Drea Garcia Avila, Creative Director: During my first year of university in November 2021, my friend off-handedly mentioned that The McGill Tribune was looking for illustrators. What started as a creative outlet led to me becoming a Staff Creative for two weeks, Design Editor for the next three semesters, and,[Read More…]
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Letter to the Editor: How SSMU President Dymetri Taylor Undermined a Historic Student Strike for Palestine
Following a callout for an international coordinated student strike for Palestine on Nov. 21, McGill students initiated a process that, if successful, would mandate a week-long strike of all Students Society of McGill University (SSMU) members, which encompasses all undergraduate students. This would have been an unprecedented mobilization of over[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: What’s Left Unsaid of Unionization at McGill—On Abuse of Power and the Impetus for Structural Reform
Last week, the Labour Tribunal ordered McGill to cease meddling in the activities of the Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL), the first faculty union at McGill. This decision, rendered amid a strike that resumed on Aug. 26, garnered national media attention, with many beyond the McGill community expressing[Read More…]
Farewell to The Tribune: Messages from our graduating editors
Suzanna Graham, Arts and Entertainment Editor: Three years ago, I felt disconnected from McGill, Montreal, and my fellow students. In the last week of my first year, a friend of a friend suggested I write for a school paper. The second week of second year, I ran from class to[Read More…]
Four years of Farnand: A letter from your (favourite) editor
Well, this is it. The last thing I will ever write for The Tribune. No pressure though, right? I joined the Sports section all the way back in 2019 after I wrote an opinion piece about littering that never got published (thanks a lot, Opinion). Now, four years and over[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Responding to The T on Campus
I’ve decided to go on holiday to the Opinion section this week. I would have preferred Barbados or Mexico, but alas, no flights. Normally I write restaurant reviews in the Student Life section, which is awfully fun. But this week, I’m reviewing your hot takes on campus. Let’s not overthink[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: The value of a ‘yes’ vote to the Athletics Facility Improvement Fee
On March 19, The McGill Tribune ran a commentary titled “Stand with Indigenous students and vote ‘No’ to the Athletics Facility Improvement Fee,” arguing that students should vote ‘no’ to the proposed Athletics Facility Improvement fee renewal scheduled to take place March 26-29. This response is a call to action—to understand[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: The wrong elephant in the room
Morality and politics are inextricably tied. In Plato’s Republic, the political arrangement of the city-state serves to elucidate justice and the Good, positioning politics as ontologically prior to morality—a relationship that also seems to hold in Marxist thought. In utilitarian thought—and much of contemporary conceptions of politics— morality comes first[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: The problem with SSMU’s GSVP funding gap
Content warning: sexual violence On Oct. 6, The McGill Tribune’s editorial board published an editorial titled “The Anti-Violence Fee Levy requires immediate support.” In the article, the Editorial Board advocated for students to support the Anti-Violence Fee Levy that went before the student body for referendum Nov. 9-12. I wish[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: There is no “quest for monolingual domination” in Québec
On Sept. 18, The McGill Tribune published an opinion piece titled “Quebec’s quest for monolingual domination makes healthcare less accessible.” In this article, the author made dubious and confusing links between Bill 10, font changes on information signs at Saint Mary’s hospital, and what he described as “Quebec’s quest for monolingual[Read More…]
