Commentary

When Alexandra Brown – SSMU VP Internal candidate against Brendan Sullivan – came into The Daily office to have her photo taken, she joked that… Read More »No more acclaimed positions

W estern society’s communicative ability has been ruined! Ruined by advertising, and all that second-by-second grabbing of our attention with bright lights and colours and… Read More »The Conversationalist: Improvisers’ lessons on present-mindedness

The photo for “Out of Africa” (Mind & Body, February 19) was attributed to Rachel Kutler when in fact it was taken by the article’s… Read More »Errata

“The Palestinian martyr replaces the proletarian struggle for a communist society.” – Pierre-André Taguieff, French philosopher Last week, several McGill groups hosted the annual Israel… Read More »Piñata diplomacy: Where might a new anti-Semitism take root?

“Like all madmen, I thought everyone was mad except myself.” – Leo Tolstoy That was me, sitting shivering in a Manitoba ice rink, gawking at… Read More »Life Lines: Going home to handle rink-side madness

If I have to read about that one more time… Dear McGill Daily, Can you please stop printing articles and letters about the following topics:… Read More »Letters

We are delighted to read that the goal of the boycotting professors is “a just and lasting peace between two viable states,” and with “security… Read More »Hyde Park: Boycotting profs have it all wrong

Why the Birks building shouldn’t promote half-baked academia

Dear Professor Manfredi and the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee: I am writing to express my disappointment upon hearing that there has been a recommendation… Read More »Open Letter: Don’t dismantle Humanistic Studies

I had been looking forward to The Daily’s special issue on geeks for weeks. I was really excited, but I didn’t tell any of my… Read More »Public Editor: Geeks wasn’t up to special issue standards

New student initiatives aim to address ineffective systems for processing harassment complaints

Choose Life or choose censorship? Over the past couple weeks, I’ve had numerous close friends approach me and say “Can you believe SSMU granted club… Read More »Letters

Through the 21 years that I’ve seen – unless you take out the first one to two-and-a-half, as they remain a blur – I’ve always… Read More »Aristotle’s Lackey: How suburban education brainwashes women

Ricky Kreitner was hacking pretty hard at the Piñata Diplomacy when this tasty morsel came flying: “After all the uproar about Bush’s surge – the… Read More »Comment: Bloody Iraq is no success

Every Tuesday afternoon, Daily editors stop by the CKUT studios to discuss hot-button topics covered in the paper with our community radio station. The segments… Read More »Making the Daily