admin • October 1, 2010

October 2 | Ukrainian Assocation (5213 Hutchinson) Read More

Madeleine Cummings • October 1, 2010

October 2 | Cagibi (5490 St. Laurent) Read More

William M. Burton • September 30, 2010

It's time we start respecting the world's oldest profession Read More

admin • September 29, 2010

Blasphemous libel is still a crime under section 296(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada. The last time someone was found guilty of such a crime was in 1935 (R. vs. Rahard), when an Anglican reverend was prosecuted for displaying a poster denouncing the Roman Catholic Church. The court found… Read More

Niko Block • September 29, 2010

The lockdown on bikes sucks, and the vast majority of the people at Thursday’s Open Forum on Cycling and Pedestrian Safety made that explicitly clear. Vice-President (University Services) Jim Nicell first went through his ten-minute PowerPoint on the “Planning and Design Principles of the McGill University Physical Master Plan,” stressing… Read More

Shaina Agbayani • September 27, 2010

Jessica Yee and Melissa Elliott spoke at Concordia University September 23, at a panel discussion on Aboriginal youth rights. Elliott is the co-founder of Young Onkwehonwe United (YOU), a Six Nations youth group. Yee is a member of Akwesasne First Nations and the founder of the Native Youth Sexual Health… Read More

Alexia Jablonski • September 27, 2010

Newly appointed education minister Line Beauchamp is promising action on her predecessor’s pledge to cut McGill’s funding in response to MBA tuition hikes, the minister’s office told The Daily on Friday. According to Beauchamp’s press officer Dave Leclerc, speaking in French, the education minister is “still reflecting” about her position,… Read More

Henry Gass • September 27, 2010

The Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) released its 2010-2011 budget at its Council meeting last Wednesday. The budget projects a total deficit of $6,739, but that number relies on all AUS events breaking even for the rest of the year. AUS President Dave Marshall expressed his confidence in all the year’s… Read More

Erin Hale • September 14, 2010

Mismanagement, miscommunication cited as causes Read More

admin • September 9, 2010

Quebec has a way of valorizing its artists not found elsewhere in Canada, and its poets are no exception. They come with their own mythologies. Take Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, a man better looking than Robert Pattinson, who changed the course of Québécois poetry before dying young, and still beautiful,… Read More

Niko Block • September 1, 2010

There is something decisively anarchic about bikes. It’s not just the tattoos and the tank-tops and bandanas that I’m talking about: bikers ignore just about every traffic signal, we pull ridiculous moves to avoid putting our feet down at a red light, we flip off drivers at every available opportunity,… Read More

William M. Burton • September 1, 2010

Your friendly neighbourhood Commentary editor on opinions and being broke at McGill Read More

Rana Encol • September 1, 2010

People say that there are two sides to every story. But I’ve come to understand that this perception stems from personal interest: there’s “our side” and then there’s everyone else’s. Bias develops when we have a certain interest in something. All of the sudden, everything enters black-and-white terms. Somebody walks… Read More

Eric Andrew-Gee • August 26, 2010

Youth taken away in an ambulance; injuries still unknown Read More

Eric Andrew-Gee • July 12, 2010

By 5:30 p.m., on Saturday, June 26, Toronto’s Yonge St. looked like a scene from the London Blitz. Dozens of protestors had used “black bloc” tactics to smash their way through the commercial heart of Toronto, shattering windows, trashing stores and terrifying shoppers and business owners. The rampage went unchecked… Read More