Culture Shock 2008
Caribbean writer asseses West Indian Revolution “Reggae music was revolution music,” explained professor and author Brian Meeks, as he described the history of the Caribbean… Read More »Culture Shock 2008
Caribbean writer asseses West Indian Revolution “Reggae music was revolution music,” explained professor and author Brian Meeks, as he described the history of the Caribbean… Read More »Culture Shock 2008
Seasonal worker status doesn’t guarantee full employee benefits
As un-scientific as it is, I started out reading The World in Six Songs with a bias. I had taken the author’s – Daniel Levitin… Read More »McGill Prof Levitin writes book, toots own horn
When I began to run for a SSMU exec position in March, I was appalled by the amount of red tape surrounding the Students’ Society… Read More »Hyde Park: Finding solutions to red tape
Incoherence and contradiction is the norm with our attitudes toward nonhuman animals. We are, as Rutgers University law professor Gary Francione puts it, guilty of… Read More »Hyde Park: Curing our moral schizophrenia
What Chartwells, Schwartz’s, and sugar shacks don’t want you to know
How Newton, Pythagoras, and morality come to dinner
Inkwell
Fat. It’s not a pretty word in the North American vocabulary. It is, however, the subject of Jennifer McLagan’s newest cookbook: Fat, an Appreciation of… Read More »In defense of fat: Jennifer McLagan on her newest cookbook
As of this month, McGill’s food service provider, Chartwells will offer a fully-sustainable seafood menu through its partnership with SeaChoice, a Canadian organization that helps… Read More »Sustainable seafood swims into Chartwells
Editorial
Vegetarianism grows in a three-dimensional community – a word derived from the Latin words for “together” and “gift or service” – while meat-eating festers in… Read More »Hyde Park: Welcome to 3-D vegetarianism
Fed up with drawn-out negotiations, about 150 of McGill’s non-academic workers picketed outside the Roddick Gates Thursday, shouting, “solidarity” and “What do we want? A… Read More »Campus eye
Daniel Lametti searches for the Plateau’s best Portuguese chicken
A semantic battle Re: “Resister? More like deserter” | Commentary | Oct. 9 Mike Prebil correctly noted in his letter that Jeremy Hinzman, if deported… Read More »Letters: Semantics, Speling, and Intra-daily mail