Culture • October 5, 2019

content warning: sexual violence As of September 23, all students have access to McGill’s new consent-focused sexual violence prevention program, “It Takes All of Us.” It is recommended that students go through the 45-minute program in one sitting. The program stops playing if the viewer leaves the webpage, but this… Read More

admin • September 23, 2019

The Neskantaga First Nation declared a state of emergency for the second time this year on September 14, the day after both their primary and back-up water pumps broke. The damage to both pumps led to the contamination of the community’s tap water. Even after being boiled, as… Read More

admin • September 17, 2019

On September 9, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ordered 103 Bahamian evacuees to get off a ferry scheduled for Florida if they did not have visas, according to reporter Brian Entin. Bahamians are required to have either pre-clearance from US facilities in Nassau and Freeport or… Read More

admin • September 17, 2019

On Tuesday, September 3, Quebec taxi drivers began a rotating strike, during which only urgent requests (e.g. medical and assistive calls) will be responded to. Montreal taxi drivers held demonstrations at Trudeau Airport on August 26 and Montreal Casino on September 1 as an immediate reaction to talks concerning Bill… Read More

admin • September 17, 2019

On Monday, August 26, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right president, rejected an aid package pledged by G7 countries to help combat the forest fires in the Amazon. Unlike the recurring forest fires in British Columbia or California, these fires are anything but natural; many of them were… Read More

admin • April 8, 2019

On March 28, the CAQ government tabled the controversial Bill 21. This is the provincial government’s fourth attempt at limiting the religious freedom of religious minorities. The bill seeks to ban public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols and to limit the range of… Read More

admin • April 1, 2019

On the night of March 23, the Queen Victoria statue on McGill’s campus was doused with green paint. This statue, along with the James McGill statue, has been covered in paint several times over the past year. A group called the “Delhi-Dublin Anti-Colonial Solidarity Brigade” claimed responsibility… Read More

Commentary • March 25, 2019

On March 15, a white supremacist terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand resulted in the murder of 50 people during Jummah prayers at Al Noor and Linwood mosques. Another 50 people were sent to the hospital with injuries, some of them life-threatening. On March 18, eight McGill student groups organized… Read More

admin • March 18, 2019

March 18, 2019 marks the beginning of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) at McGill and across North America. The term “apartheid” gained international attention during the political system of racial segregation and discrimination that took place in South Africa for five decades, and is now used to characterize… Read More

admin • February 18, 2019

Between May 2016 and April 2017, the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) implemented a policy to equip 78 police officers with body cameras. This was an attempt to improve police accountability following public outcry over numerous cases of police brutality and murder. On February… Read More

admin • February 12, 2019

On January 30, Principal Suzanne Fortier sent the student body an email with an update on the R*dmen renaming process. In her email, she stated that she alone would make the decision about renaming by the end of the term. Fortier’s decision follows the release of final… Read More

admin • February 5, 2019

February 1-7 marks SSMU’s first time participating in National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. The McGill administration, however, has been criticized for cancelling its Eating Disorder Program (EDP) in 2017, and for not providing sufficient mental health services to students. On January 28, Principal Suzanne Fortier announced… Read More

admin • January 29, 2019

On January 15, during a town hall meeting at Brock University, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaffirmed his condemnation of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The issue was brought up after an audience member asked the Prime Minister to retract his previous statements regarding BDS. In… Read More

admin • January 21, 2019

content warning: mention of sexual violence As of January 1, 2019, McGill has missed the deadline set by Quebec’s Ministry of Education to update its sexual violence policy. Bill 151, passed in December 2017, mandates all post-secondary institutions in Quebec to adopt a new… Read More

admin • January 14, 2019

On January 7, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) crossed the Gitdimt’en* checkpoint on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. This checkpoint was established to reinforce an existing checkpoint at the entry of the Unistot’en Camp and to stop Coastal GasLink employees from entering the premises. Wet’suwet’en Nation members view the… Read More