Commentary

Piñata diplomacy

As someone who has worked closely with this year’s SSMU exec, I found Jake Heller’s Hyde Park (“We’re spending $120,000 on what?”, March 30) to… Read More »Hyde Park: SSMU works damn hard

We count ourselves lucky that we’ll be back next year, despite increasing competition on and off campus, and with the recession exacerbating the already troubling… Read More »Editorial: The growing importance of Independent Media

Grassroots media, including campus radio, offer a vital alternative to the homogenous mainstream, especially in Canada, where a clutch of corporations own most of our… Read More »Hyde Park: Alternative media amplifies diverse voices

So, you think I write like shit, do ya? Re: “There’s a new Daily in town, and it’s called The Trib” | Commentary | March… Read More »Three pages of your letters!

The longevity and complexity of the Arab-Israeli conflict, along with the contention it arouses when discussed, have always interested me and made me to want… Read More »Hyde Park: Thinking against your bias

It’s all over – both my time at McGill and at The Daily. While the usual feelings of uncertainty and fear that most soon-to-be graduates… Read More »Why I like The Daily

The “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land” stickers pasted all around McGill have become something of a symbol of radical thought. Their message is explicit,… Read More »Hyde Park: Unpacking the sticky simplicity

Afghanistan’s history is ridden with invasion and foreign occupation. It abounds with insurgency, and is scarred by incessant conflict. Migration is a permanent feature of… Read More »Hyde Park: Our commitment is to humanity

“In my first year, I read The Daily all the time and loved how it explored all the cultural and social justice issues I cared… Read More »Public Editor: Some solutions to The Daily’s marginalization problem

What would Raphael Lemkin, the audacious author of the 1951 Genocide Convention and the man who coined the word “genocide,” think of Sudanese president Omar… Read More »Hyde Park: When justice is not enough

“I’m glad to be with you…here at the end of all things.” – Frodo Baggins Terrible, isn’t it? After all the sweat, tears, laughter and… Read More »Life Lines: Steps to the end of the tunnel with little feet

The generation of waste is a built-in feature of the consumer-based society we live in; more often than not, a product’s life ends in a… Read More »Editorial: Waste isn’t normal

Another year, another SSMU election. And as usual, nobody cared. This year’s explosion of indifference saw approximately 24,000 undergraduates cast just 3,631 ballots: a whopping… Read More »Hyde Park: We’re spending $120,000 on that?

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”… Read More »Piñata Diplomacy: What Matt Damon teaches us about education