Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) President Dymetri Taylor and McGill’s Interim Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Angela Campbell announced on Sept. 4, via joint email statement, that SSMU and McGill have negotiated a new Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) after a summer of mediation. The mediation process followed Campbell’s[Read More…]
Author: Mairin Burke
All ages aboard: Making public transport more accessible for older adults
A city’s public transit system should serve the needs of all its inhabitants and leave no citizen behind. However, many older adults living in Canadian cities are reluctant to use these services, relying on their cars instead. Meredith Alousi-Jones, a PhD candidate in McGill’s School of Urban Planning, and her[Read More…]
“Rogue Archives”: QPIRG’s School Schmool agenda returns in 2025-2026
The Quebec Public Interest Research Groups (QPIRG) at McGill and Concordia launched the 2025-2026 edition of their annual daily planner and guide for students, School Schmool on Sept. 4. The agenda’s goal is to inform students of practical anti-oppressive resources on both universities’ campuses and around Montreal. School Schmool also[Read More…]
Beyond the court: The Ostapenko-Townsend dispute
On Aug. 27, tennis players Jelena Ostapenko and Taylor Townsend got into a verbal altercation after the second round of the 2025 US Open. After an intense matchup where Townsend defeated the Latvian in straight sets 7-5, 6-1, Ostapenko initiated a heated conversation that ended in her saying that Townsend[Read More…]
The search for the perfect summer read
Soft gusts of breeze billow through loose hair as the sun reflects off bleached book pages. There is a prodding sharpness of salty seas and a deep odour of oak groves. A blow of wheat and pollen caresses overgrown fields; wind fights the fluttering pages of a book. The beginning[Read More…]
McGill seeking a public relations agency for rebranding support
McGill is expected to select a public relations agency this September to help it carry out a rebranding campaign, attempting to reposition how the Quebec government and McGill’s students and donors perceive the university. The potential rebranding deal could cost McGill up to $6.7 million CAD. Student protests, tuition hikes,[Read More…]
Sleep to dream: In defense of napping
If you know me, you are aware that I suffer from a serious problem—one that strains friendships, disrupts schedules, and even alters the very fabric of reality. I am too often caught with indented lines strewn across my cheek like battle scars, my hair a knotted mess, and drool crusted[Read More…]
‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ shatters the Western liberal ethos
This is going to be a poor book review. It is impossible to adequately editorialize upon Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Every line demands that its readers confront the Western liberal enterprise’s absolute apathy towards human suffering. If I had not expected to[Read More…]
Quebec fines LaSalle College $29.9 million CAD over anglophone student quota
LaSalle College overenrolled 716 and 1066 students in its English-speaking programs in 2023 and 2024 respectively. In response, the Quebec Government imposed a $30 million CAD penalty on the college, forcing the institution to postpone the school year kickoff, initially scheduled for Aug. 25. The cost of such substantial defunding[Read More…]
‘Essex Honey’ is a perfected orchestra of love, loss, and grief
Devonté Hynes, under the alias Blood Orange, entered the mainstream several years ago when his 2011 song, “Champagne Coast,” gained viral popularity on TikTok. After a six-year hiatus, he released a new album on Aug. 29, Essex Honey in which he contemplates grief, loss, and growing up. Within each song[Read More…]
