Last Thursday’s Students’ Society of McGill University’s (SSMU) legislative council opened with a discussion of the SSMU executives’ open letter to the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS), which addressed the poor organization and communication before and during the AUS General Assembly (GA) last Tuesday. The letter, published online in the McGill[Read More…]
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An open letter from SSMU
To the AUS Executive Committee: We would like to congratulate you on an extremely well-attended General Assembly last night. We would also like to express our extreme disappointment and frustration concerning the poor communication, organization, and attitude which shaped your response to the unexpected numbers and thus took[Read More…]
EUS President Josh Redel wins SSMU presidency by 23 votes
The position of president of the Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) was decided by just 23 votes in the winter referendum, announced on March 14 in Gerts. With 40.9 per cent of the vote, Engineering Undergraduate Society President Josh Redel defeated Shyam Patel, current SSMU VP Finance and Operations,[Read More…]
Motion to strike defeated at AUS GA
Sam Reynolds / McGill Tribune Sam Reynolds / McGill Tribune Arts undergraduates voted against entering an unlimited student strike at a special General Assembly (GA) held on Tuesday, March 13. The motion, which was defeated by a vote of 609 to 495 and included 16 abstentions, would have allowed the[Read More…]
MCSS and PGSS vote to go on limited strike
Last week, the Macdonald Campus Students’ Society (MCSS) voted to go on a one-day strike on March 22. The Post Graduate Students’ Society (PGSS) also voted to go on a three-day strike from March 20 to March 22. March 22 is the National Day of Action against tuition increases, when[Read More…]
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Martlets miss golden opportunity, win CIS bronze
Rick MacWilliam / Edmonton Journal There are few athletic organisations that have been pegged with “win gold or bust” expectations. Canada’s Olympic hockey teams, however, are always held to this high standard. Thanks to their consistant success in the past 12 years, the team is now held to the same[Read More…]
Nothing holy about these Saints
Millions of people, devout and non-devout fans alike, engage in fantasy football leagues every year. As fantasy team managers, we often cheer for opposing teams’ players to get hurt and miss a few quarters for the purpose of winning our matchups. Cruel, perhaps, but the moral lines in fantasy football[Read More…]
From sainthood to St. Sulpice
While most people find an excuse to get out and party on St. Patrick’s day, such as “my great uncle was Irish,” or “Liam Neeson is my favourite actor,” or “I just really, really love Lucky Charms,” many don’t really know why they’re celebrating, or even who Saint Patrick was.[Read More…]
The return of the Jets
Any self-respecting columnist writing on Canada cannot let this year saunter by without spending at least one—I pitched ten, but my editor emphasized one—column on the Winnipeg Jets. This story of prairie power should be trumpeted from the rooftops, but given the country’s current milieu of potential election fraud and[Read More…]