Commentary

How Newton, Pythagoras, and morality come to dinner

“O death, where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?” – 1 Corinthians 15:55 There was an article in The New York Times… Read More »Piñata diplomacy: Death is not a failure

On Saturday, October 18, McGill hosted the remarkable environmentalist James Speth, Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, as guest… Read More »Hyde Park: Improving campus sustainability

In “Quebec dismisses fired TAs’ grievances” (News, Oct. 23), The Daily reported that some teaching assistants (TAs) were unionized in their secondary positions; in fact,… Read More »Errata

What Chartwells, Schwartz’s, and sugar shacks don’t want you to know

Incoherence and contradiction is the norm with our attitudes toward nonhuman animals. We are, as Rutgers University law professor Gary Francione puts it, guilty of… Read More »Hyde Park: Curing our moral schizophrenia

Vegetarianism grows in a three-dimensional community – a word derived from the Latin words for “together” and “gift or service” – while meat-eating festers in… Read More »Hyde Park: Welcome to 3-D vegetarianism

A semantic battle Re: “Resister? More like deserter” | Commentary | Oct. 9 Mike Prebil correctly noted in his letter that Jeremy Hinzman, if deported… Read More »Letters: Semantics, Speling, and Intra-daily mail

This has been a rough year for labour on campus. Teaching assistants (TAs) are still fighting to be paid for work-hours completed before their long,… Read More »Hyde Park: Respect and fair employment for all teaching staff

I love Romantic poetry, but according to my uncle, it’s “completely useless, and contributes nothing to society. It’s a self-indulgent, self-satisfying area of study, and… Read More »The conversationalist: The case for irrelevance

Editorial

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Inform yourself about Harper’s “harm-reduction” policies Re: “Health care issue often ignored in campaigns” | Mind & Body | Oct. 9 I was disappointed to… Read More »Letters: Sex, the military, and Zoog

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Film critique a perfect example why the National Federation of the Blind continues to fight derogatory accounts of blind people in the media