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Federal solicitation laws endanger and isolate sex workers, activists say

Montreal’s new organic waste pickup plan would cut down on the volume of garbage winding up in landfills

David Sommers Rovins, an independent candidate running in the riding of Westmount–Ville-Marie in the upcoming federal election, butted heads with the McGill administration this week… Read More »McGill pushes independent politician off campus

Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore Tuesday, September 30, 7:30 p.m. Lev Bukhman Room, Shatner building, 3480 McTavish A screening will show… Read More »What’s the haps

Publishers still reluctant to grant digital distribution rights to company that negotiates copyright

But 23,000 Montreal families are still on the waiting list

Jim Nicell, Associate Vice-Principal (University Services), observed Car-Free Day on Monday holed up in his office, catching up on work. Responsible for the physical development… Read More »A throughfare for bikes unsafe: Nicell

Commission confronts memories haunting former Indian Residential School students

SSMU has proposed to redirect poorly invested private funding required under Quebec’s one per cent training investment program to McGill coffers. As stipulated by Emploi-Québec,… Read More »SSMU wants to snatch corporate employee training funds

Over 300 cyclists dropped dead in a tangled mess Monday – Montreal’s car-free day – as part of the third annual “Alive without my car!”… Read More »Off-Campus Eye

Canadian medicine to fight HIV/AIDS left for Rwanda yesterday, reviving criticism of the complex federal legislation that allows generic producers to export patented, life-saving drugs… Read More »Drug cocktail wings its way to Rwanda

Liberal postsecondary platform is “greatest investment in recent history,” student groups say

Oxfam McGill members demonstrated in front of the Roddick gates Monday to represent mothers who die in childbirth due to a lack of adequate medical… Read More »Campus Eye

English schools faring better than French schools for graduation rates

SSMU Council convened for the first time last Thursday to introduce new members and review the result of SSMU executives’ work this summer. With the… Read More »SSMU Council highlights important issues for this fall