Horse owners and Côte-des-Neiges oppose casino project
Plans to bailout bankrupt Hippodrome in conflict with community centre proposals for 2,500 social housing units
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News Brief: Council authorizes, refuses fees, approves referendum questions
Council approved a combined $20.40 a year increase to ancillary fees Thursday, allowing the administration to increase the Student Services Fee, the Athletics Fee, and… Read More »News Brief: Council authorizes, refuses fees, approves referendum questions
Editorial: Hitting the economic books
Last week, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum released a statement on the economic downturn and the effects it will have on the University. Her observations paint a grim picture: McGill is underfunded, and has been since long before the downturn; its endowment
Lost In Transcription: Confessions of a hypochondriac
Considering online symptom searching and digital self-diagnosing
More than just a specimen
Diane Obomsawin illustrates the mysterious case of Kaspar Hauser with child-like sensitivity
Choose Life becomes full-status club
Students debate whether “pro-life” is oppressive
Hyde Park: Higher learning or higher-tech weapons?
Weapons, to state the obvious, are extremely complicated. High-tech explosives are not something your average McGill student understands particularly well. This may be one reason… Read More »Hyde Park: Higher learning or higher-tech weapons?
Pushing for research that reaches
New licensing for McGill’s health technologies could benefit many
Hyde Park: Separating politics from human rights
Last Thursday, 450 students voted against debating the motion to condemn the bombings of educational institutions in Gaza. A question that I thought would reach… Read More »Hyde Park: Separating politics from human rights
Hyde Park: No news is bad news
“If it bleeds, it leads,” goes the journalistic maxim. But it is clear that not all blood is equally worthy of the front page. Supposedly… Read More »Hyde Park: No news is bad news
Hyde Park: Taking diversity to class
There is an all-too-familiar litany of complaints that follow the question, “So, how do you like McGill?” posed so frequently by probing family members: the… Read More »Hyde Park: Taking diversity to class
Basic training
I marched into the military recruiting centre on a rainy Thursday night. Three teenage boys about my age shot me a disinterested glance as they… Read More »Basic training
Progress for women in fight against HIV
Research from two studies renews hope of finding effective microbicide
Letters
Would the real Harvard nix Humanistics? Re: “In defence of Humanistic Studies” | Commentary | February 9 I stand with Richard Kreitner in support of… Read More »Letters
City investing in the black community
Federal infrastructure money to help refurbish cultural centre and NDG theatre