In case you hadn’t noticed, it was incredibly cold last week. With temperatures reaching an average of minus 27 degrees Celsius with windchill, this weather seems to mean repayment for the warm beginning to January lulled us into a false sense of security. At temperatures that seem to freeze your[Read More…]
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Weathering the windchill entails more than extra mittens
Montreal’s recent cold snap saw students bundling tighter than the kid from “A Christmas Story,” and crowding campus hotspots like the Redpath basement well past capacity. Hopefully we’re out of the woods now, but just in case temperatures plummet again before this winter’s through, the Tribune has compiled some tips[Read More…]
Highlights from the Jan. 24 SSMU Council
Motion Regarding Support for Indigenous Peoples and Allies Heated debate occurred between councillors over a motion calling for SSMU to “adopt a position in support of the Idle No More movement, and in support of the struggles of the Society’s First Nation and Inuit members and allies.” Senate Caucus Representative[Read More…]
Newly opened Indian restaurant does it right
There are few places in Montreal that will satisfy your cravings for wholesome Indian food, and fewer still that are competitively priced, and right in your own backyard. Namaste Montreal – a new Indian restaurant on Milton – meets all three of these requirements. Healthy recipes: All of Namaste’s[Read More…]
Student of the Week
This week’s student was nominated for his tireless efforts to provide the city of Montreal with free Wi-Fi Q: If you could change one thing about Montreal, what would it be and why? A: [I would want to] make it friendlier for bikes, and make it easier in the winter.[Read More…]
Communication critical step in combating tropical disease
For Greg Matlashewski, a McGill professor and former chair of the department of microbiology and immunology, branching out from the lab and into the field had many positive results for his work regarding treatment for visceral leishmaniasis. Visceral leishmaniasis, transmitted by sandfly bites, is one of many neglected tropical infectious[Read More…]
Fear of vaccination breathes new life into virus
Poliovirus has been eliminated in most of the developing world. Its eradication has been primarily due to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a multilateral proposal passed by the World Health Assembly in 1988. However, three countries—Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan—stand between the GPEI and its goal of making polio the[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor
Much has been written about the faculty of arts proposal to enhance the connection between research and undergraduate teaching by increasing the proportion of courses taught by professors who devote their careers to advancing their disciplines, as well as increasing the availability of teaching-assistant support to professors and students. These[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor
Universities are not easy to run. Administrators are constantly under pressure to make ends meet. To balance the budget sheet they must pay thousands of salaries, manage millions of dollars in infrastructure, fundraise, lobby and beg to pay for it all. In an age of austerity, this is unimaginably harder.[Read More…]
Cuts and an inconsequential conversation
At the beginning of last term, I wrote that this year would—hopefully—be free of the sort of acrimonious student politics that characterized 2011-2012 at McGill. Recent events have put the lie to that hope. While much of the attention on campus is currently centred around The Daily’s fee referendum, a[Read More…]
