2012 was a tumultuous year for Quebec students. Over the course of the year, hundreds of thousands mobilized in opposition to the former Liberal government’s proposed tuition increases of $1,625 over five years. Following an election almost four months ago, the newly-elected Parti Québécois (PQ) government announced a tuition freeze.[Read More…]
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Home for the Holidays
Photos by Alexandra Allaire, Sam Reynolds, and Michael Paolucci.
Acts to Watch
Need playlist suggestions for finals? Looking to expand your musical palette for the coming year? Hoping to impress the resident hipsters in your classes with your musical foresight? We’ve got you covered with a roundup of acts that should make a big splash in the year ahead. Half Moon Run[Read More…]
Setting the stage for the future: English theatre in a French city
QS World University Rankings recently named Montreal one of the best student cities in the world, but you didn’t need a pollster to tell you that. Cheap food, cheap rent, and enough culture to last a lifetime—for many, these are the principal attractions of the bohemian, dynamic metropolis. At the[Read More…]
Film Wrap-Up
Looking back on this year in film, the Tribune’s Arts & Entertainment editors weigh in on the hits, misses, and the movies that slipped through the cracks. The Good Looper Telekinesis, time travel, mafia men—your average director would have combined these elements into something resembling a B-movie from the ’80s.[Read More…]
For McCord, holiday happiness is child’s play
Toys! Voyages! Bright colours! Elephants! You know it’s going to be an interesting exhibition when all of these appear on the promo poster, and even more so when you are see a walking blue miniature hippopotamus upon arrival. Toys 3: the Voyage is the McCord Museum’s new exhibition, artifact gallery,[Read More…]
A&E’s Top Five
Chris’ Top Five Albums of 2012 5. Grimes—Visions 4. Slow Magic—Triangle 3. TOPS—Tender Opposites 2. Beta Frontiers—…EP 1. Purity Ring—Shrines Ilia’s Top Five Songs of 2012 5. Lil Wayne—A Milli (BUSTED By HeRobust). Young Georgia-based beatmaker HeRobust puts a heavy spin on Wayne’s classic. 4. Styles Of Beyond—Damn (Feat. Michael Bublé). A[Read More…]
Ideas spark at interface of physics, biology
Humming away in the Rutherford Physics building, a long cold walk from Stewart Bio, is a computer that can predict one of the fundamental processes in biology: how vertebrae form. Paul François, associate professor in the department of physics, and associate member of the department of biology, is one researcher[Read More…]
Debate pits Science against Homeopathy
On Nov. 27, in a crowded Leacock 132 auditorium, McGill’s Office of Science and Society (OSS) hosted its second debate on naturopathy, titled “Homeopathy: Mere placebo or great medicine?” The debate pitted Dr. Joe Schwarcz, professor of chemistry and director of the OSS, against Dr. André Saine, a practicing naturopath[Read More…]
This Week in Research
Vitamin D and cancer Vitamin D is correlated with many health benefits, including lower cancer risk; but until now, the link has always been unclear. McGill researchers have uncovered a piece of the puzzle, explaining how the vitamin may help to prevent cancer. In a recent study published in[Read More…]