Opinion

Opinions from our editorial board and contributors.

Crime TV too real for me

To all of those TV junkies who have recently taken up a nightly routine of watching prime-time crime shows such as Criminal Minds, CSI, and CSI Miami (also known as the better CSI), I come to you with a grave, grave warning: too much exposure to police procedural dramas is[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…]

My CSIS and desist

 My dad keeps emailing me a link to apply to be an Intelligence Officer in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Since moving 4,000 kilometres away from my home town and leaving frequent face-time with him behind, what was once a playful career pitch over martinis has now become a quasi-regular[Read More…]

9/11 – A memoir

Two Sundays ago marked the 10th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11. I don’t have anything to say that hasn’t already been said. All I can offer is my personal experience. My fifth grade class was in the middle of story time when we heard the terrible bang that[Read More…]

The free tuition fantasy

What a way to start the year. The first sight that greeted many returning students was that of striking MUNACA workers picketing outside the major entrances to campus. The general strike means that many students are facing reduced services across the university. While the strike will hopefully have only temporary[Read More…]

Letter from the Editor

Dear Readers, The ongoing McGill University Non-Academic (MUNACA) workers’ strike has imposed logistical concerns which impact the Tribune’s production process. While the strike continues, the Tribune will publish on Wednesdays. We will return to our standard Tuesday publishing schedule as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvience this has[Read More…]

Quebec right to drop $2 million fine

McGill Tribune The tuition beast has once again reared its ugly head, in both our Minerva statements and campus politics, as the Ministry of Education recently rescinded a $2 million fine it had slapped on McGill for a tuition hike. McGill’s MBA program tuiton was  increased to $32,000 for all[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…]

College Mindset

Every year Beloit College releases a new College Mindset List.  Compiled by a professor and administrator, the 75-item list is a summary of sociocultural entities which the incoming freshman class may take for granted because of their age.  The umbrella of topics is broad; some are banal, some insightful, and[Read More…]

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