//Content warning: Medical abuse, racial and colonial violence// After decades of institutional negligence, a new class-action lawsuit presents McGill with the opportunity to formally address its role in the human torture experiments conducted through the CIA-funded MKUltra program. Given this opening for reparative action, McGill must reconcile its historic and[Read More…]
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McGill’s Refugee Parliament: A collaborative effort to amplify migrant voices
On Saturday, March 15, the Refugee Parliament, in partnership with the International Development Studies Student Association (IDSSA), The Refugee Centre, and the McGill Refugees Research Group, hosted the Refugee Parliament Conference. Created in Fall 2022 by Alessia Mottet, Maria Radu, Saadet Serra, and Shona Moreau as part of their SWRK[Read More…]
Flipping the lens: A look at the influencers of McGill University
The number of social media influencers has ballooned in recent years, with TikTok alone reporting over a million creators. But which McGillians are joining the trend? Who among the student body documents campus construction, fieldhouse exams, and library crash-outs? The Tribune interviewed three students who post their daily lives—and more—online,[Read More…]
The Tribune Explains: McGill’s carbon offsetting program
In 2020, McGill launched the Bayano-McGill Reforestation Project, a carbon offsetting program, alongside the university’s Vision 2020 Climate and Sustainability Action Plan, to help reach its carbon neutrality goals by 2040. The Tribune breaks down what the program is and how it ties into McGill’s long-term sustainability targets. What are[Read More…]
McGill governance meeting highlights: Week of Jan. 13-17
The McGill Senate, Post-Graduate Students’ Society (PGSS) Council, and Legislative Council of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) each held their first meetings of the semester during the week of Jan. 13-17. Senators explored the potential impacts of Bill 74 and Bill 83, and concerns regarding McGill’s new policy[Read More…]
School of Continuing Studies becomes McGill’s fourth faculty union
In a less than 60-day process, on Dec. 31, Quebec’s Tribunal Administratif du Travail certified the Association of McGill Academic Staff of the School of Continuing Studies (AMASCS), forging the fourth faculty union at McGill. The School of Continuing Studies (SCS) marks the first faculty to bid for unionization following[Read More…]
McGill does not contest the latest faculty union certification: A shift or merely an exception?
On Dec. 31, the Tribunal administratif du travail certified the Association of McGill Academic Staff of the School of Continuing Studies (AMASCS) as McGill’s fourth faculty union. AMASCS is the first instance of faculty unionization that McGill did not contest in court—a pivotal moment for the unions, who have faced[Read More…]
16th annual McGill Global Health Night: Advancing global health equity
What does it take to achieve health equity in a world marked by systemic inequities and global crises? The McGill Department of Global and Public Health held its 16th annual McGill Global Health Night on Nov. 21 to help explore this question. Students, professors, and global health workers presented their[Read More…]
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese joins McGill community for a talk on Palestine
Keffiyehs adorned the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) ballroom on Nov. 4 as over 200 students, professors, and community members gathered for a presentation from Francesca Albanese, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. During the talk, Albanese discussed her Oct. 1 report on human[Read More…]
McGill and other Quebec universities call for exemption from potential cap on international students
On Nov. 5, McGill President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini, accompanied by the heads of other major Quebec universities and CEGEPs, spoke at a public consultation at the National Assembly of Quebec regarding the province’s proposed Bill 74. If passed, the bill would allow the provincial government to put a cap[Read More…]