secretcityrecords.com Montreal has become recognized for producing some of the best musicians of the past decade, and Plants and Animals is certainly no exception. The band’s first full-length album, Parc Avenue, was shortlisted for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize and nominated for two Junos in 2009. Not bad, right? It’s[Read More…]

filmbuffonline.com There are some films which one enters with such low expectations that, by the grace of Providence, the movie manages to just barely surpass them. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is one such case. Like a resuscitated drowning victim, the few elements of the film that worked coughed and[Read More…]

Dove Shore Electronic music has always maintained a modest yet comfortable position in mainstream music’s landscape, but the recent explosion of electronic’s various subgenres—particularly house, dubstep, and breakbeat—has turned what was once a novelty into music that is now viewed, alongside pop, as pure social necessity. To what (or whom)[Read More…]

Written in an extraordinarily accessible and infectiously optimistic style, The Grandest Challenge: Taking Lifesaving Science from Lab to Village argues for the advancement of biotechnology, specifically genetic engineering, in order to solve the plethora of health issues that plague the developing world.  Echoing the sentiments of recent years, Dr. Peter[Read More…]

phylo.cs.mcgill.ca Completing a multiple sequence alignment—a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity—is an age-old problem in genetics. To tackle this task, two bioinformaticians at the McGill Centre of Informatics have employed a somewhat unconventional method. They decided to make an online[Read More…]

echoer.com Have you ever wondered what others around you in public spaces are thinking? Ever wanted to let fellow mall-goers know just how terrible you found a meal at the food court? A Montreal-based startup has just launched an innovative new mobile application which hopes to forever change the face[Read More…]

Simon Poitrimolt   A talk by Dr. Tom Palmer on tyranny and oppression in North Korea on Feb. 7 was met with mixed reactions. Hosted by Libertarian McGill and the Institute for Liberal Studies, the speech focused on the nature and principles of freedom. Palmer, a senior fellow at Washington’s[Read More…]

  Last Monday, Feb. 13 marked the end of the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) Winter Special Referendum. The referendum posed a question amending the AUS constitution to make the General Assembly the supreme governing body of the AUS instead of Council. The change in the governing structure of the AUS[Read More…]

Simon Poitrimolt   Last Wednesday, a panel discussion on the topic of genocide prevention, with a focus on mobilising international intervention, took place at McGill in Chancellor Day Hall. The event was hosted by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum, McGill’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP), and the[Read More…]