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McGill students arrested on 4/20
Security calls police to handle campus "criminal activities"
Two McGill undergraduate students were arrested on lower campus last Sunday when at least eight Montreal police officers swarmed onto campus to break up a small crowd ...
SSMU accuses police of mishandling assault cases in Milton-Parc area
Montreal police insist community is safe, incidents unrelated
After a week of online rumours and contradictory reports, student leaders are accusing the Montreal police of mishandling recent cases of assault in the Milton-Parc area.
SSMU approves corporate food service for Shatner 103
Students decry flawed tender process, lack of consultation
A corporate food service will again occupy Shatner room 103 – currently leased by Caférama – for at least the next five years.
McGill Teaching Assistants on strike
McGill's 2,000 teaching assistants (TAs) began striking today following the breakdown of negotiations at two final meetings during which the University continued to resist ...
Teaching assistants prepare to strike
Union decries lack of progress in negotiations with administration
McGill’s Teaching Assistants (TAs) voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate at a Special General Assembly last Monday, in hopes of compelling the University to compromise at the negotiation table. Members of the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill ...
Mile End to undergo massive redevelopment
Long-time area business owners decry lack of consultations over multi-million dollar investments
Redevelopment plans that will reshape the once-bustling garment district in Mile End are underway, and residents and workers are lashing out at the City for keeping ...
Capital campaign solicits student donations
McGill’s Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) is asking current students to help fund Campaign McGill as it tries to climb from the $380-million already collected to ...
Liquor bickering provokes Judicial Board hearing
Kosman called to defend decision to revoke Ukranian Club’s office space
Following a dispute between two clubs over alleged liquor theft, the McGill Ukrainian Students Association (MUSA) challenged a SSMU executive at the Society’s highest ...
Acclaimed SSMU VP Finance & Operations Tobias Silverstein speaks out
Next year’s Finance & Operations portfolio is one of the least-contested SSMU positions in recent memory – it’s been like the hot potato of exec portfolios. In any case, ...
Tenants protest rental board wait times
On April Fools’ Day – or poisson d’avril in French – about 160 people marched a giant paper fish down René Lévesque to the provincial rental board’s downtown office ...
Music students hold referendum on fee increase
Music students will vote on whether to increase ancillary fees by $333 per year for music lessons in a referendum this week. The referendum came in the wake of ...
God as Father discussion Monday, April 7, 6:00 p.m Montreal Diocesan Theological College, 3473 University Discuss the dominant views of God as father ...
Hopping to the finish
This year’s SSMU executive stumbles through the final weeks of the semester
Jake Itzkowitz President For a President who panders to the press and constantly checks his BlackBerry, Itzkowitz’s failure this year was maintaining an ...
Solin bedbug victim denied rent compensation
McGill is refusing to terminate the lease or provide rent compensation to a student whose Solin Hall apartment was infested with bedbugs for months. Bedbugs, the ...
Humanistic studies program under third critical review
Humanistic Studies is once again under the microscope, and students and faculty are concerned about the program’s future. Under review for the third time in half a ...