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Thinking of an animal house?

We’ve all been there, standing in front of the pet store, staring at those tiny balls of fur we call kittens, watching them roll about, or at the SPCA staring into the eyes of a puppy that’s begging you to take him home. But, as a student who’s low on[Read More…]

QPIRG and CKUT can cash in on the occupation

  This past Sunday McGill finally appeared to have run out of patience with the James Administration building “partiers” and had police escort them out. Unsurprisingly, the occupation ended without McGill meeting the group’s demands. However, the occupiers were certainly successful in sparking conversation on campus. While much of the[Read More…]

Genocide prevention panel seeks to learn from the past

Simon Poitrimolt   Last Wednesday, a panel discussion on the topic of genocide prevention, with a focus on mobilising international intervention, took place at McGill in Chancellor Day Hall. The event was hosted by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum, McGill’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP), and the[Read More…]

McGill announces internal investigation on asbestos

  In a letter sent to McGill University on Feb. 10, a group of 32 individuals called on McGill University to perform an independent and transparent investigation into the influence of the Quebec asbestos industry over Professor J. Corbett McDonald’s epidemiological research on the health effects of chrysotile asbestos. This[Read More…]

Van Halen: A Different Kind of Truth

  Supposedly created from Eddie Van Halen’s scrapped guitar riffs and discarded studio tapes, Van Halen’s A Different Kind of Truth marks the band’s first record in 14 years, and the first to feature original lead singer David Lee Roth in almost 30.  The album faithfully reconstructs the band’s early[Read More…]

CLASSE Referendum

  Last Monday, Feb. 13 marked the end of the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) Winter Special Referendum. The referendum posed a question amending the AUS constitution to make the General Assembly the supreme governing body of the AUS instead of Council. The change in the governing structure of the AUS[Read More…]

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