Editorial: Support a TA strike
McGill’s Teaching Assistants (TAs) voted in favour of a strike mandate at a special meeting last week, empowering their union to declare an unlimited strike… Read More »Editorial: Support a TA strike
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The fictions of soft and easy death
David Rieff, son of Susan Sontag, remembers his mother’s final struggle with leukemia in a new memoir
Origami transformed
Computational origami expands the scope of paper folding
McGill to sell Outdoors Club house
After nearly a century, McGill is selling the McGill Outdoors Club house in Shawbridge, an hour north of Montreal. Morton Mendelson, Deputy Provost (Student Life… Read More »McGill to sell Outdoors Club house
Of monsters and men
Local author Andrew Hood delves into the gritty side of small-town Ontario in his debut short story collection Pardon Our Monsters
Hopping to the finish
This year’s SSMU executive stumbles through the final weeks of the semester
Wikileaks web site gives whistleblowers a voice
Unjust organizations around the world face a new threat: anonymity. A new web site called Wikileaks makes whistleblowers untraceable, so that they can leak documents… Read More »Wikileaks web site gives whistleblowers a voice
Acclaimed SSMU VP Finance & Operations Tobias Silverstein speaks out
Next year’s Finance & Operations portfolio is one of the least-contested SSMU positions in recent memory – it’s been like the hot potato of exec… Read More »Acclaimed SSMU VP Finance & Operations Tobias Silverstein speaks out
2007-2008 Year in review
This year echoed with ghosts of the past. Student strikes popped up across the province, recalling the militancy of 2005. The food-services debate of 2004… Read More »2007-2008 Year in review
Nantha’s curry
Malaysian chef Nantha Kumar may be eccentric, but that in no way detracts from the quality of his cooking; in fact, some might even say… Read More »Nantha’s curry
All Hopped Up: Old world beer in New France
If, somehow, beer culture was a religion – and the zealous, prophetical, and dogmatic sides of the industry do exist – Belgium would be the… Read More »All Hopped Up: Old world beer in New France
Errata
In the article “Administrators offer weak answers to Senate questions” (News, March 27), The Daily wrote that the Safe Space program was started by three… Read More »Errata
McGill’s green progress
After years of inconsistent administrative support, a breadth of student environmental projects are breaking new ground
We come in peace: Montreal’s Alien8 recordings
Talk of the Montreal indie sound that pioneered in the early 2000s by bands such as The Unicorns has been rendered acutely obsolete. Online dissemination… Read More »We come in peace: Montreal’s Alien8 recordings
In defense of alcohol
As Mitch Hedberg once remarked, alcoholism is the only disease you can get yelled at for having. Drunks have been treated unfairly for far too… Read More »In defense of alcohol