Across Canada, Indigenous communities are grappling with a severe environmental crisis. Approximately 4,500 sites on reserve lands are listed as contaminated in the Canadian Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory, representing 29 per cent of all such sites nationwide. This disproportionate concentration of contaminated sites has resulted in significantly higher exposure to[Read More…]
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Neurostructural correlates of obesity: Evidence for brain-body interactions
A recent study led by Filip Morys, a Research Associate at The Neuro in Montreal under the supervision of Dr. Alain Dagher, explores the bidirectional relationship between obesity and brain function. The findings reveal that weight gain can be both a cause and a consequence of changes in the brain.[Read More…]
McGill condemns everything but genocide
After an academic year marked by Israel’s intensified genocide in Gaza and heightened campus dissent, McGill has not only failed in its responsibility to preserve student safety and educational democracy: It has intensified hostilities by vilifying the Palestinian liberation movement. On March 27, a strike motion submitted by two McGill[Read More…]
The final edit
As you rifle through The Tribune’s final issue, I implore you to consider a heavy, urgent, and tender word: Responsibility. For the past academic year, student revolutionaries took on the responsibility to spearhead movements for Indigenous sovereignty and Palestinian liberation, fought against increasing conservatism and fascism across North America, and[Read More…]
McGill announces intent to end contractual agreement with SSMU, taking parties to mediation
On the afternoon of April 7, the McGill community received an email on behalf of Interim Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Angela Campbell with the subject line “Termination of the SSMU-McGill Memorandum of Agreement.” The email—which condemned the Students’ Society of McGill University’s (SSMU) student strike the week before—outlined[Read More…]
Celebrating Sikh Heritage Month at McGill
April is officially recognized as Sikh Heritage Month in Canada. It is a time to reflect, acknowledge, and celebrate Sikh history, values, and contributions to Canadian society. The McGill Sikh Students’ Association (MSSA) supports students through cultural, academic, social, and spiritual events. They welcome both Sikh and non-Sikh students, with[Read More…]
Sports media’s duty to athletes and fans
Sports journalism is often seen as a “soft” area of the media, but it is a lot more complicated than it appears. In covering sports events and athletes, journalists must uphold key journalistic practices, ensuring they truthfully and fairly represent the stories they are telling. Oftentimes, however, journalists and media[Read More…]
SSMU LC repasses Policy Against Antisemitism in final moments of year’s last session
The Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU)’s Legislative Council (LC) aimed to resolve unfinished business at its last meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year on April 3. The session saw the LC’s re-approval of the Policy Against Antisemitism, which faced legal opposition after it first passed in December 2024. The[Read More…]
Seven out of nine candidates withdrawn from PGSS election
The Post-Graduate Students’ Society’s (PGSS) Chief Returning Officer (CRO) Ali Ekber Cinar announced the withdrawal of seven out of nine of the election candidates for the upcoming PGSS executive election. The election, scheduled from March 24 to April 7, has still run with only two uncontested candidates on the ballot—Ansley[Read More…]
Patient perspectives on services provided by a deradicalization clinic
As social polarization increases around the globe, attitudes that justify the use of violence grow alongside it. Deradicalizing both potential and convicted offenders of violent extremism—violence motivated by ideological, political, or religious agendas—thereby continues to be important for preventing the perpetuation of hate. In a recent study, Cécile Rousseau, professor[Read More…]
