The day we have all dreaded finally arrived this week: The slippery layer of snow that will cover the ground until April is here. While I will miss seeing grass for the next three months, the innumerable podcasts in my library are sure to make walks to campus more bearable.[Read More…]
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Ask Ainsley: How to maintain your New Year’s resolutions in three easy steps
Dear Ainsley, It is January 15th and already I have given up on my New Year’s resolution. I woke up on January 1st with a smile so wide it practically fell off my face, ready to tackle 2024. Goodbye eating cheese puffs for breakfast and watching Drew Monson every Friday[Read More…]
Befriending the light at the end of the tunnel
Last semester, I found myself entering my final year at McGill with a very foreign feeling. Many of my friends in my program had graduated the previous spring, and the unfamiliarity of the new faces around campus felt confusing and slightly distressing. Returning to school only to feel like a[Read More…]
Know Your Athlete: Scott Walford
With a number of stitches adorning his nose from a puck to the face in the Redbird’s 4-3 victory against the Windsor Lancers (10–10–0) in which he scored the overtime winner, Scott Walford sat down with The Tribune to chat about his time at McGill. Like many McGill athletes, Walford[Read More…]
Finding myself underwater
When I was three years old, my parents signed me up for my first non-parented swim class at my local recreation centre. They would drag me out of bed, dress me in a pink frilly swimsuit, and sit on the water’s edge watching my class for what felt like hours.[Read More…]
SSMU BoD ratifies motion to support UBC Trans Coalition Letter to StudentCare
The Students’ Society of McGill University’s (SSMU) Board of Directors (BoD) met on Jan. 11 to discuss the Executive Committee Report and Nominating Committee Report—tasked with evaluating candidates for the International Student Representative position—as well as a confidential session. Chair Jonathan Dong conducted the meeting, bringing attendants through the agenda[Read More…]
Dozens of students rally, call on McGill to divest from companies supporting the Israeli regime
On Dec. 14, dozens of students gathered in front of the Arts Building and demanded that the university end its investments in companies supporting or operating in the state of Israel, amounting to around 20 million dollars in total. The Divestment From Genocide rally—organized by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights[Read More…]
We who ran The McGill Daily
Uncovering McGill’s history of Black student activism and journalism in the ‘90s.
Palestinian artists will not be silenced on campus and in liberation
Since the recent escalation of violence in Gaza and the West Bank, artists worldwide are raising their voices in solidarity with Palestine, advocating for a ceasefire amidst dire violations of human rights and mass destruction of Palestinian land. In parallel, a disturbing pattern of censorship and backlash, particularly targeting Palestinian[Read More…]
Compassion, inclusivity, and respect is impossible without divestment from genocide
Content Warning: Mentions of antisemitism, Islamophobia, violence, rape and death On Nov. 9, I spoke on behalf of McGill’s pro-Palestine Jewish students at a rally organized by SPHR McGill in front of the Arts Building. Within hours, I received anonymous threats that included my full name, which I had never[Read More…]
