A brightly coloured and easy-to-make soup to warm you up when the weather and midterms are getting you down… Ingredients 2 cups chopped carrots (about 4 medium) 2 chopped medium parsnips 1 small onion 1 medium potato 3 cups vegetable stock 1 ½ cups milk Instructions 1) Sauté the vegetables[Read More…]
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Two new colourful concoctions
Tropic Thunder Ingredients Approx. 1 cup Orange Juice 2 ½ oz Blue Curaçao Dash of triple sec (optional) This is a simple and sweet drink for those of us who are feeling nostalgic for summertime. It is served on the rocks in a tall glass. Start by pouring the juice[Read More…]
Satay Brothers serve up taste of tradition
In the summer of 2011, Alex and Mat Winnicki opened up a quaint seasonal food stand called Satay Brothers at the Atwater Market. The brothers were astonished with the extraordinary response to their traditional Singaporean street food. Customers quickly began flocking back to their humble shack due to the exceptional[Read More…]
2012 MLB Awards
With playoff baseball underway, the MLB’s best individual performances from the season will be awarded in the coming weeks. A Tribune contributor predicts who he thinks will take home the hardware. National League MVP: Buster Posey The San Francisco Giants finished last season with a disappointing 86-76 record, having lost[Read More…]
Sports Briefs
Martlet Hockey: McGill opens Regular Season with a Win, Daoust Records Five Points in Victory Ranked as the number two team in Canada in the inaugural CIS Women’s Hockey Top 10, McGill opened its RSEQ schedule with an authoritative 8-1 away victory against Concordia last Saturday. Second-year centre Mélodie Daoust led the[Read More…]
FEATURE: McGill Then and Now…
86-year-old Betty McCullough watched the televised celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee this summer and thought back to one of her fondest memories as a student at McGill’s graduate school for nursing. At 25 years old, she’d clutched her camera as she waited amongst a crowd of students, staff,[Read More…]
PGSS Council discusses McGill and Quebec education summits
Last Wednesday, the Post-Graduate Students’ Society (PGSS) held its October council meeting. The meeting featured discussion about the upcoming Quebec and McGill Education Summits, and included a presentation by a representative from the Fédération Étudiante Universitaire du Québec (FEUQ). The newly elected Parti Québécois (PQ) government is to hold a[Read More…]
Judicial Board hears case on AUS Winter Referendum period
On Oct. 2, the Judicial Board (J-Board) of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) heard the case of Bangs vs. Calver and Cheng, regarding the results of last winter’s referendum period for the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS). The J-Board has 15 days to deliver a verdict on the case.[Read More…]
Philosophy Students’ Association to Seek Financial Independence from AUS
The Philosophy Students’ Association (PSA) is looking into the possibility of separating their finances from the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS). The PSA’s announcement came after the AUS’ decision earlier this semester to internalize faculty associations’ bank accounts. This means that the AUS would act as the PSA’s bank account, holding[Read More…]
What happened last week in Canada?
XL Beef Recall Largest in Canadian history Canadian officials have come under scrutiny over their handling of the largest recall of beef in Canadian history when Albertan beef packer XL Foods continued running its plant for two weeks after the U.S. determined that its meat was unfit to cross the American[Read More…]