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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