Commentary

McGill’s Teaching Assistants (TAs) voted in favour of a strike mandate at a special meeting last week, empowering their union to declare an unlimited strike… Read More »Editorial: Support a TA strike

Front row: Leah Pires, Jennifer Markowitz, Nicholas Smith, David Pullmer Middle Row: Max Halparin, Nadja Popovich, PJ Vogt, Will Vanderbilt, Drew Nelles Back row: Simon… Read More »The Daily’s 2007-2008 Editorial Board

Is there anything more subjective than musical taste? Every single person has their own conception of what “good” music is. Over reading week, a group… Read More »Hyde Park: Cranston: give me respect

Floh re-enters the jargon fray Re: “A jargon-y defense of jargon?” | Commentary | March 31, 2008 Emilie Connolly partly misses the point. I don’t… Read More »Letters: TAs strike, activism jargon debate rages on

As Mitch Hedberg once remarked, alcoholism is the only disease you can get yelled at for having. Drunks have been treated unfairly for far too… Read More »In defense of alcohol

Some of you hate The Daily. At least 976 of you, actually, which is the number of undergrads who voted No in the referendum on… Read More »Comment: Why do they hate us?

On October 1 of last year, I wrote the first installment in this series of columns. Placing myself on some sort of pedestal, I had… Read More »Seizing Solitude signs off

For what it’s worth, this is my last column in The Daily. I had planned a kind of emetic valedictory column, and to bring tears… Read More »Scanlan says goodbye, but doesn’t get all sappy about it

In the article “Administrators offer weak answers to Senate questions” (News, March 27), The Daily wrote that the Safe Space program was started by three… Read More »Errata

At last Thursday’s Council, SSMU councillors voted to make The Tribune completely independent from the Students’ Society by 2010. Since its inception, The Trib has… Read More »Editorial: Breaking up is hard to do

Forty-eight hours before last Thursday’s SSMU council, The McGill Tribune received documents containing a motion that would force The Tribune out of the Students’ Society.… Read More »Tribune to SSMU: You done us wrong

A jargon-y defense of jargon Re: “Activism’s jargon epidemic” | Commentary | March 27, 2008 I was troubled by the trajectory by which Floh Herra-Vega’s… Read More »Classical, kids, and Connolly

As many of you already know, McGill’s Teaching Assistants (TAs) will be gathering tonight for a General Assembly to determine if they should go on… Read More »Hyde Park: Support our Teaching Assistants

Right now, I am reading Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. The novel is written in the first person plural, as if… Read More »Hand to Mouth: Josh Ferris: Despicable hipster, capable writer, or both?

I’m not a wonderful person. In fact, I’m shallow, self-absorbed, and narcissistic – in other words, a typical newspaper columnist. But at least I have… Read More »You Are Here: Smile-Manner Squadron, assemble!