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 a… Read More »McGill Teaching Assistants on strike
Union decries lack of progress in negotiations with administration
Smoke blanketed the Plateau last Wednesday when a fire erupted in a four-storey 60-unit apartment building. 100 people were relocated from the building on Pins… Read More »Off-Campus eye
On April Fools’ Day – or poisson d’avril in French – about 160 people marched a giant paper fish down René Lévesque to the provincial… Read More »Tenants protest rental board wait times
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… Read More »Capital campaign solicits student donations
My girlfriend George (short for Georgina) pulls on some stockings. They’re black, with little red hearts on them. Her coworker gave them to her. “She… Read More »The Hipless Boy: The big idea
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… Read More »Hyde Park: Cranston: give me respect
Annual film series at the Goethe Institut places contemporary German film in dialogue with the country’s cinematic past
Caférama tenant report ranks bidders [correction appended] In a confidential report released to SSMU councillors Friday, the SSMU Operations Committee ranked the seven tenders bidding… Read More »News Brief
The Board of Governors will approve a large portion of McGill’s physical Master Plan today, pledging the University to a broad set of goals as… Read More »BoG set to approve Master Plan today
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… Read More »Letters: TAs strike, activism jargon debate rages on
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… Read More »In defense of alcohol
Talk of the Montreal indie sound that pioneered in the early 2000s by bands such as The Unicorns has been rendered acutely obsolete. Online dissemination… Read More »We come in peace: Montreal’s Alien8 recordings
After years of inconsistent administrative support, a breadth of student environmental projects are breaking new ground
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… Read More »Errata