Karla Stasiak For the single and broken-hearted, the days prior to Valentine’s Day are filled with annoyance, bitterness, and a dash of jealousy. While single students rebuff all things red and heart-shaped, making plans to burn their ex-lovers’ things, the couples of the world smile, frolic, and get to[Read More…]
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Academy Awards 2012
Best Actor Who will win: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Before the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards, this category looked like a fight between Dujardin and George Clooney (The Descendants). Once the SAG went to the effervescent Frenchmen, the race appeared to be closing in on an early end. Neither[Read More…]
Woody Harrelson rampages in Rampart
collider.com In his second directorial feature, Oren Moverman firmly eschews the rules of hard-boiled cop cinema. Instead, he offers a surprisingly human story of a man born 30 years too late—Rampart is what Dirty Harry may have been if Eastwood’s Harry Callahan, .44 Magnum, and trademark of the “Do[Read More…]
Dragons, magic, and totalitarianism
readingrevels.com Inheritance is about dragons, their riders, an elf princess, and an evil, all-powerful king. But at its core, the last novel in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle is a coming-of-age novel. Throughout his adventures, the main character, Eragon, undergoes drastic change, which coincides with the growth and improvement of[Read More…]
McGill administration recognizes CKUT’s existence
Last Wednesday, the administration announced that it recognizes, in principle, the existence of CKUT Radio. The administration had previously rejected the results of the fall referendum, in which CKUT and QPIRG each posed a question calling students to support the organizations’ existence and a move to make opt-outs[Read More…]
Rooting for the grassroots
It was the week before Christmas in 2009, and an air of disappointment hung over environmentalists around the world. The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen had just ended in failure, only weeks after world leaders strode confidently into the downtown Bella Center, brimming with hope for the future[Read More…]
Efficacy of saliva test could forever change HIV testing
According to a recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, saliva-based HIV test results may be only two per cent less accurate than conventional HIV blood tests. The research, led by Dr. Nitika Pant Pai, a medical scientist at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC),[Read More…]
Three breakfast venues to keep your bellies full
annaisafoodie.blogspot.com In Montreal, we are spoiled with an eclectic mix of quality eateries. Considering the fact that the island of Montreal has slightly over 5,000 restaurants, combined with the shameful truth that, if my student budget allowed, I would gladly eat out for every meal, I have done my[Read More…]
An open letter from the SSMU & MCSS Senate Caucus
McGill Tribune The SSMU & MCSS Student Senators would like articulate our reactions to the events of the last month. From consultations with the student body, it is clear that the vast majority of McGill students want the same things: accessible education, consultation, open communication, and a better campus[Read More…]
Gimme some nuance!
McGill Tribune Despite three years of writing opinion columns on this campus, I have a dismal track record of actually voicing any opinions about this campus. This is because it is remarkably difficult to inject a sense of nuance into discussions that take McGill by storm, and throwing[Read More…]
