At Norman Bethune Square on October 27, the Concordia Student Union, Überculture, Free Education Montreal, Sustainable Concordia, and Tap Drinkers Against Privatization (TAPThirst) gathered to protest the Concordia administration’s decision to sign an exclusive PepsiCo contract without student consultation. TAPThirst, an organization that advocates against the bottled water industry, was[Read More…]
Author: Zach Connerty-Marin
Quebec nurses’ union strikes historic deal
It was a banner day last weekend for the province’s largest nurses’ union, the Quebec Interpersonal Health Federation (FIQ). After a year of tense negotiations with the provincial government, the FIQ reached an agreement in principle, which will provide significant gains to the 58,000 members of the union. The agreement[Read More…]
Panelists urge greater actions to defend children’s rights
Holly Stewart How can it be that 250 million children under the age of five are alive right now and don’t have a birth certificate? How can there be 13 countries currently listed by the United Nations’ Security Council that are at war with children engaged as combatants, as cooks,[Read More…]
AUS attacks its debts
In the face of numerous unanticipated financial difficulties that have come to light this semester, the Arts Undergraduate Society’s Executive unveiled their Financial Recovery Plan to the AUS Council last Wednesday. “Like the real Marshall Plan, this isn’t just us throwing foreign aid at something,” he said. “It’s a plan[Read More…]
Back to blog basics
Cooking is a science, and a fun and delicious one at that. And like any science, experimentation is key. Julia Child meticulously tested her recipes, which is why they’re still the heart and soul of so many kitchens. Unfortunately, Child is partly to blame for the plethora of food blogs[Read More…]
Suprising space savers
During exams, your apartment is probably going to end up looking like the site of a pipe bomb explosion. It also means you won’t have the time or money to make another trip to Ikea for assorted Scandinavian organizing junk. Instead, some ordinary household objects can be used to tidy[Read More…]
WebCT quotation of the week
Subject: Research Project: TA will answer questions here Author: Student I’ve sent text messages longer than this effing essay.
Hipsters aren’t hipsters
Nowadays, it seems that when a subculture springs up it’s given a name before a proper definition. Remember the word “emo?” All of a sudden there was an umbrella term for a group made up of wildly different characteristics: Dashboard Confessional fans lumped in with The Cure fans, people who[Read More…]
Overheard @ SSMU
In anticipation of the new school year, the Tribune sat down with SSMU’s executives to see what they accomplished over the summer and what big items are on their plate for the coming year. Our photographers, meanwhile, asked them to physically demonstrate their eagerness to spend long hours at their[Read More…]
J-Board dismisses petition against Newburgh
In a June 24 decision, the Students’ Society Judicial Board dismissed the petition put forward by the McGill chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights against Zach Newburgh, the former speaker of SSMU Council. In the factum submitted last March, SPHR claimed that as chair of last winter’s General Assembly,[Read More…]
