The cleanup of McGill’s downtown campus continues this week after severe flooding occurred on Jan. 28. Several buildings remain inaccessible to students and staff, and several hundred people have been relocated until building repairs are completed. The flood occurred when a 48- inch water main at the McTavish Reservoir broke,[Read More…]
Author: Admin
Petitions call for divestment from fossil fuels, Plan Nord
On Friday afternoon, Divest McGill delivered two petitions to the university’s Secretary-General, Stephen Strople, calling for McGill to divest from the Plan Nord, the oil sands, and fossil fuel industries. According to administrative practice, the petitions will be passed on to the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility[Read More…]
Re: “Cuts and an inconsequential conversation” (Jan 29)
Abraham Moussako’s latest article “Cuts and an inconsequential conversation” is an example of the tired and monotonous intellectual sludge which has come to define his contributions to the McGill Tribune. In his article, Moussako claims he hoped this year would be free of past turmoil. He then goes on to[Read More…]
Security must be prioritized in Dawson expulsion
Dawson College student Ahmed Al-Khabaz caught nationwide attention last month after his expulsion for hacking into the school’s security system. Al-Khabaz claimed that he did so to check on a security flaw that he had reported weeks earlier, that he had no malicious intent, and had made no attempt to[Read More…]
Chicken Noodle Soup: Fact or Fiction?
After the debauchery that is Winter Carnival and the exhausting weekends of Igloofest, many of McGill’s finest have begun to suffer from the effects of the common cold. Although cures like sage extract, licorice tea, and kissing a mule’s muzzle—a bit of creative flare on the part of the Romans—[Read More…]
App Reviews
Better Me For those who have trouble making their 8:30 a.m. classes, ‘BetterMe’ provides a fun and ingenious way to wake up in the morning. The app is based on a simple idea—post a status update on your Facebook profile each time you hit that dreaded snooze button. Essentially, ‘BetterMe’[Read More…]
Up close and personal with the human brain
Not many students can say they have touched a human brain, but thanks to the Neuroscience Undergraduates of McGill (NUM), I— along with around 130 other McGill students—can attest to holding not one, but six. On Jan 30, NUM hosted the first event of its kind at McGill: Touching Human[Read More…]
Black History Month in Montreal
High school textbooks of Canadian history have told, generation after generation, the tale of a settler colony besieged by territorial struggles between French pioneers and British conquerors— with a brief mention in between of the Indigenous peoples who had inhabited the vast territory for millennia before them. Canada’s popular culture[Read More…]
Pintxos offers tasty tapas with a Basque flair
Three weeks after Christmas, I still had not gotten my girlfriend a gift. In a last-ditch effort, I decided to plan her a romantic night out to an expensive restaurant. As a student, my knowledge of Montreal’s fine dining was limited to O. Noir, ‘that crazy blind place’ I’d been[Read More…]
Student of the Week
Q: You were nominated for your success on the McGill chess team during the recent CUCC, can you talk about that? A: A bunch of schools [like] McMaster, University of Toronto, Waterloo, Queen’s, and a [few others] all came together to compete. There are four boards, and they’re ranked, so[Read More…]