Momentum is building to move the Hochelaga Rock to a more prominent location on campus. A symbol of Iroquoian and Canadian history, the rock currently sits on lower field in between the Roddick Gates and the Welcome Centre. The Hochelaga Rock was installed in the 1950s by Parks Canada to[Read More…]
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Dean Manfredi hosts final meeting of Open Forum
On Wednesday, April 4, the McGill administration hosted the last of four public meetings of dean of arts Christopher Manfredi’s Open Forum on Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly. The meeting focused on the administration’s actions in response to the events of Nov. 10. It was held in the Bellini[Read More…]
2011-2012 Year in Review
MUNACA On the first day of classes, McGill students arrived on campus to the sound of picketing. MUNACA, the union representing roughly 1,700 of McGill’s non-academic staff, went on strike starting Sept. 1 after months of strained negotiations between the union and the university finally broke down. A better wage[Read More…]
As exam period nears, students still on strike
Michael Paolucci / McGill Tribune Michael Paolucci / McGill Tribune On Monday, April 2 the McGill Social Work Student Association (SWSA) voted in favour of renewing their unlimited strike against the Quebec government’s proposed tuition fee increases, with 49 for, 30 against, and 2 abstentions. As of today, SWSA has[Read More…]
Government won’t back down on fee increases
Last Thursday, April 5, Quebec Education Minister Line Beauchamp proposed a new student loans plan, in response to the student movement that has been opposing planned provincial tuition fee increases of $1,625 over five years. Beauchamp said that the government will not back down from the plan to increase tuition[Read More…]
Heather Munroe-Blum shared her plans for next year
On March 27, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum spoke to the McGill Tribune, the McGill Daily and Le Délit about this year’s events and what to look forward to in 2012. McGill Tribune: Next year will be your last year McGill’s principal. What are your goals for your last term, and what[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor
The current situation in Queer McGill (QM) is one of corruption and infighting which continues to push the organization further and further towards irrelevance. In Tribune columnist, Abraham Moussako’s article “Safe Space Strife” on March 26, he outlined how I had been dismissed from my position as QM Treasurer due[Read More…]
How to say goodbye when you’re not Schwarzenegger
For graduating students, April is the season of goodbyes. Everyone hates goodbyes, especially when the ones in question are more adieus than hasta la vistas, but we say them anyway, in one way or another. We wave to teachers as classes come to a close. We pack our student apartments[Read More…]
10 questions with … Evan Vossen
MT: How did it feel to win the CIS championship? EV: It’s a great feeling. The way things happened in terms of the history of the franchise, the program-which is 136 years old-not winning after what we went through last year in terms of losing in the finals, and then[Read More…]
A chat with this year’s three Tomlinson Prize winners
Andrew Hendry , Department of Biology Tell us about your current research. In essence, my research is trying to understand how ecology and evolution interact. So trying to understand how ecological differences in the environment shape the evolutionary trajectories of populations and shape evolutionary diversification, that’s the origins of biodiversity. On[Read More…]