Since receiving unanimous acclaim for his Kush & Orange Juice mixtape in 2009, Wiz Khalifa has quickly gone from underground notoriety to mainstream recognition. This first major label album (though officially his third overall) marks his grand entrance to the growing Top 40 pop/hip-hop genre. His breakout hit, “Black and[Read More…]
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The Evolution of Braids
alarmpress.com Fresh from the release of their first LP, Native Speaker, Braids is just finishing up the final leg of a North American tour. With a handful of shows scheduled over the next week in Canada and the U.S., Braids is set to play the tour’s final gig on Friday[Read More…]
Rebels with a cause
damonwise.blogspot.com As a wave of revolutions sweep the Middle East, Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside The Law arrives in North America at an important time. The film relates the traumatic experience of the movement for Algerian colonial independence, anchoring its viewers in both French and Algerian settings. Outside the Law is the[Read More…]
Summer reading list from McGill’s most popular profs
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Jon Elster gives talk
Columbia University’s Jon Elster, a renowned scholar in rational choice theory, delivered the René Cassin Lecture in the Faculty of Law on Thursday entitled “Justice, Truth, and Peace.” In a discussion attended mainly by Law professors and students, Elster argued that most of the time, justice, truth, and peace don’t[Read More…]
Students reach out to Japan
On March 11, Shaon Basu, like many Japanese students at McGill, panicked as he learned of the tragic events unfolding back home. “I freaked out, quite honestly,” said Basu, a U2 physiology student. “It was after one of my labs and I came to know about it from a string[Read More…]
U.S.-Canada relations conference draws prominent politicians
Alice Walker Alice Walker Last week, the Omni Hotel on Sherbrooke hosted the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada’s annual conference, this year titled, “Canada and the United States: Conversations and Relations.” The conference brought together high-ranking decision-makers from the U.S. and Canada to engage in conversation with the[Read More…]
Liberals kick off federal campaign with Montreal rally
Holly Stewart The Liberal Party 2011 election campaign began Sunday night with a rally at Montreal’s performing centre TOHU, where diverse attendees voiced their support for party leader Michael Ignatieff and their local MPs as well as their distrust in Harper’s leadership. At the rally, a DJ played tracks in[Read More…]
McGill website begins redesign
The McGill website is being revamped. The university’s website redesign team is gathering feedback in a survey to ensure the new changes are beneficial to the large number of visitors who access the site daily. McGill’s team of web editors is redesigning of all the pages that are linked[Read More…]