In her most recent annual report, Montreal’s Auditor General Andrée Cossette found that the city is far behind its composting target. Right now, about 55 per cent of the waste Montrealers send to the landfill is organic material that could have been composted instead; the city aims to bring that[Read More…]
Commentary
Meta’s $18 billion USD settlement is just loose change
Meta Platforms, Inc. has signed an $18 billion USD settlement resolving claims brought forward by nearly every American state that the corporation violated the Federal Trade Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. The lawsuit alleges that the company built Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms, autoplay features, and notification systems to keep[Read More…]
Quebec must address its homelessness crisis through preventative, not punitive, measures
After years of government negligence and punitive policies targeting unhoused people, the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative (QHPC) has created a set of guidelines to confront homelessness in the province. The collaborative, co-founded by McGill University and the Old Brewery Mission and now involving over 20 research and advocacy groups, seeks[Read More…]
The U.S. must play its part in fighting North American—not Canadian—wildfires
U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to Canada: A tariff hike over wildfire smoke. As of July 28, 893 active fires are burning from British Columbia to the Atlantic provinces, affecting over 3.7 million hectares of land and forcing Canadians to flee their homes amid evacuation orders. Individuals who come[Read More…]
Critics must balance linguistic priorities with human impact when discussing Air Canada’s faux pas
On March 22, an Air Canada plane departing from Montreal collided with a Port Authority firetruck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The crash, which tragically killed pilots Captain Antoine Forest and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther, elicited an outpouring of grief. Shortly after the event, Air Canada CEO Michael[Read More…]
Campus Conversations: Memory
Are these the good old days? Julie Raout, Staff Writer “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.” The Office’s Andy Bernard nudges us with a gentle reminder that happiness often goes unnoticed until it has slipped away. Haven’t[Read More…]
The pattern behind Hassan’s denial of entry
Rima Hassan, a French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament (MEP), was denied entry into Canada days before she was scheduled to attend conferences in Montreal on the suppression of Palestinian advocacy and the rise of the far right. Canada’s Office of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship (IRCC) did not provide a specific[Read More…]
Forgetting sexual assault survivors implicitly forgives their aggressors
In March 2026, former teacher and Bloc Québécois (Bloc) member of Parliament Pascal-Pierre Paillé was arrested and charged with sexual offences involving two minors, the allegations dating back to 2006 and as recently as August 2024. Paillé, who represented the riding of Louis-Hébert for the Bloc from 2008 to 2011,[Read More…]
Bill 28 entrenches the devaluation of feminized labour
Trigger warning: mentions of violence In 2018, a nurse in Beauce had a miscarriage after a patient kicked her in the stomach. In 2020, a nurse in Montérégie-Est was strangled for several minutes. In 2023, a high‑school teacher in Laval was assaulted with scissors by a student in her classroom.[Read More…]
We can’t all be superheroes
One year ago, I wrote an article titled ‘Disruption is the essence of effective protest,’ arguing that radical activism is more effective than catering to the politically neutral, and that fence-sitters aren’t worth engaging with. But after another year spent watching and reporting on student activism, I can see that[Read More…]