McGill Tribune After eight months of negotiations, the McGill administration has ceded to the core demands of AGSEM, the union representing McGill University’s teaching assistants. The result is a new three-year contract for TAs that includes an annual salary raise of 1.2 per cent, an added pay rise of three[Read More…]

I’ve always thought the generic soft-pop music played in department stores and supermarkets works fairly well to calm shoppers.  It lulls you into a peaceful state, and is never catchy enough to excite you.  But on Black Friday, in America, it’s useless.  Stores might as well blast Metallica or angsty-screamo-punk[Read More…]

McGill Tribune “Happy Holidays!” Well, “bah, humbug” to you, too. Yes, that’s right: the politically correct platitude, “Happy Holidays” rides in the same sleigh as cranky old Ebenezer Scrooge. And just like Dickens’s notorious misanthrope, “Happy Holidays” stifles the unbridled kindness that the season brings, turning the once popular phrase,[Read More…]

These past few years have been a time of tumult for most journalistic organizations. Various forms of modern media, such as the Internet and cable television, they have challenged the dominance of print and network television, and have also challenged the orthodoxy of whether “the news” should express an opinion.[Read More…]

I started writing Pinata Diplomacy three and a half years ago in the McGill Daily. I had included in my columnist application a few clips from high school, where I used my position as opinion editor of the student paper to complain about the many hypocrisies of my suburban New[Read More…]

Holidays are a great time of year to practice your fake smile and insincere thank-you note writing skills. They’re also a great time to buy useless junk for people you don’t really know all that well and to receive a bunch of useless junk from other people you don’t really[Read More…]