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Brutal, beautiful, surreal
The World Press Photo Exhibition makes detachment impossible
News Brief: Sheraton engages teenage scabs
On August 29, the Quebec Labour Relations Commission ordered Montreal’s Sheraton Four Points hotel – where nearly 70 unionized workers have been striking since August… Read More »News Brief: Sheraton engages teenage scabs
Montreal not to ban bottled water, yet
Convinced that water bottles are clogging landfills, Montreal is pushing for a deposit-based recycling system on plastic bottles instead of crusading alongside other Canadian cities… Read More »Montreal not to ban bottled water, yet
Raucous symphony and ambiguous space
A retrospective of the first annual Quebec Triennial at the Musée d’Art Contemporain
CKUT produces national news segment
Students craving grassroots media may want to tune into CKUT 90.3 FM Friday when McGill’s community radio station produces this month’s edition of Groundwire –… Read More »CKUT produces national news segment
Queen E. workers strike
Dozens of picketing hotel workers lined the sidewalks outside the main entrance to the Queen Elizabeth Hotel last week to demand benefits and improved working… Read More »Queen E. workers strike
Bittersweet exposures
Studio photography pays homage to the Japanese Canadian experience
Pushing the limits
Yves Saint Laurent inverts the rules of women’s vogue
The great safe-inject debate
New Quebec Health Minister shoots down plans for safe-injection sites around the province, local groups come out in protest
Community Gardens revitalize urban landscape
Although over 160 community gardens were closed in Montreal last spring due to soil contamination, the push to green a concrete city through gardening remains… Read More »Community Gardens revitalize urban landscape
Letters: Police, tough-love, and more pot science
Brière’s big day In 2004, a police officer of the Montreal police force, Eric Lehner, testified in court, and based on his testimony an honest… Read More »Letters: Police, tough-love, and more pot science
MUNACA snubs another McGill proposal
Defeating their General Assembly (GA) motion to accept the University’s latest proposed contract Tuesday, employees of McGill University’s Non-Academic Certified Association (MUNACA) surprised their executive,… Read More »MUNACA snubs another McGill proposal
Pictures speak louder than words
Matthew Forsythe’s graphic novel Ojingogo rethinks the relationship between words and images
Who is KK Downey?: hipster comedy hits home
We are the voiceless generation that has yet to do something genuinely new to define itself – so the argument goes. Enter Terrence, a man-child… Read More »Who is KK Downey?: hipster comedy hits home