Simon Poitrimolt   Last Wednesday, a panel discussion on the topic of genocide prevention, with a focus on mobilising international intervention, took place at McGill in Chancellor Day Hall. The event was hosted by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum, McGill’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP), and the[Read More…]

  This past Sunday McGill finally appeared to have run out of patience with the James Administration building “partiers” and had police escort them out. Unsurprisingly, the occupation ended without McGill meeting the group’s demands. However, the occupiers were certainly successful in sparking conversation on campus. While much of the[Read More…]

McGill Tribune   The SSMU & MCSS Student Senators would like articulate our reactions to the events of the last month. From consultations with the student body, it is clear that the vast majority of McGill students want the same things: accessible education, consultation, open communication, and a better campus[Read More…]

  In a letter sent to McGill University on Feb. 10, a group of 32 individuals called on McGill University to perform an independent and transparent investigation into the influence of the Quebec asbestos industry over Professor J. Corbett McDonald’s epidemiological research on the health effects of chrysotile asbestos. This[Read More…]

Best Actor   Who will win: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Before the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards, this category looked like a fight between Dujardin and George Clooney (The Descendants). Once the SAG went to the effervescent Frenchmen, the race appeared to be closing in on an early end. Neither[Read More…]

  The Martlet and Redmen swimming teams competed in the RSEQ championship this past weekend. The Marlets captured the Quebec university title for the first time in eight years, placing ahead of Laval by a narrow margin. A few standouts were Lei Lopez, Laura Mendonca, and Sophie Overney-Ragan, who each[Read More…]

  Last Monday, Feb. 13 marked the end of the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) Winter Special Referendum. The referendum posed a question amending the AUS constitution to make the General Assembly the supreme governing body of the AUS instead of Council. The change in the governing structure of the AUS[Read More…]

readingrevels.com   Inheritance is about dragons, their riders, an elf princess, and an evil, all-powerful king. But at its core, the last novel in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle is a coming-of-age novel. Throughout his adventures, the main character, Eragon, undergoes drastic change, which coincides with the growth and improvement of[Read More…]

Sam Reynolds Last Sunday morning, the nine students who remained on the sixth floor of the James Administration Building were peacefully evicted by the police. The students had occupied the sixth floor for 118 hours. On Feb. 7, a group of 21 students entered the office of the Deputy Provost[Read More…]