Commentary

The article “TAs to demonstrate at Roddick Gates today” (News, March 13) reported that TA salaries make up six per cent of McGill’s budget. In… Read More »Errata

Flustered and running late, Coordinating editor Drew Nelles strides into the office looking every part the seasoned Dailyite. With his trademark blonde hair swept over… Read More »Public Editor: Look ma, no hierarchy!

Everyone agrees there is a crisis in education, but what does that mean? Buzz words abound – reform, underfunding, corporatization, privatization, secularization, dogmatism – while… Read More »Hyde Park: Mental health and Norman Cornett

Former Daily editor expresses support for Daily Thank you McGill undergraduate students for reaffirming your support for The Daily. For almost a hundred years, McGill… Read More »Letters: Old editors and new conspiracy theories

The provincial Minister of Finance presented her second budget last Thursday, amid concerns of a global economic slow-down. The lacklustre event failed to attract much… Read More »Seizing Solitude: Shuffling numbers at the Ministry of Finance

Well, it’s a landslide. Eighty-one per cent of undergraduate students who voted wanted to keep The McGill Daily and Le Délit alive. We editors are… Read More »Editorial: The Daily thanks you

In this campus’s efforts at inclusion, it seems we have missed a step. In our chemistry labs, in our PhD seminars, in our cafeterias, there… Read More »Editorial: Rights for student parents

Usually, all I receive in my email account for this column are messages from Esteban Kramer urging me to consider buying some penny-stocks on the… Read More »Hand to Mouth: Padraic opens his mailbag

Three weeks ago, protesters tore pages with a military recruitment ad out of The McGill Tribune, risking severe paper cuts to save their fellow students… Read More »You are here: Our cloak-and-dagger campus

Running a referendum campaign takes a lot of time, energy, and money, but it has its perks: students have actually sat down to read through… Read More »Hyde Park: A user’s guide to shaping The Daily

After this Monday’s Daily feature on the contemporary significance of Pride, I feel compelled to throw in my own two cents. The first time I… Read More »Hive Mind: Pride, shame, and coming out

Vote Yes for your sworn enemies Sirs, To my dear fellow sensible and pragmatic people on campus who think The Daily is a dirty pinko… Read More »Letters: Manosij Majumdar floods The Daily letters section while editors hastily assemble ark

You may have heard that the University administration is trying to control whether SSMU clubs and services can use the word “McGill” in their names.… Read More »Hyde Park: Admin to McGill First Aid: not in our name

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are all the rage these days in Quebec City. Under the auspices of the Quebec Infrastructures Plan launched last Fall, the current… Read More »Seizing Solitude: The public-private problem

Religious texts are fascinating. Yet I am constantly perplexed as to how the beautifully crafted words and lessons found on scrolls and leaves – from… Read More »Hyde Park: The poetry of Islam