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Are we complicit in marginalization?

Ian Beattie • March 18, 2010

The Daily’s Ian Beattie challenges the paper’s response to opponents of pro-life groups Read More

The Daily’s Guide for News Writers

admin • March 18, 2010

If you are new to writing news for The Daily, please read this guide in full before writing your story. And be sure to send us your phone number as soon as you pick up your first assignment. It’s important that you understand our particular approach to news so that… Read More

In the final analysis

Sana Saeed • March 18, 2010

Activist communities must be less all-or-nothing in their judgments Read More

Ontario nuclear workers exposed to radiation

admin • March 18, 2010

Almost 200 workers may have been exposed to unhealthy amounts of radioactivity last November at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, Ontario. According to an online news release by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Canada’s nuclear safety watchdog, “on November 28, 2009, routine… Read More

SSMU and Milton-Parc work together

Jeff Bishku-Aykul • March 18, 2010

An information session for a new initiative to improve ties between students and residents of the Milton-Parc neighbourhood was held in the Notre Dame Church Tuesday. The McGill administration, SSMU, and the Milton-Parc Citizens Committee (MPCC) have together coordinated the Community Action and Relations Endeavor (CARE), and seek to provide… Read More

Nose candy and the Freudians who love it

Daniel Lametti • March 17, 2010

Susceptibility to addiction depends on your environment Read More

Stop punishing addicts

Sam Neylon • March 15, 2010

Drug policy discussions often take the form of a binary: treatment versus enforcement. Carrots and sticks. This is however, a problematic and wildly uneven binary. Treatment is not a carrot. Treatment is a long and arduous process that, at its best, acknowledges the complex nature of addiction and recovery –… Read More

Putting the “I” back in medicine

Whitney Mallett • March 15, 2010

Self-medication should be a right Read More

Black market hormones

Quinn Albaugh • March 15, 2010

Bootleg prescription drugs put trans folks’ lives in danger Read More

Naturopathic medicine is whack

Riva Gold • March 15, 2010

What’s legal and causes the death and permanent disability of thousands of men, women, and children each year? Alternative medicine: the greatest natural disaster plaguing today’s society. Canadian federal and provincial policies toward naturopathic drugs and herbal remedies need to be reconsidered to protect patients from serious harms and misinformation. Read More

Des illusions d’optique obsédantes

Joël Thibeault • March 15, 2010

Avec la collaboration très spéciale de Petit Crouton et de Cracky Crack Read More

Disabled? See you later

Hannah Freeman • March 11, 2010

Canada’s “excessive demand” restriction on immigration is discriminatory Read More

Downwardly mobile & loving it

Lisam • March 11, 2010

Growing up as a middle-class white kid, I thought everyone was like me. Books and TV narrated my experiences, my neighbourhood and schools shared my family’s values, and I saw myself reflected in the faces of my friends and teachers. We rarely worried about money; I saw doctors on the… Read More

Whose culture is it?

William M. Burton • March 9, 2010

Taking on the myth that Quebec’s culture belongs to a select few Read More

Gerts in the black; unused funds for speakers

Erin Hale • March 6, 2010

The revised SSMU budget presented at Council on Thursday evening revealed that Gerts and the SSMU Operations Committee may break even this year. The Operations Committee ended last year with an $85,633 deficit. In the revised budget the deficit now stands at $6,410. The deficit for Gerts is down from… Read More