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McGill shuffles wait-listed first years to new luxury accommodations at the last minute

Caferama manager Faykil Ben will be left jobless come January when coffee giant, Café Supreme, moves into room 103 in the Shatner building. Ben will… Read More »Caferama franchisee to lose restaurant

Security calls police to handle campus “criminal activities”

Montreal police insist community is safe, incidents unrelated

Students decry flawed tender process, lack of consultation

McGill’s 2,000 teaching assistants (TAs) began striking today following the breakdown of negotiations at two final meetings during which the University continued to resist a… Read More »McGill Teaching Assistants on strike

This year’s SSMU executive stumbles through the final weeks of the semester

Long-time area business owners decry lack of consultations over multi-million dollar investments

The Board of Governors will approve a large portion of McGill’s physical Master Plan today, pledging the University to a broad set of goals as… Read More »BoG set to approve Master Plan today

After nearly a century, McGill is selling the McGill Outdoors Club house in Shawbridge, an hour north of Montreal. Morton Mendelson, Deputy Provost (Student Life… Read More »McGill to sell Outdoors Club house

Smoke blanketed the Plateau last Wednesday when a fire erupted in a four-storey 60-unit apartment building. 100 people were relocated from the building on Pins… Read More »Off-Campus eye

On April Fools’ Day – or poisson d’avril in French – about 160 people marched a giant paper fish down René Lévesque to the provincial… Read More »Tenants protest rental board wait times

This year echoed with ghosts of the past. Student strikes popped up across the province, recalling the militancy of 2005. The food-services debate of 2004… Read More »2007-2008 Year in review

Kosman called to defend decision to revoke Ukranian Club’s office space

Next year’s Finance & Operations portfolio is one of the least-contested SSMU positions in recent memory – it’s been like the hot potato of exec… Read More »Acclaimed SSMU VP Finance & Operations Tobias Silverstein speaks out