The reopening Scores of excited visitors crowded the entrance to McGill’s Redpath Museum on Jan. 10 for its long-awaited reopening. Since March 2020, Redpath Museum, overlooking lower field, has been closed in accordance with Quebec’s and McGill’s COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. Ginette Dessureault, the museum’s administrative assistant, explained that[Read More…]
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The transforming landscape of linguistic diversity
The Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) houses linguists from McGill and the wider Montreal community who focus their research on languages that are considered to be at risk of extinction because so few people speak them. For example, MULL has ongoing research on Inuktitut and Tlingit, two Indigenous languages[Read More…]
Cautious optimism for McGill unions as year closes on historic faculty unionization
McGill stood for 200 years without a faculty-specific union until Nov. 8, when the Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL) was certified by the Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT) after a year-long litigation process. As another collective agreement (CA) negotiation is added to the overwhelmed McGill Human Resources (HR)[Read More…]
Rolling the dice on academic freedom
McGill University bears the name of its founder James McGill, but this honorific was a condition tied to James’s large donations that were used to establish the institution. His gift, however, cannot be isolated from the colonial violence which produced it. He was only able to formalize the higher education[Read More…]
McGill’s volunteer-based note-sharing service falls short according to users and volunteers
Three years ago, Student Accessibility and Achievement (SAA) transformed the note-taking role from a paid to a voluntary position. Note-takers are students who provide their notes to other students registered with the SAA. Since the change, many students registered for the SAA’s note-taking accommodation and note-takers themselves have been disappointed[Read More…]
The resistance politics of art, through an honest lens
In my first year at McGill, I took ENGL 279, an intro to Film History course. We started with what is widely recognized as the first film in history, Man Riding Jumping Horse, explored slapstick comedies by Buster Keaton, and traversed the advent of sound in motion pictures until arriving[Read More…]
Quinni of ’Heartbreak High’: Finally, a successful example of autism representation
On Sept. 14, Netflix released Heartbreak High, a remake of the 1994 Australian coming-of-age TV show of the same name. Critics praised the series for its realistic portrayal of high school and the diversity of experiences the show depicts. The series remained in Netflix’s Top 10 list in 43 countries[Read More…]
AMUSE elects new slate of executives following two months of leadership vacancy
The Association of McGill University Support Employees (AMUSE) welcomed eight new members to its Board of Representatives (BoR) and five new officers to its Executive Committee at a Special General Meeting (SGM) held on Nov. 2. The SGM was convened to fill the seats left vacant after a contentious ruling[Read More…]
Another day, another vampire slay
Imagine if a teenaged Wattpad author wrote the classic 1897 novel Dracula. Now, imagine that this sexy retelling is actually funny. This is the concept behind the Segal Centre’s newest play, Dracula: a Comedy of Terrors. Co-written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen, the play features five brilliant actors who[Read More…]
Say no to the colonial status quo
Content warning: Colonial violence The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a federal statutory holiday honouring those impacted by Canada’s residential school system, was held on Sept. 30. Despite the significance of this day, McGill did not give students the day off school, unlike many universities across Canada. Meanwhile, McGill[Read More…]
