Being on the sold-out dancefloor of Newspeak last Friday felt like being transported to a smoke-filled Manchester warehouse or an underground party in the heart of Sheffield. For Montreal’s UK bass community, this was no ordinary club night. Feb. 13 had occupied calendars for several months, as rising garage producer[Read More…]
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Against reducing, reusing, and recycling
As a full-time English Literature student and part-time movie-watcher, one of my greatest pleasures is building a mental web of intertextuality: The way texts are influenced by, adapted from, or allude to previous texts. Canonical works such as the Bible, Greek and Roman classics, and Shakespearean plays have long served[Read More…]
From Montreal to Milano Cortina: McGillians at the Olympics
This year, over two dozen McGillians took part in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy. Current McGill students and staff were among the athletes, coaches, officials, and media professionals shaping the Games both on and off the ice. One of the most high-profile figures is Lilah Fear,[Read More…]
Players’ Theatre’s ‘The One Act Play That Goes Wrong’ is its worst play yet
“I didn’t know this was supposed to be bad,”—I overheard the audience member next to me whisper. This sentence perfectly encapsulates the theatrical genius of Players’ Theatre’s newest play, The One Act Play That Goes Wrong, which ran from Feb. 17 to Feb 20. Originally written by Henry Lewis, Henry[Read More…]
The politics of protection
On Nov. 6, 2025, Quebec Minister of Immigration Jean-François Roberge abolished the Programme de l’expérience québécoise (PEQ), a program designed to help foreign students and workers obtain Canadian citizenship. This abolition erases the progress of those in this program, forcing them to seek different paths to citizenship. This measure is[Read More…]
SSMU LC discusses fee renewals, McLennan library, and DriveSafe
The Students’ Society of McGill University’s (SSMU) Legislative Council (LC) convened for the third time this semester on Thursday, Feb. 12, beginning with an introduction of the new recording secretary, Alissa Gharzouzi. Vice-President (VP) Clubs and Services Hamza Abu Alkhair then proposed an amendment to the agenda, seeking to advance[Read More…]
McGill Senate confronts the rise of AI and undergraduate enrolment pressures
On Feb. 11, the McGill Senate convened for its sixth meeting of the academic year. The senators discussed the Accountability and Implementation of the Policy of Assessment of Student Learning, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a broad university context, the proposed strategic plan on undergraduate enrolment and engagement,[Read More…]
The Harlem Globetrotters: A complicated piece of basketball’s history
In 1950, Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper, and Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) as the league’s first Black athletes. Cooper was the first to be drafted, Clifton was the first to sign an NBA contract, and Lloyd became the first Black player to enter an NBA game[Read More…]
Montreal protests GardaWorld’s complicity in ICE immigration crackdown
On Feb. 13, around 1,000 people gathered outside Place Vertu to protest the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown on illegal immigration and their aggressive treatment of migrants and citizens alike. The protestors decried the involvement of GardaWorld, a Canadian, Montreal-based private security firm whose U.S. subsidiary, GardaWorld Federal[Read More…]
Canada’s AI strategy risks further propagating anti-Black racism
In September 2025, Minister of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon created the federal AI Strategy Task Force to provide recommendations on the role of AI in Canadian economic and social life. The Task Force conducted an extensive consultation of over 11,300 industry leaders, academic researchers, and civil[Read More…]