Yeah photos! Yeah Issue 5!
Author: Admin
Racism in Soccer
English soccer player John Terry resigned from further international matches this week. His retirement came amidst a hailstorm of controversy stemming from a well-publicised racial incident involving fellow Briton Anton Ferdinand in 2011. In his resignation statement, Terry announced that the Football Association had made the situation “untenable.” This is[Read More…]
First Board of Governors discusses enrollment, innovation
On Sept. 27, McGill’s Board of Governors (BoG) convened for the first time this fall to discuss the university’s goals this academic year. Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum opened the meeting with some remarks regarding enrollment strategies at the university. “We got the year off to a good start,” Munroe-Blum[Read More…]
“All the problems that we feel on land kind of disappear”
Conrad Anker and Kenny Broad are two explorers who have, respectively, scaled the highest peaks and dived into the deepest oceans on the planet. On Sept. 29, the two spoke at McGill in “An Evening of Field Research and Exploration,” a free public event hosted by the National Geographic Society.[Read More…]
What happened last week in Canada?
Justin Trudeau to run for leadership of Liberal Party Last Wednesday, reports surfaced that Justin Trudeau is to announce his bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada at a press conference today. The son of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Justin Trudeau has held a seat[Read More…]
Innushkueu women speak out against Plan Nord at Concordia
Tears and laughter found their space in a discussion titled “Defending the Land: Indigenous Women’s resistance to Plan Nord and community violence.” The event, held last Friday, was hosted by Concordia University’s Centre for Gender Advocacy’s Missing Justice campaign. Plan Nord is the provincial government’s plan to develop northern regions[Read More…]
To move forward, CLASSE must condemn violence
If you left home on the rainy afternoon of Sept. 22 and found yourself confused amidst a reiteration of the student protests that reached their height in May, you certainly weren’t alone. Many Montrealers were puzzled by the Saturday protest—after all, hadn’t the newly-elected PQ just rescinded the tuition increase[Read More…]
Why are American universities so expensive?
We have seen over the past year in Quebec that the issue of university tuition can be incredibly polarizing. Indeed, in much of the debate over the recent planned tuition hikes, anti-hike activists drew ominous comparisons not only with the higher rates in the rest of Canada, but with the[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor
In his recent article, “Moral superiority and student politics,” Abraham Moussako argues that students have no duty to participate in campus politics. I’d like to refute that idea by arguing that judgements about the duty to participate are necessarily made in reference to particular facts about a particular issue. In[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor
As a known student radical and victim of police brutality, I find Abraham Moussako’s Guest Column (“Moral superiority and student politics”) generally callous and presumptuous. In particular (and more relevant to my critique), I found the text personally offensive. In his recent opinion piece, he looks down upon the complex[Read More…]