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Brand new semester, same old goals
admin • August 31, 2009
It’s September 1 again, and the August binge of everything-you-had-planned-to-do-in-the-summer-but-hadn’t-gotten-around-to-yet has drawn to a close. We are back in school mode, and the inevitable school stress that started leaking into our psyches about a month ago is now drowning out any repressive mechanisms that had been keeping us sane until… Read More
Neutralizing the net
Diane Salema • August 31, 2009
Legislators and Internet users have different ideas of what a non-discriminatory Internet means Read More
Hive Mind: Activist maladies and radical disorders
admin • August 17, 2009
I’m sick and I’m grumpy, and even though my meeting quotient this year has been relatively low when checked against my track record, venting about pet peeves from meetings seems like a good plan. I’ve narrowed it down to the top three activist behaviours and archetypes that make me grind… Read More
Errata
admin • August 17, 2009
In “Small numbers of loud voices protest Gaza” (News, January 12), The Daily incorrectly wrote that the protest was organized by QPIRG Concordia, when in fact it was called for by Tadamon! and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). Further, Laith Marouf is from SPHR and Aaron Lakoff is from… Read More
Worth its salt
admin • August 17, 2009
Sel et Vinaigre goes from zine to silkscreen in 1-2-3 Read More
News Briefs
admin • August 17, 2009
Quebecers to lead in demos this weekend Over a dozen Quebec cities are joining groups around the world this Saturday in alter-globalization demonstrations called by the World Social Forum. Instead of a meeting of the World Social Forum this year, international groups have called for a day of action to… Read More
Milking it for all it’s worth
admin • August 17, 2009
As I grow older, I find myself thrust into scenarios that I didn’t hope to encounter until I had at least 10 grey hairs. Sometimes the far-off foggy future proves to be frighteningly close: a fact that my dear boyfriend recently brought to my attention. We’ve been together for a… Read More
Students admit abusing study drugs
admin • August 17, 2009
McGill’s academic integrity policy lacks restriction on abuse of psycho-stimulants for academic purposes Read More
Students occupy government office
Jennifer Markowitz • August 17, 2009
ASSÉ demonstrators form blockade at economic institute for free tuition Read More
This just in: Manhattan attacked by monsters, again
admin • August 17, 2009
The media was hyping Cloverfield well before its release. The marketing tactic was unusual for a big studio film: rather than giving away plot lines in a trailer, the movie was shrouded in secrecy. The strategy was for the audience to see it with very few expectations, but a desire… Read More
Poaching health workers from abroad
admin • August 17, 2009
Most countries, like our own, have a severe shortage of skilled health workers. According to a report published by the Canadian Nurses Association, by 2016, the estimated shortage of Registered Nurses (RN) in Canada will be as much as 113,000. For me, a young, healthy, soon-to-be RN, this is great… Read More
Leong in Wonderland
admin • August 17, 2009
B.C. artist re-imagines the natural world with a measure of intrigue Read More
Green changes coming to Caferama space
Shannon Kiely • August 17, 2009
Caferama’s days of dishing out paninis and salads in styrofoam are numbered, and students are gearing up to replace the Shatner building’s first-floor cafeteria – whose lease expires on August 31 – with a more sustainable food source. Derina Man, SSMU’s Environment Commissioner, held a meeting Friday with SSMU executive… Read More
A few violent images
admin • August 17, 2009
Zahra Moloo explores how the Western media distorts the crisis in Kenya Read More