Commentary

In “Small numbers of loud voices protest Gaza” (News, January 12), The Daily incorrectly wrote that the protest was organized by QPIRG Concordia, when in… Read More »Errata

I’m sick and I’m grumpy, and even though my meeting quotient this year has been relatively low when checked against my track record, venting about… Read More »Hive Mind: Activist maladies and radical disorders

Szpajda Smug?! Re: “The Daily’s integrity problem” | Commentary | Jan 17, 2008 Another year, another tired ramble from Stefan Szpajda, The Daily’s Public Editor.… Read More »Letters: Ex-SSMUshies harvest sour grapes, plus fan mail for the Public Editor!

It is 3:00 AM and you’re sound asleep on a cold winter night. Suddenly the alarm goes off, forcing you to jump out of your… Read More »McGill residences: a governance model par excellence

The “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land” stickers pasted all around McGill have become something of a symbol of radical thought. Their message is explicit,… Read More »Hyde Park: Unpacking the sticky simplicity

Afghanistan’s history is ridden with invasion and foreign occupation. It abounds with insurgency, and is scarred by incessant conflict. Migration is a permanent feature of… Read More »Hyde Park: Our commitment is to humanity

“In my first year, I read The Daily all the time and loved how it explored all the cultural and social justice issues I cared… Read More »Public Editor: Some solutions to The Daily’s marginalization problem

What would Raphael Lemkin, the audacious author of the 1951 Genocide Convention and the man who coined the word “genocide,” think of Sudanese president Omar… Read More »Hyde Park: When justice is not enough

“I’m glad to be with you…here at the end of all things.” – Frodo Baggins Terrible, isn’t it? After all the sweat, tears, laughter and… Read More »Life Lines: Steps to the end of the tunnel with little feet

While I know that humans are more complex than molecules – in that molecules lack such important human characteristics as consciousness, agency, reason, and so… Read More »The Conversationalist: Don’t call me molecule: a glimpse into law and nature

We write this letter to express the concerns we share as five Residence Academic Staff members (floor fellows). Although we have been in constant conversation… Read More »Hyde Park: Let’s talk about residence issues

I have always found the prefacing quotations in Piñata Diplomacy rather cute. Be it Chomsky or Walt Whitman or Jesus’s homeboy Luke, the man, Ricky… Read More »Aristotle’s Lackey: Busting the Piñata: a response

Piñata diplomacy

As someone who has worked closely with this year’s SSMU exec, I found Jake Heller’s Hyde Park (“We’re spending $120,000 on what?”, March 30) to… Read More »Hyde Park: SSMU works damn hard

We count ourselves lucky that we’ll be back next year, despite increasing competition on and off campus, and with the recession exacerbating the already troubling… Read More »Editorial: The growing importance of Independent Media