Economic downturn spares Griffintown
Devimco scales down its $1.3- billion plan to demolish historic neighbourhood
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New development studies institute redefines vision
McGill launched the Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) on Monday with an inaugural conference focusing on the future of development. ISID will… Read More »New development studies institute redefines vision
Pakistani lawyer honoured
Pakistani human rights lawyer Asma Jilani Jahangir was awarded the Litvack Award for Aboriginal Human Rights Tuesday evening at Chancellor Day Hall for her “distinguished… Read More »Pakistani lawyer honoured
Culture Brief: This zine is a safe space
Running annually since the nineties, Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society (SACOMSS)’s art show “Fire with Water” seeks to douse the pain of sexual… Read More »Culture Brief: This zine is a safe space
Hyde Park: Dismantling the Ivory Tower goes beyond identity politics
Earlier this semester, two fellow activists writing on behalf of the McGill Anti-Racist Coalition sought to challenge academic content that creates oppressive learning environments or… Read More »Hyde Park: Dismantling the Ivory Tower goes beyond identity politics
Snowflakes in Chiapas
After spending nine days as an international observer in rural Mexico, K.R. gains a deeper understanding of the triumphs and struggles of the Zapatista movement
Monitoring Palestine from within
Bassem Eid is a Palestinian journalist and Executive Director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) – an independent organization founded in 1996 that… Read More »Monitoring Palestine from within
Afghanistan’s top Canadian soldier busts mission’s myths
Brigadier-General Thompson welcomes a stronger civilian presence
New web site helps students cram
UniversityJunction aims to link students from 56 campuses
Piñata diplomacy: Anarchist masturbation in downtown Montreal
“For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” – Luke 6:43 Last week I wrote… Read More »Piñata diplomacy: Anarchist masturbation in downtown Montreal
Culture Briefs
On the road Jack Kerouac and Vladimir Nabokov wrote about it. Bob Dylan sang its praises. David Lynch and Dennis Hopper made films in which… Read More »Culture Briefs
The saddest butcher of them all
Pascal Blanchet’s newest graphic novel merges music and melancholy
Stuck on Shuffle: From Crystal Zimbabwolf to Sex Mammoth
The naming conventions of indie music – a primer
Sexing up net neutrality
Panelists agree policy makers face generational gap
Rethinking raw concrete
Exploring the ideals behind brutalist architecture