McGill Tribune Last week, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ruled to allow a usage-based billing system for Internet Service Providers. The decision is anti-competitive and a disservice to technological advancement, and the federal government is right to force the CRTC to review its decision. In Canada, there are a[Read More…]
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Under the sea ain’t so pretty anymore
Sanctum 3D, based on true events, begins with a team of divers exploring an undiscovered cave system in the South Pacific’s Esa-ala Caves. When warnings of a tropical storm begin, the team is swiftly thrown into a spiral of disasters that trap them in the caves. With no way to[Read More…]
A letter to Egypt’s presidential hopefuls
McGill Tribune Dear Presidential Candidate, I promise you, even though we seem angry and persistent and uncompromising in our demand for national change today, you will find us to be a people who will gratefully settle for some pocket change tomorrow. The fact is, we are still recovering from a[Read More…]
Third year: the final countdown
McGill Tribune You know you’re in third-year when a) Most of your friends are caffeine addicts, and b) All your friends have anxiously started muttering phrases like “damn internships” and “admissions GPA” under their breath. Days of first-year bliss, when hitting the bib for 30 minutes on a Saturday would[Read More…]
Rethinking hockey’s age-old prejudices
Sometimes sports are just sports. Like the Super Bowl this weekend, they can be fun to watch and don’t mean much. Sometimes though, sports serve as a platform for a greater cause. I’m reminded of this because the day before the Super Bowl, February 5, was the one-year anniversary of[Read More…]
McGill Graduation bucket list
Whether you’re in U0 looking forward to the next three years out of residence, or in U3 trying to do all the things you said you wanted to do when you decided to come to McGill, there should be something on this list for you. After all, this is no[Read More…]
If your vagina could talk, what would it say?
Alice Walker From February 10-12, V-Day McGill brings their 10th anniversary edition of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues to the stage. Directed by Claire Hughes, this year’s performance features 16 cast members presenting monologues based on true stories of women throughout the world. The original Vagina Monologues are based[Read More…]
Bawk-bawk-bawk, hak-hak-hak, aka dah-da-da-DAH
Julian Haber Julian Haber When I read the tagline for Geordie Theatre’s MöcShplat—”Shakespeare … in a language you can finally understand”—I assumed they were being ironic. But this clown version of Macbeth, told only in gibberish, was not only easy to understand, it also made the plot and themes accessible[Read More…]
Council votes to censure Newburgh
Matt Essert The Students’ Society Council voted to publicly censure President Zach Newburgh in the predawn hours of Friday morning for his role in pursuing a contract with Jobbook.com, a new social networking website designed to match students at elite universities with potential employers. The deliberations and the vote to censure, which[Read More…]
The Facebook generation
On January 25, the nominations for the 83rd annual Academy Awards were announced. A film about a website received eight nominations This wouldn’t have been possible five years ago. The Social Network is important because Mark Zuckerberg changed our lives. It is about how we communicate, how we share, and[Read More…]