Anti-Black racism at McGill is institutionalized, and the work of Black student activists is vital in demanding systemic changes on campus. A summer of Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the continued police brutality and murders of Black people have brought increased visibility to Black activism around the globe, including[Read More…]
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Artist Spotlight: James Dunnigan
As a poet, novelist, and aspiring academic, McGill student James Dunnigan lives his life in a cloud of creative energy. While finishing a degree in Honours English (with a graduate essay on Virgil and Wordsworth’s pastoral poetry) Dunnigan reads and writes constantly while keeping up with Montreal’s thriving literary scene. [Read More…]
Heartfelt, Funny, and Politically Incorrect: James Davis is everything stand-up should be
Nestled atop a bar on Rue Bishop, Comedy Works is a small and intimate venue reminiscent of old-timey comedy clubs, complete with dim lighting and an exposed brick wall. On Saturday night, the usually low-key club was abuzz, as stand-up veteran and cast member of Kevin Hart’s TV Show Real[Read More…]
Demilitarize McGill protesters blockade James Administraton Building
Individuals associated with Demilitarize McGill, a group seeking to end military research at McGill, blockaded all entrances into the James Administration building on March 24. The blockade began at 7:30 a.m. and lasted nearly three hours, preventing students and employees from entering the building. The demonstrators, who remained masked for[Read More…]
MUNACA rallies in front of James Admin Building
Carolina Millán Ronchetti / McGill Tribune On March 9, approximately 250 members of the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association (MUNACA) demonstrated in front of the James Administration Building to protest about a delay in finalizing and signing a collective agreement with the McGill administration. The agreement, ratified by MUNACA’s members[Read More…]
What we liked this summer break
The Lunchbox: A Musical – Dylan Hing, Staff Writer Over the summer, I caught the world-premiere musical adaptation of The Lunchbox at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. Based on the 2013 film of the same name, the musical centres on Mumbai’s famously precise dabbawala food delivery system; in a[Read More…]
A conversation with Ehab Lotayef: A lifelong voyage to the conscience of humanity
On May 14, 429 activists carrying more than 11,000 kilograms of humanitarian aid set sail to Gaza from Marmaris, Türkiye, to protest against Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Two Palestinian solidarity activist coalitions—the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC)—organized this[Read More…]
SPHR remembers Gaza Solidarity Encampment ahead of Nakba Anniversary Protest
On May 9, Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance (SPHR) at McGill hosted a gathering to commemorate the two-year anniversary of Montreal community members establishing the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on McGill’s Lower Field. 743 days later, community members of all ages met for a potluck, arts-and-crafts, and a letter-writing campaign[Read More…]
Sad endings do not ruin a great story: Haliburton, Vanmoen, and Carlyle
Sad endings are unfortunately part of life, but they do not have to ruin our greatest stories. The most popular romance movie on Letterboxd is La La Land, a movie with a horribly unsatisfying ending to an otherwise lovely story. That summary is one so often befitting in sports. Not[Read More…]
60 years after Gloria Baylis’ landmark case, Canadian legal systems still fail to redress systemic racism
From Jan. 29 to March 8, 2026, a new exhibition at Montreal’s Sanaaq centre revisited the story of Gloria Baylis, a Black nurse who, in 1965, became the first person in Canada to successfully challenge racial discrimination in employment under the law. Baylis was denied a nursing position at the[Read More…]