Every few years, a cult classic emerges from the morass of contemporary Canadian film. In 2002 it was Men With Brooms; last year, it was… Read More »No hockey allowed in Canada’s next cult film, Rock, Paper, Scissors
Right now, I am reading Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. The novel is written in the first person plural, as if… Read More »Hand to Mouth: Josh Ferris: Despicable hipster, capable writer, or both?
I’m lying in bed, reading, and my girlfriend George (short for Georgina) is there beside me, reading too. Suddenly, I laugh out loud. George turns… Read More »The Hipless Boy: Killing, eating
Food Services Committee favours student-run food initiatives
And why we might never understand them
Forty-eight hours before last Thursday’s SSMU council, The McGill Tribune received documents containing a motion that would force The Tribune out of the Students’ Society.… Read More »Tribune to SSMU: You done us wrong
All the school is a stage While most students are buckling down for term papers and finals right now, the actors, directors and theatre nerds… Read More »Culture Briefs
There’s something tragic about monuments built to an optimism that faded decades ago. The Soviet Union’s contribution to Expo ‘67, for instance: a large, concrete… Read More »Remembrance of times past: This is Montreal!
McGill’s seventh annual ReThink conference drew about 80 students, faculty, and administrators Friday, with topics ranging from the University’s past environmental initiatives to ways it… Read More »ReThink conference brews sustainable development plans
SSMU councillors and students in the gallery went on the attack against the SSMU executive for failing to prioritizing student space during the question period… Read More »Council heats up over space
Japan’s National Film Center is not afraid to air its dirty laundry in an anime retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québecoise
Every semester, students are purchasing course packs full of material they have already paid for. Arts Senator Lynne Champoux-Williams recently released a report showing how… Read More »Course packs could go online, cut costs
A jargon-y defense of jargon Re: “Activism’s jargon epidemic” | Commentary | March 27, 2008 I was troubled by the trajectory by which Floh Herra-Vega’s… Read More »Classical, kids, and Connolly
Pro-Justice group demands answers for farmer’s unexplained disappearance, massacre
Rust fungus threatens to push food prices even higher
