Commentary

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

This Thursday, SSMU Council has the rare opportunity to make a decision that students will actually care about. Councillors will debate whether to award a… Read More »Editorial: Toward a student-run café in Shatner

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

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?

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

I saw a poster that caught my eye the other day. Unfortunately, I forget what it was for, but I remember that it was a… Read More »Hive mind: Student activism’s jargon epidemic

Today and tomorrow, students will boycott McGill’s corporate-run cafeterias. It’s widely known that food services at McGill are inadequate. In The Globe and Mail’s 2007… Read More »Hyde Park: Boycott corporate cafeterias

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!

Et tu, brutes? While walking home two Saturdays ago, I fell upon the demonstration against police brutality. At first, I watched the protestors calmly walk… Read More »Letters: Anti-brutality protest erupts in brutality, former SSMU Prez sends dispatches from the front

Though some of you are still celebrating the resounding Yes vote The Daily got on our survival the other day, we’re already thinking about the… Read More »Hyde Park: Yes to accountability, no to neverendums

We’re just three short months into 2008, but things are looking a lot like 2004. That year, a group of students called the Coalition for… Read More »Editorial: Boycott Chartwells next Thursday