Commentary

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?

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

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

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

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

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