A condensed-for-print version of this article was published in The Tribune’s Dec. 3, 2025 issue. On the evening of Nov. 20, members of varsity and club teams under the McGill Athletics portfolio were informed via email that 25 of 44 varsity and club teams will not have a future at[Read More…]
Author: Ivanna Zhang, Merce Kellner, Ethan Kahn, Mairin Burke
Behind one eviction notice: A community debate over land, contamination, and control
On a strip of land in Kahnawà:ke, where drivers speed toward the Honoré Mercier Bridge on Route 207, Jason Diabo’s Wild West Smoke & Vape shop now sits boxed in by a newly carved bypass road that diverts traffic from his storefront. In October 2025, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke[Read More…]
Viewpoint: The cost of community, learned in aunties’ basements
I was pulling at the grass on the Lower Field, talking about McGill with all the idealistic excitement of a first-year, when my friend (Canadian, white) said she was scared of “adult loneliness.” Once you graduate, she said, you never really see anyone again unless you really try. The other[Read More…]
Vroom! Reintroducing McGill Formula Electric
If you’ve walked through the McConnell Engineering Building, you may have wondered why on earth a racecar sits in the centre of the lobby. It seems vaguely fitting—after all, it is the engineering building—but the central questions remain: Who built it, and why? The answer: McGill Formula Electric (MFE). MFE[Read More…]
The Tribune presents: The best/worst of 2025
Best: Music Deadbeat by Tame Impala – Alexandra Lasser Tame Impala’s latest album, Deadbeat, introduces hypnotic beats and bold electronic psychedelia. The album opens with “My Old Ways,” where Kevin Parker, the musician behind Tame Impala, laments his inability to progress and evolve, instead sinking into his old habits and[Read More…]
Campus Conversations: Community
A love letter to the librarySarah McDonald, Science & Technology Editor If you’d have told me when I first got to McGill that my closest friendships would be forged in a library, there is no way I would have believed you, not even a little bit. Surely I’d make friends[Read More…]
Amnesty McGill panel highlights the urgent need to address Sudan’s ongoing genocide
On Nov. 26, Amnesty McGill hosted a speaker panel that brought attention to the ongoing genocide in Sudan—an issue that remains largely absent from mainstream media coverage. The panel featured Professor Jon Unruh from McGill’s Department of Geography and graduate student James Achuli, both of whom study conflict and development[Read More…]
Double, double, Oz is in trouble!
The releasification occurred on Nov. 21 at the 13th hour on the silver screen downstage-right of the Time Dragon Clock—the direct result of adaptifying Act One of Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz’s stage classic into a movie musical. Yes, the second act of Wicked—Wicked: For Good—is officially in theatres. Thank[Read More…]
Varsity Report Card: Fall 2025
Redbirds Baseball: C+ A rebuilding year showed in Men’s Baseball’s final record: 11–18, with a tough 3–11 mark on the road and no conference play on the schedule entering fall nationals. The team’s strong 8–6 home record kept the season from slipping further, as did steady pitching flashes and an[Read More…]
Uncovering Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD) results from the progressive loss of specific brain cells responsible for movement. As these neurons deteriorate, patients experience tremors and difficulty with balance and coordination. Although treatments can alleviate specific symptoms, nothing slows the progression of the disease. Projections estimate that by 2031, approximately 163,000 Canadians will[Read More…]
