10 Tips to Making Sense of the Madness Each year, pundits, die-hards, and average fans struggle to fill out their NCAA March Madness brackets. The tournament of 68 is always unpredictable so here are 10 tips to help you get through the fun, but stressful process: 1. When deciding whether or[Read More…]
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Arts forum addresses TA concerns about budget cuts
Students, union members, and administrators came together to discuss the Quebec government’s announced budget cuts at a student-led Faculty of Arts forum last Thursday. Topics covered during the forum included teaching assistants’ (TA) concerns with regards to the budget cuts, and the removal of 101 arts courses for the 2013-2014[Read More…]
Industrial relations program to be redesigned, “modernized”
McGill’s industrial relations program, which was in danger of being terminated earlier this semester, will face re-structuring that will allow the program to continue to exist within the Faculty of Arts. The industrial relations program is an interdisciplinary program that allows students to study labour-management relations. The program includes courses[Read More…]
Exclusive interview with: Liberal leadership candidate Joyce Murray
Joyce Murray has been considered a “dark horse” in the Liberal Party of Canada leadership race since the start of the campaign period on Nov. 14, 2012. She recently received a celebrity boost as a result of endorsements from Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, and several advocacy groups, such as Avaaz and Leadnow.ca.
One week before the final leadership debate, the Tribune spoke to Murray, a former Cabinet minister in the B.C. government, about her vision of a sustainable society, electoral cooperation, and what young Canadians want from their political representatives today.
Concordia’s full-time faculty union ready to strike
In the midst of difficult and on-going negotiations with the administration, the Concordia University Faculty Association (CUFA)—the union that represents all full-time faculty members at Concordia, including professors and librarians—voted 74 per cent in favour of a strike mandate on Mar. 9. The mandate allows CUFA to go on strike[Read More…]
Walking tour brings attention to military research at McGill
On Mar. 14, a dozen McGill students and recent graduates gathered outside the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) Building to participate in the Military Research Walking Tour. The walking tour was organized by Demilitarize McGill, a student-run group aimed at ending military research at the university. Kevin Paul, a[Read More…]
Police presence pervades peaceful protest
Students and activists assembled under the rain in downtown Montreal to protest the tuition indexation announced by the Parti Québécois (PQ) at the two-day Summit on Higher Education held in late February. In comparison to the protests of thousands that occurred more immediately after the Summit—which ended in violence and[Read More…]
Highlights from the Mar. 14 SSMU Council
Revision of Tuition and Student Fees Certain charges to students’ fees are to be reviewed by the Students’ Society of McGill Unviersity (SSMU) and faculty members. A motion presented at the SSMU Winter General Assembly (GA) on Feb. 27 called upon SSMU to “conduct a thorough review of all tuition[Read More…]
What happened last week in Canada?
Hundreds arrested at Montreal anti-police brutality protest
Ford conflict-of-interest case to go to Supreme Court
Canada slips in UN human development rankings
Outrage over drones is misplaced
On Wednesday, Mar. 6, United States Senator Rand Paul conducted a 13-hour filibuster in response to the Attorney General’s refusal to provide a clear answer to the question of whether the President has “the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American[Read More…]
