Last week, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) issued a report on the state of campus free speech in 2012, in which the Calgary-based libertarian think-tank examined the degree and limits to free speech at Canadian universities. The overwhelming majority of schools in the report received failing grades. McGill’s[Read More…]
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The Tribune’s stance on the November referenda
Question regarding the CKUT Fee Increase — YES This question proposes a $1 increase in the opt-outable student fee of McGill’s campus-community radio station, CKUT. CKUT’s $4 fee has not increased since 1988. An increase indexed to inflation would bring their fee to $7. As a student-run media outlet that[Read More…]
In defence of American Apparel’s “Sandysale”
Last week, while tired U.S. election news finally began to wane on the side of repugnance and Halloween festivities were dampened by the last leg of midterms, the heavens concocted something exciting for media circuits and laypeople alike to discuss. Her name was Hurricane Sandy, and as of early last[Read More…]
What is this “See Kay You Tea” I keep hearing about?
It’s easy enough to convince someone that having an award-winning radio station on campus is a pretty rad thing. Flyering for the CKUT referendum the other day, I spoke to a first-year student whose eyes lit up when I told him how the radio station was trying to raise their[Read More…]
Is multiculturalism killing the core Canadian identity?
Two weeks ago, Statistics Canada released a report on Canadians’ linguistic characteristics. The report’s results suggest that while bilingualism is on the rise, about 20 per cent of Canadians reported speaking a language that wasn’t French or English at home. Following the publication of the report, the question of whether[Read More…]
Being critical of ‘objective facts’
In his article in the Oct. 30 edition of the Ottawa Citizen entitled, “Racism, sexism and classism, oh my,” Bruce Bawer attempts to seriously indict the humanities, citing a widespread presence of ideologically-driven pedagogy. The piece points to Guillermo Martínez de Velasco’s recent piece in the McGill Daily, “You are[Read More…]
On Tar Sands exceptionalism and ‘commodity fetishism’
Now that the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) has taken on a mandate to lobby the McGill Administration to divest from Tar Sands, many of us seem to agree—at least, on the topic of ‘goopy bitumen’ from Alberta. Ultimately, I still have a few questions about our priorities. When[Read More…]
Student of the Week
Q: Why are you an asset to McGill? A: I work with Drive Safe and, currently, I am doing research with … the chemical engineering department. Q: What do you like most about working with Drive Safe? A: Well, I mean I get to drive. I love driving. You feel[Read More…]
McGill students host “Who Needs Feminism?” week
The launch of McGill’s first “Who Needs Feminism?” week—an event organized by McGill students, took place last week. As part of the event, photographers took photographs of students and members of the McGill community holding signs reading, “I need feminism because…” followed by their personal explanations of its importance. Inspired[Read More…]
Daily Publication Society to hold existence referendum in winter
The Daily Publication Society (DPS), the student-run publisher of the McGill Daily and Le Délit, will not run its existence referendum until the Winter semester, at which time it will do so independently of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU). McGill requires student associations to hold existence referenda every[Read More…]