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Tenant and landlord groups disagree on rent control’s success

Olga Redko • November 24, 2008

As increasingly colder nights send Montrealers home to warm apartments, a dispute between two rental groups calls into question the very principles of rent control that keep the city’s dwellings affordable. According to the Regroupement des comités logement et associations de locataires du Québec (RCLALQ) – an organization that protects… Read More

Outdoor GA failed to reach quorum

Olga Redko • October 9, 2008

Motions passed now submitted to online referendum for ratification Read More

Pro-life group seeks SSMU club status

Olga Redko • October 6, 2008

Voices of other Canadian groups muffled by students’ societies Read More

Sex workers

Olga Redko • September 29, 2008

Federal solicitation laws endanger and isolate sex workers, activists say Read More

Bookstore mould triggers student worker rights violation

Olga Redko • September 22, 2008

Management prefers students don’t contact University services Read More

Students unite to take back campus

Olga Redko • September 11, 2008

Bike protestors flow against traffic in support of prioritizing cyclists’ right to ride Read More

Community Gardens revitalize urban landscape

Olga Redko • September 4, 2008

Although over 160 community gardens were closed in Montreal last spring due to soil contamination, the push to green a concrete city through gardening remains strong. McGill University’s Department of Architecture has been at the forefront of the movement to increase green space through the efforts of its Minimum Cost… Read More

Solin bedbug victim denied rent compensation

Olga Redko • April 7, 2008

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 pesty blood-suckers discovered in the New Residence Hall and the MORE house at 522 Pins last year, surfaced in Solin last semester. While representatives… Read More

McGill weighs options for safer bike parking

Olga Redko • March 17, 2008

McGill Planning Office asks student cyclists whether they want bike lockers Read More