargon fray Re: “A jargon-y defense of jargon?” | Commentary | March 31, 2008 Emilie Connolly partly misses the point. I don’t need ...
In the article “Administrators offer weak answers to Senate questions” (News, March 27), The Daily wrote that the Safe Space program was started by three volunteers. ...
On October 1 of last year, I wrote the first installment in this series of columns. Placing myself on some sort of pedestal, I had intended to describe and discuss ...
Hyde Park: Support our Teaching Assistants
As many of you already know, McGill’s Teaching Assistants (TAs) will be gathering tonight for a General Assembly to determine if they should go on strike. Why? ...
Hand to Mouth: Josh Ferris: Despicable hipster, capable writer, or both?
Right now, I am reading Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. The novel is written in the first person plural, as if the Queen were narrating. This sort of experiment ...
A jargon-y defense of jargon Re: “Activism’s jargon epidemic” | Commentary | March 27, 2008 I was troubled by the trajectory by which Floh ...
Editorial: Breaking up is hard to do
At last Thursday’s Council, SSMU councillors voted to make The Tribune completely independent from the Students’ Society by 2010. Since its inception, The Trib has ...
Tribune to SSMU: You done us wrong
Forty-eight hours before last Thursday’s SSMU council, The McGill Tribune received documents containing a motion that would force The Tribune out of the Students’ ...