admin • April 6, 2009

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, their objective specific: delegitimize the Vancouver Olympic Games on the grounds that Vancouver Olympic Committee (VanOC) has no right to host the games on venues… Read More

Hayley Lapalme • April 6, 2009

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 life there. During the Soviet invasion and the subsequent civil war, more than five million refugees fled to neighbouring Pakistan or Iran to seek asylum. Read More

admin • April 6, 2009

“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 about. In my second year, I started thinking that The Daily had lost some of its quality. In my third, I realized that it wasn’t… Read More

admin • April 6, 2009

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 Al-Bashir’s recent decision to expel 13 aid organizations from Darfur? Lemkin, a Polish refugee who lost both of his parents in the Holocaust, struggled for… Read More

Johanu Botha • April 6, 2009

“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 beers, to be sitting here, knowing that it’s just about finished. For first-years, what little they remember from Frosh Week has all but disappeared at… Read More

admin • April 6, 2009

While I know that humans are more complex than molecules – in that molecules lack such important human characteristics as consciousness, agency, reason, and so on – I can’t help but dwell on the similarity of their natures. You might say that the laws of science and those of human… Read More

admin • April 6, 2009

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 with our floor fellow colleagues, hall directors, first-year students and hall council members, we must make clear that we can speak only for ourselves. To… Read More

Sana Saeed • April 6, 2009

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 Kreitner, knows how to use Google at an expert level. Very impressive. Kreitner’s column has been one of the most interesting aspects of The Daily… Read More

Ricky Kreitner • April 6, 2009

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admin • April 6, 2009

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 be ill-informed. As a philosophy major, I found his argument that SSMU executives don’t deserve their salaries to be more than a little lacking. This… Read More

admin • April 6, 2009

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 state of traditional media. The CBC is in bad financial straits, and with the recent closings of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Denver’s Rocky Mountain News,… Read More

admin • April 6, 2009

Grassroots media, including campus radio, offer a vital alternative to the homogenous mainstream, especially in Canada, where a clutch of corporations own most of our media outlets. Let’s run down the list: Rogers Media owns dozens of radio stations; CanWest controls Global TV and a raft of newspapers, including the… Read More

admin • April 6, 2009

So, you think I write like shit, do ya? Re: “There’s a new Daily in town, and it’s called The Trib” | Commentary | March 19 Dear Marc, I cannot help but take personal offence to your article in March 19’s Daily. You begin strongly enough, suggesting that reviews of… Read More

admin • April 6, 2009

The longevity and complexity of the Arab-Israeli conflict, along with the contention it arouses when discussed, have always interested me and made me to want to learn more about the issue. Prior to this semester, I never really challenged my beliefs about it. The way I viewed the events in… Read More

admin • March 30, 2009

Here’s the deal: I do not care to know about your views on abortion, your stance on the legalization of marijuana and, no, not even which side of the Arab-Israeli conflict you are on. I do, however, care about the fact that you maintain your right to believe whatever you… Read More