Waiting for the groundswell
It’s been over 40 years since the student movement’s 1960s heyday, and the image of a small core of student activists fighting ever-increasing apathy on our… Read More »Waiting for the groundswell
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Bits of America
One student fills in details on the president’s inauguration
A call for unity of the have-nots
A couple days before Obama’s Inauguration, a good friend of mine was laid off. The factory he worked at works exclusively with aluminum provided by… Read More »A call for unity of the have-nots
Piñata diplomacy : Barack Obama is not an indie rock band
“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb’s feathers.” – George Meredith There is nothing of any import that I could possibly add to the heaps… Read More »Piñata diplomacy : Barack Obama is not an indie rock band
Black and white, and political all over
Deconstructing the upper-middle-class myth of a post-racial society
Administrators, students present
The recently formed McGill Food Systems Project (MFSP) presented its mandate Thursday at a meeting that also included a presentation by McGill Food and Dining… Read More »Administrators, students present
Hyde Park: Bring tampon machines back to Shatner
I ‘m not the girl you might think would write this sort of article. I don’t stand in front of Oxford Dictionary offices picketing in… Read More »Hyde Park: Bring tampon machines back to Shatner
When outsiders settle in
Christoph Hein’s novel Settlement probes questions of place, identity, and divided history
Firing deals another blow to First Nations University
Censure on FNU makes collaboration with Canadian professors impossible
Police seek to unmask protesters
Opponents rally around freedom of speech and expression
Charkaoui trial exposes feds’ smoke and mirrors
After four days of public hearings in the federal case of Montrealer Adil Charkaoui last week, supporters of the Moroccan-born French teacher were confident that… Read More »Charkaoui trial exposes feds’ smoke and mirrors
Students camp out for literacy
Participants hope to raise $40,000 for libraries in India
We built this city on theft ’n’ fraud
The moral ramifications of cultural re-appropriation in pop music
Law profs mull over constitution
An open letter to Governor General Michaëlle Jean signed by 35 academic constitutional experts is calling on Her Excellency to request that the leader of… Read More »Law profs mull over constitution