McGill Counselling Services is currently experiencing an unprecedented wait period of five to six weeks for appointments. While all students can be seen during intake–the first visit–follow-up appointments are being delayed by over a month.  “We can’t take a lot of second or follow-up appointments for about six weeks now[Read More…]

Miranda Whist On March 25, the Conservative government of Canada fell after a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons. Students in campus political clubs are getting as actively involved as they can, even with exams only a week away. Charmaine Borg and Matthew Dube, co-presidents of NDP[Read More…]

Last Wednesday, renowned Mexican author Carlos Fuentes delivered a lecture at the McGill Faculty of Law. His talk covered a broad range of topics in an equally broad range of languages, employing English, French, and Spanish. Fuentes’s talk was titled “Literature and Law,” but it ranged over numerous subjects, including[Read More…]

How would you evaluate your year as the SSMU president? With every year, there are certainly ups and downs. I think that the great things we were able to achieve far surpassed the others which individuals might consider to be not so successful. This year featured the very first student-run[Read More…]

McGill has plenty of famous alumni, from prime ministers to Grammy winners, but who is the greatest of them all?  With McGill”s 190th anniversary approaching, the Alumni Association has decided to seek the answer to this question. The Alumni Association began its search for the greatest McGillian by creating an[Read More…]

ARCH Café: This fall, students returned to McGill to find that the beloved Architecture Café wouldn’t be reopening for the school year. In early September, Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Morton Mendelson claimed that the café had been losing money for the last several years but refused to cite[Read More…]

President Zach Newburgh started the year strong, acting as the ever-present public face of the movement to re-open the Architecture Café. Shouting through a megaphone outside of Leacock prior to the September McGill Senate meeting, Newburgh presided over one of the most significant and coordinated displays of student engagement and[Read More…]

Though Vice-President Clubs and Services Anushay Khan was elected last year without facing an opponent, the Tribune was confident at the time that she would perform well in the position. Like her predecessor, Sarah Olle, Khan had a year of experience as the Students’ Society’s interest group coordinator and we[Read More…]

Vice-President Internal Tom Fabian’s accomplishments are worth recognizing. First, Fabian managed to reconcile the interests of the administration and those of students to successfully lay the groundwork for a revamped Orientation Week. He also successfully organized the Students’ Society’s first Homekoming and revived Faculty Olympics. Although attendance at both events[Read More…]