Michael Paolucci / McGill Tribune Last Thursday, March 29, SSMU Council discussed the status of the lease on the Shatner Building. “We’ve been in negotiations about the lease since our mandate was not renewed some time in the first semester,” Emily Yee Clare, VP University Affairs, said. Last November, Council[Read More…]
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Montreal’s Inter-Tribal Youth Centre closes indefinitely
The Inter-Tribal Youth Centre (ITYC) was closed indefinitely on Friday, March 30 due to funding shortages. The ITYC was located in the basement of its parent organisation, the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal (NFCM), and together they constituted the frontline in sheltering Montreal’s urban aboriginal community. The ITYC was the[Read More…]
Students mobilize in four-pronged protest
Sam Reynolds / McGill Tribune Michael Paolucci / McGill Tribune Last Thursday, March 29, a four-pronged student demonstration wound its way through downtown Montreal in a festively themed demonstration that aimed to disrupt the economic activity of the downtown area and highlight several political grievances of the students. The protest,[Read More…]
Motion to censure SSMU VP External fails by vote of 11-11-1
Michael Paolucci Michael Paolucci A motion to censure SSMU VP External JoÃl Pedneault failed at SSMU Council’s meeting last Thursday, March 29, with a narrow vote of 11 for, 11 against, and one abstention. The motion, submitted to the floor by nine movers, cited several reasons to censure Pedneault, including[Read More…]
VP Pedneault among students excluded from campus
On March 26, the McGill administration excluded SSMU VP External JoÃl Pedneault and two other anonymous McGill students from the McGill campus until Friday, March 30, a total of five days. Pedneault’s exclusion from the campus followed an incident after an UQAM professor held his class in room 348 of[Read More…]
Seminar discusses sexual slavery in Asia during WWII
Alexandra Allaire / McGill Tribune Last Friday, March 30, the McGill Golden Key Society and the East Asian Students’ Association hosted “Sexual Slavery and the Asian Holocaust: A Seminar on the Comfort Women Issue in East women.” These comfort women were the thousands of women from Korea, China, and other[Read More…]
Internal review on asbestos research is inconclusive
On Tuesday April 3, Dr. David Eidelman, vice principal (health affairs) and dean of medicine, announced the completion of the preliminary internal review of professor J. Corbett McDonald’s research on the health effects ofchrysotile asbestos. The review was conducted by professor and chair of the department of epidemiology, biostatistics, and occupational health Dr.[Read More…]
Motion to censure SSMU VP JoÃl Pedneault fails by narrow vote of 11-11-1
VP External JoÃl Pedneault among three students excluded from McGill campus
On March 26, SSMU VP External JoÃl Pedneault and two other anonymous McGill students were excluded from the McGill campus for five days, until Friday, March 30. Pedneault’s exclusion from the campus followed an incident after a UQAM professor held his class in room 348 of the Frank Dawson Adams[Read More…]
Redpath Museum celebrates 130th anniversary
Sam Reynolds / McGill Tribune On Thursday, March 22, McGill’s Redpath Museum celebrated its 130th Anniversary with the official launch of the Redpath Museum Club’s new publication, Behind the Roddick Gates. The event included presentations by student contributors to the journal and a retelling of the museum’s history. Completed in[Read More…]
