Business leaders share success with students

Sam Reynolds / McGill Tribune On Jan. 27, students, faculty, administration, and alumni came together at the Omni Hotel for the 32nd Management Achievement Awards. The event honoured four individuals in the business world who had exemplified entrepreneurial skills, using their success to give back to the community. The event[Read More…]

Super Bowl XLVI

Two contributors give their take on the rematch of Super Bowl XLII by identifying the key offensive and defensive matchups while giving their own X-Factors …  Giants Offence The talk about quarterbacks leading up to the Super Bowl will undoubtedly favour the prowess of Tom Brady, but the fact of[Read More…]

New low cost mobile carrier made available in France

cnetfrance.fr For many cell phone users in North America, wrangling companies’ hefty monthly rates and paying for add-ons like voicemail and caller ID has become a necessary evil. Until very recently, the same used to be true for cell phone users in France. A new cell phone operator, which hit[Read More…]

Defining Mike Babcock

"Regular" is not a word to describe Mike Babcock. It's the opposite of regular to be the only coach in NHL history to have won an Olympic gold medal, a World Championship gold medal, and a Stanley Cup. In the eyes of professional sports, Mike Babcock is anything but regular.[Read More…]

High-flying McGill student meets with Pakistan PM

Courtesy of Zohaib Asad In 2011, Pakistani student Zohaib Asad earned a record-breaking 28 ‘A’s in the University of Cambridge International O-Level Examinations, a high school examination program run by the University of Cambridge that’s  taken in over 80 countries.    This month, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani invited[Read More…]

The Referenda results were clear

McGill Tribune The assertion by Professor Mendelson and supported by the McGill Tribune (“Admin was right to refuse the referenda”  Jan. 16, 2012) that the referenda questions run by QPIRG McGill and CKUT 90.3fm were unclear betrays a particularly low estimate of the intelligence of McGill students. We asked students[Read More…]

Websites dark for a day in protest of U.S. anti-piracy bills

en.wikipedia.org Black banners confronted visitors to the English version of Wikipedia, reddit and several other websites this past Wednesday as part of the largest online political demonstration in history. The websites were protesting two proposed bills in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA),[Read More…]

McGill’s Shortest Course: Premiers 101

Canadian premiers are like janitors: you’re not always sure how they got into the building, or how long exactly they will stay. Yet unlike janitors, our provincial leaders get six-figure salaries and don’t always leave the place clean. In Canada’s federal system they wield a fair amount of power, and[Read More…]

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