On Nov. 17, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the 2026 Met Gala theme, “Costume Art,” in honour of the new 12,000 square foot gallery space that will house the Costume Institute’s annual spring exhibition. The Met Gala has consistently been a spectacle that sparks widespread discussion; the theme is[Read More…]
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Trust, community, and the burden of leadership take centre stage in ‘The Grown-Ups’
When the world around you changes in an instant, and you’re responsible for the safety of hundreds of young campers, what kind of leader will you choose to be? Tuesday Night Café Theatre’s production of The Grown-Ups, by Simon Henriques and Skylar Fox, explores how personal decisions feed into or[Read More…]
Love is a verb
Late on a Saturday night of St. Laurent bar-hopping, you walk into the dingy bathroom of Bar Bifteck to find a college-aged stranger kneeling over the toilet. They appear to be alone. You go over and ask if they are okay, offering to hold their hair back or to get[Read More…]
The newest ‘Frankenstein’ adaptation redefines its iconic characters
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein hit theatres in mid-October and is now streaming on Netflix. The film is an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel of the same name, which is a classic in English literature and is often thought of as the first science fiction novel. The story follows the[Read More…]
Inclusion done wrong: The backlash against Sky Sports’ Halo account
Sky Sports’ short-lived TikTok account, Halo, which was marketed as “Sky Sports’ lil sis,” lasted mere days before the company quietly pulled the plug due to intense backlash. Originally designed to “create a space alongside Sky’s existing social channels for new, young, female fans,” the initiative instead sparked immediate criticism.[Read More…]
ChatGPT, three years in
Across higher education, professors, students, and administrators are grappling with how to respond to the widespread availability of fast, free, and increasingly capable chatbots like ChatGPT. In a survey conducted by The Tribune with 46 McGill undergraduate participants, only one in five students reported not using ChatGPT for class, while[Read More…]
Art exhibition ‘Comfort and Indifference’ invites a reflection on shielded spectatorship
In a world where scrolling past tragedy has become routine, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MAC) latest exhibition Comfort and Indifference asks us to reflect on the human cost of ignoring suffering while surrounding ourselves with comfort. On view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which made one[Read More…]
The poppy ban gets neutrality wrong
Everything is political—but not everything should be policed. This is the tension that sits at the heart of a recent decision in Nova Scotia, in which the judiciary ruled that court staff must seek the presiding judge’s permission to wear the Remembrance Day poppy, terming it a ‘symbol of support’[Read More…]
The cost of McGill’s excellence
Over the last two years, McGill has widely publicized its rise in the QS World University Rankings, which most recently identified the university as Canada’s top school and the 27th best worldwide. However, this publicity obscures a jarring campus reality from community awareness: Academic staff continue to call out McGill[Read More…]
Sudan’s genocide is fueled by global and local apathy toward Black lives
In April 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group descended into a civil war. Since then, both groups have executed large-scale massacres and targeted ethnic cleansing against Black, non-Arab ethnic groups, such as the Masalit, Fur, and Zaghawa peoples. This genocide—enabled by a[Read More…]
