At 12:58 p.m. local time last Tuesday, the Large Hadron Collider, a mammoth particle accelerator buried 100 metres beneath Geneva, Switzerland, finally began smashing subatomic particles together at record-high speeds. Though the LHC’s first successful particle collisions occurred in November, on Tuesday physicists at the accelerator recorded the first collisions at the energy level – about seven trillion electron volts (TeV) – at which the collider will operate for about the next year and a half.
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CAMPUS: Web site offers alternative to traditional text
Going back to school may be becoming less painful on your wallet with the introduction of free online books. Freeload Press Company is offering online versions of textbooks, workbooks and study guides in the popular PDF format at no cost. The catch? The pages also contain advertisements, making textbooks appear more like magazines and causing controversy within the academic world.
EDITORIAL: Quebec should leave religious paranoia to the French
There are many areas in which France is worth emulating. The French have impressive universal health care, a generous day care system, and they enjoy a high standard of living. But unfortunately, the Parti Québécois and certain elements of Quebec society seem hell-bent on copying one of the worst aspects of French culture: religious paranoia.
The five stages of back-to-school grief: How to be cheap while you grieve
Everybody knows the five stages of grief, but McGill students know of a sixth—perhaps a seventh. The sixth is coming back to school in August, a week before your friends at other schools; the seventh is coming back with more money on your oneCard than in your bank account. Even[Read More…]
‘Kanga I, II, III’ brings Projections: SANKOFA’s afrofuturist vision to Trottier
Tanzanian-American-Canadian artist Shanna Strauss’s screenprint triad Kanga I, II, III joined the student-led digital art exhibition Projections: SANKOFA on Feb. 23. Displayed in the Lorne M. Trottier Building mezzanine, the Kanga series combines negative space with vibrant colour to assert the unifying power of shared cultural identity. Projections: SANKOFA is[Read More…]
Know Your Artist: Theodore A. Harris
American artist and poet Theodore A. Harris is a genius of the political collage. Born in Manhattan, New York and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Harris brings an autobiographical focus to the subversive, polysemous medium of the collage, one shaped by his upbringing, mentors, and personal experiences with anti-Black discrimination and[Read More…]
Referendum to boycott Israeli institutions passes with the highest voting turnout in recent LSA history
On March 19, voting for the Referendum Regarding the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel to Preserve Academic Freedom (PACBI) opened to all members of the Law Students’ Association (LSA). The motion, put forward by Law Students for Palestine at McGill (LS4PM) and McGill Radical Law Students’ Association (RadLaw), called[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…]
Summer courses: Bask in the sun while living and learning in Montreal
With just over a month left of the Winter semester and warm weather (hopefully) on the way, many McGill students are getting ready to bid adieu to Montreal and head home for the summer. However, for those who are unsure of their summer plans, or want to stay in Montreal[Read More…]
Quebec immigration reform has left bright minds behind
Monica Colín Silva and her family moved to Quebec City from Mexico four years ago, during which she obtained a Master’s degree at Université Laval. After completing the program and becoming fluent in French, she felt hopeful for her path to permanent residency in Quebec. In late 2024, the federal[Read More…]