Grassroots media, including campus radio, offer a vital alternative to the homogenous mainstream, especially in Canada, where a clutch of corporations own most of our… Read More »Hyde Park: Alternative media amplifies diverse voices
So, you think I write like shit, do ya? Re: “There’s a new Daily in town, and it’s called The Trib” | Commentary | March… Read More »Three pages of your letters!
The longevity and complexity of the Arab-Israeli conflict, along with the contention it arouses when discussed, have always interested me and made me to want… Read More »Hyde Park: Thinking against your bias
It’s all over – both my time at McGill and at The Daily. While the usual feelings of uncertainty and fear that most soon-to-be graduates… Read More »Why I like The Daily
The “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land” stickers pasted all around McGill have become something of a symbol of radical thought. Their message is explicit,… Read More »Hyde Park: Unpacking the sticky simplicity
Afghanistan’s history is ridden with invasion and foreign occupation. It abounds with insurgency, and is scarred by incessant conflict. Migration is a permanent feature of… Read More »Hyde Park: Our commitment is to humanity
“In my first year, I read The Daily all the time and loved how it explored all the cultural and social justice issues I cared… Read More »Public Editor: Some solutions to The Daily’s marginalization problem
What would Raphael Lemkin, the audacious author of the 1951 Genocide Convention and the man who coined the word “genocide,” think of Sudanese president Omar… Read More »Hyde Park: When justice is not enough
“I’m glad to be with you…here at the end of all things.” – Frodo Baggins Terrible, isn’t it? After all the sweat, tears, laughter and… Read More »Life Lines: Steps to the end of the tunnel with little feet
While I know that humans are more complex than molecules – in that molecules lack such important human characteristics as consciousness, agency, reason, and so… Read More »The Conversationalist: Don’t call me molecule: a glimpse into law and nature
We write this letter to express the concerns we share as five Residence Academic Staff members (floor fellows). Although we have been in constant conversation… Read More »Hyde Park: Let’s talk about residence issues
I have always found the prefacing quotations in Piñata Diplomacy rather cute. Be it Chomsky or Walt Whitman or Jesus’s homeboy Luke, the man, Ricky… Read More »Aristotle’s Lackey: Busting the Piñata: a response
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”… Read More »Piñata Diplomacy: What Matt Damon teaches us about education
I’m a pretty gentle gent. I drink green tea and buy wine for the pictures on the bottles. I own a plant, believe in true… Read More »Life Lines: A gentle gent’s appeal to the world’s weather jocks
For years, students moving into residence at McGill have been asked to live according to two rules: “Respect,” and “Don’t fuck with the fire equiptment.”… Read More »Editorial: Residence director must improve, or go
