Editorial Board • September 21, 2020

Six Nations land defenders have been occupying a residential development site on Haudenosaunee land, since July 19, 2020, in what is currently known as Caledonia, Ontario. Read More

Coordinating • September 14, 2020

On August 29, activists at an action to defund the police in Montreal's Place du Canada toppled a statue of the first prime minister of Canada, John A. MacDonald, who has family ties to the slave trade. Read More

Editorial Board • September 2, 2020

Across what is currently Canada and the United States, the violence enacted by the criminal justice and carceral systems have been at the centre of ongoing protests following endemic incidents of police brutality. In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter… Read More

Culture • April 5, 2020

Between March 24 and April 2, 2020, detainees at the Laval Migrant Detention Centre engaged in a hunger strike demanding their release given the unique threat that the pandemic poses to incarcerated populations. People in prisons and detention centres are at a high… Read More

Culture • March 28, 2020

With the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Quebec now exceeding 2,498, provincial Premier François Legault has put the province “on hold” for at least three weeks in hopes of “flattening the curve.” This hold, along with similar… Read More

Culture • March 22, 2020

As quarantine and self-isolation orders increase globally, the most recent wave of eco-facism has spread rapidly across social media and mainstream news outlets. False reports of dolphins returning to the empty canals in Venice… Read More

Culture • March 14, 2020

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 100 countries have confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as of March 8, 2020. On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. While governments have been grappling with widespread closures… Read More

Commentary • February 24, 2020

As the University’s 200th anniversary approaches, McGill’s presentation of history will undoubtedly be altered by what the administration chooses to represent. Black activism has been present at McGill for more than half a century, yet the University continues to censor and undermine these efforts, and the Black community… Read More

Commentary • February 17, 2020

On February 8, 2020, the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) government passed Bill 40, a major education reform law. This law abolished autonomous French and English school boards and replaced them with “service centres,” eliminated elections in French-language districts, and ended the role of school commissioners, among many other changes. Read More

Culture • February 10, 2020

On Bell Let’s Talk Day – January 29, 2020 – prisoners’ rights groups in Toronto and Ottawa held demonstrations titled “Bell Let Us Talk’’ in opposition to Bell’s monopoly on the prison phone system. Since 2013, Bell Canada has been the sole provider for Ontario’s province-wide prison… Read More

Culture • February 3, 2020

On Friday, January 11, the Indigenous Students Alliance (ISA) at McGill answered Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs’ call for solidarity against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline in a demonstration at the Y-intersection. This call came in response to an injunction against land protectors from the Wet’suwet’en Nation, which was granted… Read More

Culture • January 27, 2020

In the context of the climate crisis, projects such as the Trans Mountain Pipeline have received widespread backlash for being environmentally destructive. However, a newly proposed project in northeastern Alberta has purposefully flown under the radar. The Frontier Project, a proposed tar sands mine from Teck Resources Limited, is… Read More

Culture • January 20, 2020

The Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) government recently announced its plan to abolish the Ethics and Religious Culture (ECR) course, which has been compulsory in Quebec elementary and high schools since 2008. The CAQ seeks to replace the ECR course with a… Read More

Culture • January 13, 2020

Residents of the Plateau Mont-Royal have recently been faced with a crisis that disproportionately affects marginalized communities: renoviction. According to British Columbia’s provincial website, “renoviction” is used to describe an eviction that is carried out to renovate or repair a rental unit, a process closely related to the greater problem… Read More

admin • November 25, 2019

For over a year, the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) has been in negotiations with the McGill administration regarding the teaching assistants’ (TA) collective agreement, which expired in June 2018. TAs currently face a host of unaddressed issues, including limited protections for… Read More