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Mohawk ironworkers assured work on Mercier bridge

Farid Rener • January 22, 2011

Dispute arises with local union Read More

McKinsey consulting bodes ill for McGill community

Commentary • January 22, 2011

This past November, McGill’s principal Heather Munroe-Blum announced that the management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co. would provide their services to McGill senior administrators for free. Considered the most high-profile company of their kind, McKinsey has worked for entities ranging from Enron to the British Cabinet Office, and has produced more… Read More

Bastarache commission clears Charest of influence peddling

Alexia Jablonski • January 20, 2011

Following weeks of public hearings and vitriolic accusations, Premier Jean Charest has been cleared of allegations of influence peddling in the judicial appointment process. Read More

The Players’ Theatre presents The Oresteia

Photos • January 18, 2011

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Cup Conference

Victor Tangermann • January 17, 2011

we had lots and lots of great fun Read More

World Expo in Shanghai

admin • January 14, 2011

Andrea Zhu discovers the many facets of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai Read More

Mini Courses overhaul showing signs of success

John Lapsley • January 13, 2011

Customer focus turning the program into one of SSMU's key revenue sources Read More

Have faith

Sam Neylon • December 1, 2010

Listen to the people's rage Read More

I believe in connections

Adrian Kaats • December 1, 2010

Many moons ago, a budding understanding of science led me to turf the ideas of an omnipotent and omniscient deity. I would likely have had a different, and perhaps more pleasant life, had I turfed science, but there’s an elegance, an immediacy, and a rationale to the sciences that have always suited my temperament, and so here I am, godless. Age, however, erodes everything, and that has included my belief in my own faithlessness. I’ve had a number of opportunities to discover just how full of faith I am. Particularly, I’ve found it necessary to try to describe that feeling of connectedness and purpose that, from time to time, arises apparently from nowhere, perhaps that place some call “soul.” A life of scientific study has led me to believe that although I can’t write you a system of equations to describe it, this feeling of connectedness is an emergent property of the interactions of various actors and forces in the highly complex, dynamical system we belong to, and which science seeks to describe. Simultaneously, my activities in industry, academia, and politics have all led me to understand that one cannot have blind faith in science, regardless of what it purports, since it’s produced by people. Not only are people subject to a number of corrosive influences which taint our products, “to err is human,” and those errors appear everywhere. Read More

Art, science, faith

Shaina Agbayani • December 1, 2010

The politics undergirding our beliefs Read More

Two cents: The subversive in support of the good is the annoying

Whitney Mallett • November 29, 2010

First, there was a commercial for Breast Cancer Week a couple years ago that showed a lot of cleavage and caused a bit of a media storm. Then, this summer, all the prudish girls I went to high school with started posting on Facebook that they liked it on the… Read More

The case for religion

Anqi Zhang • November 29, 2010

Karen Armstrong's book takes faith back to basics Read More

Keeping the faith

Nader Fotouhi • November 29, 2010

For many, sports are a religious experience Read More

Superstitious for success

Ben Makuch • November 29, 2010

The idiosyncratic rituals of athletes Read More