Senior city
McGill Institute of Learning in Retirement Henna Schaikh This year the McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement (MILR) will commemorate its 20th year of providing… Read More »Senior city
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Seniors: Winter transit poses dangers
Two senior citizens were trampled by a snow removal truck on Sherbrooke E. in front of Notre Dame Hospital last Tuesday. A 72-year-old man died… Read More »Seniors: Winter transit poses dangers
Seniors: Life at a different pace
As a native of Côte-Saint-Luc, a municipality of Montreal, I never thought there was anything strange about my neighbourhood. Sure the mall is overrun with… Read More »Seniors: Life at a different pace
Seniors: Does sexuality age well?
Denial of sex among senior citizens increases the risks of isolation and STIs
Seniors: Out of the closet, into the system
The Canadian health care and social service sectors are fairly saturated with resources for senior citizens, and now more than ever, workers in these fields… Read More »Seniors: Out of the closet, into the system
Piñata Diplomacy: In defence of Humanistic Studies
“Le vrai science et la vrai étude de l’homme, c’est l’homme.” – Pierre Charon, Catholic theologian, 1601 Scuttlebutt is that the Faculty of Arts is… Read More »Piñata Diplomacy: In defence of Humanistic Studies
Life Lines: Get in touch with your other side
Alright, this is the one. My days of sentimental, inspirational-themed, hallmark-gift-card-esque columns are over. You thought I wouldn’t snap out of it, but I did.… Read More »Life Lines: Get in touch with your other side
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
McGill prof finds economic and environmental solutions in Quaker principles
The sombre side of the moon
Anna Trowbridge’s masterful A One Man Show For My Brother opens at Player’s Theatre
Seniors: She’s so old
Just before the fall semester of my freshman year, a friend of mine and I happened to witness the sight of someone who could not… Read More »Seniors: She’s so old
Seniors: We tell ourselves stories in order to age
When a high school invites the town’s grannies to speak, generational barriers are temporarily bridged
Symposium panelists redefine disability
New perspectives on Culture, Medicine, & Law
Seniors: Aging below the poverty line
Twice as many elderly Canadian women as men are living below the poverty line, despite government funding designed to improve the conditions of those disproportionately… Read More »Seniors: Aging below the poverty line
Stuck on Shuffle: Prince and the Pavlovian response
Rummaging through the musical formative years
Scandals plague Concordia Student Union
Money lost, bookkeeper sued, recall petition thwarted, fingers pointed