Student Life

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One McGill graduate’s fruitful job hunt

Last week, my one-time co-editor at the Tribune, and now full-time friend in real life, wrote about his post-McGill life and argued that McGill really is an amazing place. Something he mentioned, and I’ve been thinking about for the past five months, is that you don’t realize how great it[Read More…]

Movember

Sam Reynolds Today marks the first day of Movember (the month formerly known as November), a full 30 days dedicated to the grooming and acknowledgment of the moustache—the Mo. This is all done in order to raise money and awareness for men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer. The rules: each[Read More…]

One senator’s request causes a polarized debate

haigoarts.blogspot.com wallpaperslibrary.com The beaver is thirty-six years into its tenure as Canada’s national emblem, and last week it faced its biggest challenge yet. As Senator Nicole Eaton said in a statement to the Canadian Senate, the beaver is both an outdated symbol and a destructive rodent. She believes we must[Read More…]

Failure to predict the apocalypse is nothing new

Friday, Oct. 21 came and went without so much as a hint of jubilant trumpets or rumbling heavens. Despite warnings from Harold Camping, a Californian radio-evangelist, the rapture did not come. Considering his past failed predictions, the uneventful Friday came as no surprise to many. A couple of months ago,[Read More…]

Costume how-to

Halloween is fast approaching—the time of year when introverts come out of their shells, extroverts can become downright obnoxious, and costume geeks go insane. It’s our annual chance to be whoever we want, and to step into a completely different outfit, with a completely different character. Here are a few[Read More…]

One of America’s first hipsters

Rock n’ roll tested the ‘50s. Hippies protested the ‘60s and ‘70s. Similarly, the hipster subculture of recent years has been challenging the established conventions of youth, and doing so with increasing press, influence, and sartorial expression. In theory, hipsterism—through independent thinking, progressive politics and, perhaps most clichéd, an artsy[Read More…]

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