From Jan. 29 to March 8, 2026, a new exhibition at Montreal’s Sanaaq centre revisited the story of Gloria Baylis, a Black nurse who, in 1965, became the first person in Canada to successfully challenge racial discrimination in employment under the law. Baylis was denied a nursing position at the[Read More…]
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Critics must balance linguistic priorities with human impact when discussing Air Canada’s faux pas
On March 22, an Air Canada plane departing from Montreal collided with a Port Authority firetruck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The crash, which tragically killed pilots Captain Antoine Forest and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther, elicited an outpouring of grief. Shortly after the event, Air Canada CEO Michael[Read More…]
Campus Conversations: Memory
Are these the good old days? Julie Raout, Staff Writer “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.” The Office’s Andy Bernard nudges us with a gentle reminder that happiness often goes unnoticed until it has slipped away. Haven’t[Read More…]
The pattern behind Hassan’s denial of entry
Rima Hassan, a French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament (MEP), was denied entry into Canada days before she was scheduled to attend conferences in Montreal on the suppression of Palestinian advocacy and the rise of the far right. Canada’s Office of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship (IRCC) did not provide a specific[Read More…]
Forgetting sexual assault survivors implicitly forgives their aggressors
In March 2026, former teacher and Bloc Québécois (Bloc) member of Parliament Pascal-Pierre Paillé was arrested and charged with sexual offences involving two minors, the allegations dating back to 2006 and as recently as August 2024. Paillé, who represented the riding of Louis-Hébert for the Bloc from 2008 to 2011,[Read More…]
Bill 28 entrenches the devaluation of feminized labour
Trigger warning: mentions of violence In 2018, a nurse in Beauce had a miscarriage after a patient kicked her in the stomach. In 2020, a nurse in Montérégie-Est was strangled for several minutes. In 2023, a high‑school teacher in Laval was assaulted with scissors by a student in her classroom.[Read More…]
McGill shields Israeli institutions at the expense of its students
The McGill administration’s recent effort to obstruct the Law Students’ Association’s (LSA) referendum epitomizes its blatant disrespect for student expression and democracy. From March 19–21, students in the Faculty of Law voted in favour of a referendum endorsing the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). The referendum, introduced by[Read More…]
Great pitch, terrible news
In The Tribune‘s Slack, ‘that’s great!’ doesn’t usually mean there’s good news. Coming up with pitches for our paper requires a particular analytic perspective. Examining politics, social life, and culture through the lens of journalism can instill a habit of reading the news in search of something controversial; something sensationalizable.[Read More…]
We can’t all be superheroes
One year ago, I wrote an article titled ‘Disruption is the essence of effective protest,’ arguing that radical activism is more effective than catering to the politically neutral, and that fence-sitters aren’t worth engaging with. But after another year spent watching and reporting on student activism, I can see that[Read More…]
The art of figuring it out
In the summer of 1969, a group of musicians walked on stage at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland with nothing short of a half-formed idea. In a last-minute effort, pianist Les McCann, bassist Leroy Vinnegar, and drummer Donald Dean recruited trumpeter Benny Bailey and saxophonist Eddie Harris to perform[Read More…]