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Your mind isn't colourblind
Images of empowerment can defeat subconscious racism
A study just released by Statistics Canada projects that by 2031 at least one in three Canadians will belong to a visible minority group. Canada’s attitude toward multiculturalism is paradoxical, simultaneously promoting sustenance of cultural practices while espousing that we...
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Owen's spider colour
A short story
I Adrienne was the first girl Owen ever loved. He knew because all the little things, like making a cup of tea or riding his bike to campus, felt like the best things. She had round blue eyes and a...
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Teaching unemployment in Cameroon
The disconnect between the curriculum’s European ideals and the training relevant to a rural economy
In my estimation, the people of Kumbo, Cameroon are not generally poor. But for those on the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum, adding school fees to the budget means something has to give – especially in the surrounding villages,...
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Misdiagnosing difference
The new edition of the principal psychiatric manual, open to public comment for the first time, has the potential to revise stigmatizing diagnoses
On February 10, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a draft version of the fifth edition of its Diagnostic Statistic Manual (DSM). The DSM is widely-used both inside and outside the United States as a reference for mental disorders. The...
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Telling uncomfortable truths
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
Correction appended. What first drew me was that The McGill Daily was all about taking chances. The paper was about digging for the hard facts and about daring to tell the uncomfortable truths. Some of those truths were unethical acts...
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Pranks, plots, and the skills and thrills of journalism
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
It is no surprise that engineering students at McGill are campaigning against The Daily. It was ever thus. During my tenure, we used to finish laying out the paper (waxing stories and headlines onto layout sheets) after midnight, and leave...
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Good call
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
College years are fraught with bad decisions, but joining the staff of The McGill Daily is one choice I remain proud of to this day. The Daily turned me from rookie band interviewer to actual professional (employable) writer and editor...
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Finding your calling in the Redmen locker room
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
The McGill Daily provided me with my first brush with journalism some 40 years ago. And without question, allowed me to have a lot of good fun poking into the business of others, a pursuit I discovered at The Daily...
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Every student deserves this opportunity
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
Newspapers matter. They matter to writers, they matter to readers, they matter to the people featured in their pages – in pictures and in words. As a writer and editor of The Daily, I got to know my city and...
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It did then and it does now
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
I hadn’t encountered terrorism first-hand prior to that year. It was 1970, my second year as a McGill undergrad. It was terrifying and unreal at the same time. We read The McGill Daily for news of what was going on...
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"Dangerous" ideas that went mainstream
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
I guess I knew before coming to McGill that I would get involved with The Daily. I had been editor of my high school newspaper and my mother had written book reviews for The Daily back in the ’30s. By...
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From Shatner to Parliament Hill
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
For the last five years I’ve worked as a senior advisor to Jack Layton and the New Democrats on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. I’ve had the opportunity to work directly with elected officials, heads of government, and members of the...
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"The Daily makes your campus a better place"
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
The McGill Daily is the finest journalism school in the country. I speak from my time there, from 1999 to 2001, but also based on the graduates I’ve worked with and met. It’s also the cheapest – once you’ve paid...
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The Daily > Derrida
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
I remember a conversation I had with a dean once in which I asked why McGill doesn’t offer journalism as part of its curriculum. “We don’t teach ‘how-to’ courses here,” he said. Besides being pompous, he didn’t make much sense....
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"An experience that transcends generations"
McGill alumni discuss what the paper taught them and its place at McGill
In 1996, exactly 20 years after I graduated from McGill, the alumni of The McGill Daily staff held its first-ever reunion. It coincided with, but was completely separate from, the official McGill entre-nous in Montreal the same weekend. Besides the...