U.S.-Canada relations conference draws prominent politicians

Alice Walker Alice Walker Last week, the Omni Hotel on Sherbrooke hosted the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada’s annual conference, this year titled, “Canada and the United States: Conversations and Relations.” The conference brought together high-ranking decision-makers from the U.S. and Canada to engage in conversation with the[Read More…]

EMSB considers overhaul options

On Wednesday, the English Montreal School Board Council of Commissioners held an information session regarding possible changes to Montreal schools. Michael Cohen, a spokesman for the EMSB, said in an email to the Tribune that the main goal of these proposed changes is “consolidation of enrolment.” Among the specific changes[Read More…]

Munroe-Blum talks tuition hikes, McKinsey controversy

Holly Stewart Principal Heather Munroe-Blum sat down with reporters from the McGill Daily, Le Délit, and the Tribune earlier this month to answer questions about the upcoming tuition hikes, the ratio of graduate students to undergraduates, and McGill’s Strategic Reframing Initiative. In response to questions about provincial tuition increases, which[Read More…]

Queen’s Rector Day under fire

Students at Queen’s University are deciding whether or not their rector, Nick Day, should be impeached, after he wrote a public letter, signed with his position, to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff praising the controversial campus event Israeli Apartheid Week.    On March 7, Ignatieff issued a statement condemning Israeli Apartheid[Read More…]

An apology

McGill Tribune My name is Haaris Khan. I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a terrorist. I am not a threat to my fellow students on campus. I can be an idiot sometimes, though. I’ve learned that using my voice in a public forum comes with great responsibility. Politics[Read More…]

Student investigated for hateful tweets

The McGill administration is currently investigating Haaris Khan, a McGill student who, using Twitter, threatened to shoot a roomful of other students last week at a campus film screening. Khan made the threats at a screening of “Indoctrinate U,” a documentary, on March 8 hosted by Conservative McGill and Libertarian[Read More…]

Lauren Hudak – VP University Affairs

What do you think would be the most important issues facing the VP UA next year? One of them will be tuition for sure, it has been shown that tuition increases seem to be inevitable for this upcoming year, however as VP UA I will definitely take a very hard[Read More…]

Emily Clare – VP University Affairs

With regards to the administration people have adversarial relationships towards it or cooperative relations, where do you think your approach falls?  I think we have to be ourselves as student representatives but also a resource to the university to get information into what students want. So it’s important to work[Read More…]

Shyam Patel – VP Finance & Operations

What experience do you bring to this position? I feel that being funding coordinator is a privilege, because not only do I have administrative experience in the sense that I know the whole staff, and I know how the system inside the office works. I’ve also gone to many Council[Read More…]

Kady Paterson – VP Internal

The VP internal gets criticized a lot for just being a party planner, would you agree with that assessment or do you see a bigger role and if so what else? Well, I definitely agree with the criticism of it being too often a party planner, because I think that[Read More…]

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