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Campus eye: Charkoui speaks out
admin • April 6, 2009
Using secret evidence and an assumption of guilt to detain non-citizens indefinitely under threat of deportation, security certificate legislation inflicts high consequences on detainees with extremely low standards of justice, members of the Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui said at a Refugee Research Project event Wednesday. Throughout the talk, Montreal… Read More
Activist starts organisation to help children in war-torn Africa
admin • April 6, 2009
Kimmie Weeks wanted to help fix “the poverty that kills” Read More
Forty years of McGill français
Nicholas Smith • March 30, 2009
Speakers recall a protest for change in participation of francophones at McGill Read More
National Post judges freedom of expression at McGill
Jennifer Markowitz • March 30, 2009
Students booted by associate dean for silent protest Read More
Westmount still won’t pick-up commercial recycling
admin • March 30, 2009
Businesses get creative as city ponders plans Read More
Policy crisis conference questions media’s influence
Nicholas Smith • March 30, 2009
The influence of national media’s rhetoric on Canadian public policy was called into question during a panel as part of a two-day Public Policy in Crisis conference, organized by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, which attracted major players involved with public policy, including politicians, consultants, public servants,… Read More
Concordia remembers sit-in, riots
Niko Block • March 30, 2009
Remembered 40 years after the fact for the destruction of computers, speakers recall forgotten racial tension Read More
Concordia overtakes McGill in the waste race
admin • March 30, 2009
Montreal’s other anglo university hopes to compost 100 tonnes of organic refuse by 2012 Read More
Floor fellows clash with new boss
Alison Withers • March 30, 2009
Correction appended Until recently, McGill had one of the strictest student residence alcohol policies in Canada, but only loosely enforced the guidelines. Now, the new Executive Director of Residences, Michael Porritt, is determined to close the gap between policy and practice – just one example of a changing philosophy that’s… Read More
Undergrad projects stuck on paper
Henry Gass • March 30, 2009
Communication gaps block student research from real-world implementation Read More
Senate delays student question on military
Jeff Bishku-Aykul • March 30, 2009
University redrafts regulations on research policy Read More
Bureaucracy bars children’s access to meds
Nikki Bozinoff • March 30, 2009
Large pharmaceutical companies expected to oppose reforms to flawed legislation Read More
Green company develops red light district
Thomas Kim • March 30, 2009
Montreal’s red-light district, the area east of St. Laurent and Ste. Catherine, is getting cleaned up. Patrons of the sex shops, insta-checks, and fast food joints may not be able to recognize the area after an eco-friendly mega-complex of socially responsible retail and art moves in. A non-profit, eco-friendly development… Read More
Afghanistan’s top Canadian soldier busts mission’s myths
admin • March 26, 2009
Brigadier-General Thompson welcomes a stronger civilian presence Read More
Monitoring Palestine from within
admin • March 26, 2009
Bassem Eid is a Palestinian journalist and Executive Director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) – an independent organization founded in 1996 that provides impartial documentation of human rights violations by Palestinian political factions. PHRMG monitors Hamas, the militant group in control of the Gaza Strip, as well… Read More