Don’t let people tell you that democracy and free speech lost at Thursday’s General Assembly (GA). Sixty per cent of the attendance simply voted to… Read More »Hyde Park: Students prove SSMU shouldn’t condemn
Interdisciplinary approach is “greater than the sum of its parts”
It never occurred to me to consider the significance of the title of Ephraim Kishon’s 1953 play His Name Precedes Him until the SSMU General… Read More »Hyde Park: No gains in dividing McGill
McGill Institute of Learning in Retirement Henna Schaikh This year the McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement (MILR) will commemorate its 20th year of providing… Read More »Senior city
Society often depicts seniors as an expanding problem – costly, burdensome, sick, and slow. We only ever hear that the aged population is ballooning and… Read More »Editors’ Note: Respect the elderly, respect yourself
As a native of Côte-Saint-Luc, a municipality of Montreal, I never thought there was anything strange about my neighbourhood. Sure the mall is overrun with… Read More »Seniors: Life at a different pace
Denial of sex among senior citizens increases the risks of isolation and STIs
The Canadian health care and social service sectors are fairly saturated with resources for senior citizens, and now more than ever, workers in these fields… Read More »Seniors: Out of the closet, into the system
Just before the fall semester of my freshman year, a friend of mine and I happened to witness the sight of someone who could not… Read More »Seniors: She’s so old
McGill prof finds economic and environmental solutions in Quaker principles
Twice as many elderly Canadian women as men are living below the poverty line, despite government funding designed to improve the conditions of those disproportionately… Read More »Seniors: Aging below the poverty line
When a high school invites the town’s grannies to speak, generational barriers are temporarily bridged
Anna Trowbridge’s masterful A One Man Show For My Brother opens at Player’s Theatre
On a typical day in class, the worries on your mind might range from the all-nighter you have to pull off tonight; to how hard… Read More »Hyde Park: Stifled discussion breeds division, not unity
What exactly did we accomplish at the General Assembly (GA) Thursday night? Perhaps if we hadn’t been dealing with a motion designed to polarize students,… Read More »Hyde Park: Talk to me, we’ll get beyond polarizing questions
