Contest winners cut red tape
Ten students each received $100 Tuesday for offering the best suggestions to reduce red tape and bureaucracy at McGill – but the administration has made… Read More »Contest winners cut red tape
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Hive mind: Student activism’s jargon epidemic
I saw a poster that caught my eye the other day. Unfortunately, I forget what it was for, but I remember that it was a… Read More »Hive mind: Student activism’s jargon epidemic
Hyde Park: Boycott corporate cafeterias
Today and tomorrow, students will boycott McGill’s corporate-run cafeterias. It’s widely known that food services at McGill are inadequate. In The Globe and Mail’s 2007… Read More »Hyde Park: Boycott corporate cafeterias
Letters: Anti-brutality protest erupts in brutality, former SSMU Prez sends dispatches from the front
Et tu, brutes? While walking home two Saturdays ago, I fell upon the demonstration against police brutality. At first, I watched the protestors calmly walk… Read More »Letters: Anti-brutality protest erupts in brutality, former SSMU Prez sends dispatches from the front
Pointe St. Charles residents decry post office relocation
Pointe St. Charles residents are outraged over the local Canada Post’s plans to relocate its office from a vibrant residential neighbourhood to a remote industrial… Read More »Pointe St. Charles residents decry post office relocation
Radeq Brousil on St. Francis of Assissi, the south of France, and animal portraiture
Prague artist’s exhibit at Parisian Laundry is inspired by the personal changes he’s undergone while living in Canada
Empathetic mice feel each other’s pain
It was a crisp autumn morning, the kind we get in Montreal two weeks before the winter freeze. The stairs were glistening with dew, and… Read More »Empathetic mice feel each other’s pain
When I grow up I want to be Alex Shoumatoff
“Bono and I had dinner in Dublin. We stayed up till 3:00 in the morning and got totally shitfaced,” Alex Shoumatoff tells me over noodles… Read More »When I grow up I want to be Alex Shoumatoff
SSMU drops ball on prioritizing student space
As Caférama space opens up to bidding war, $20,000 slated for student space will likely go toward other initiatives
Patients have a heart to heart
It’s a little-known fact that congenital heart defects affect one out of every hundred infants in Canada. Specialty camp opportunities are numerous for kids with… Read More »Patients have a heart to heart
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Literary Supplement
Letters: More elections shenanigans from Jake Itzkowitz?
Jake Itzkowitz is Karl Rove? Dear Mr. Itzkowitz, At the beginning of the campaign period, the Arts Undergraduates Society (AUS) made clear to candidates that… Read More »Letters: More elections shenanigans from Jake Itzkowitz?
Garcia Bernal’s shady past
Babenco’s The Past has all of the elements, but doesn’t work
Simply Tasty: Imbiber’s banana loaf
You will need an assistant to cook this recipe, to finish the bottle of beer. You could do it yourself, but we all know the… Read More »Simply Tasty: Imbiber’s banana loaf
Conference encourages undergrads to link work with community activism
McGill and Concordia students hope to expand to include French universities