Commentary

It’s that time of the year again. Three weeks have passed since our Christmas holiday ended, and we’re already salivating over the next big one:… Read More »You Are Here: Internships 101: A Daily Guide

It is 3:00 AM and you’re sound asleep on a cold winter night. Suddenly the alarm goes off, forcing you to jump out of your… Read More »McGill residences: a governance model par excellence

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

Piñata diplomacy

As someone who has worked closely with this year’s SSMU exec, I found Jake Heller’s Hyde Park (“We’re spending $120,000 on what?”, March 30) to… Read More »Hyde Park: SSMU works damn hard

We count ourselves lucky that we’ll be back next year, despite increasing competition on and off campus, and with the recession exacerbating the already troubling… Read More »Editorial: The growing importance of Independent Media

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