McGill Tribune On Sept. 24 the National Post ran an ad by the Institute for Canadian Values which opposed the inclusion of transsexual, transgender, intersexed, and Two-spirited issues in the Ontario school curriculum taught to children between junior kindergarten and Grade 3. The ad consisted of a photo[Read More…]
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Letter to the Editor
On Sept. 14, the Tribune ran the article, well.” For clarification and transparency, SSMU Equity would like to add some commentary: Neither SSMU’s Equity Officers nor the Student Equity Committee has found the event description of Coyote Ugly 2.0 to be at odds with the Equity Policy, nor was there[Read More…]
Hartman’s intent admirable, but misdirected
Professor Michelle Hartman, a member of the McGill Faculty Labour Action Group (MFLAG) has recently come under fire for holding a seminar off campus in the Plateau. The Islamic Studies professor supports the MUNACA strike, and wanted to avoid crossing the picket line—a symbolic gesture of solidarity—by teaching her classes[Read More…]
How to humiliate yourself in forty minutes or less
hahastop.com Last Friday, at approximately 9 p.m., I endured the most humiliating forty minutes of my life: I played intramural soccer. As it turns out, I have all of the coordination of a drunk gorilla, and all of the soccer competitiveness of an MLS team. Co-Rec-C is too advanced for[Read More…]
MUNACA strike, week two
Sam Reynolds The MUNACA strike has entered its second week with newly restarted negotiations remaining at a standstill, despite Quebec’s appointment of a conciliator. Meanwhile, SSMU has steadily supported MUNACA. On Friday afternoon, McGill announced that a conciliator was appointed to bring the McGill’s administration and the striking workers together.[Read More…]
Engineering reports should flood the public
McGill Tribune Students leaving class for OAP last Thursday saw Montreal’s version of Niagra Falls when a burst water main on Docteur Penfield sent torrents of water down McTavish and into downtown Montreal (News: “McTavish Under Water,” p. 3). While many students enjoyed frolicking in Le Fleuve McTavish, the flood[Read More…]
September 11 is not a political tool
McGill Tribune The Harper government’s decision to reintroduce two controversial clauses of the Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-36) in the House of Commons this past week is no small coincidence. At a time when the 2001 attacks on the United States are on everyone’s mind, and every media source features news[Read More…]
A letter from MUNACA
McGill Tribune To fellow members of the McGill commnity, We are McGill employees, each of us working in a different capacity at the university. Between us we have given almost 100 years of service to McGill. We work hard and we take pride in the work that we do. Like[Read More…]
Resolution in the best interest of students
McGill Tribune Some may say that a university is only as strong as its professors and researchers, but there’s an argument that the backbone of any school is made up of a less celebrated group: the administrative, technical, and logistical staff who run the libraries, the tech programs, the labs;[Read More…]
An accidental editor
I was really lame when I was a first year. In fact, I’m still a square compared to the Froshies who were outside my building late last night. I had a difficult time finding extracurriculars when I arrived three years ago. Bar hopping in first year on St. Laurent was[Read More…]
