Commentary

As many of you already know, McGill’s Teaching Assistants (TAs) will be gathering tonight for a General Assembly to determine if they should go on… Read More »Hyde Park: Support our Teaching Assistants

I’m not a wonderful person. In fact, I’m shallow, self-absorbed, and narcissistic – in other words, a typical newspaper columnist. But at least I have… Read More »You Are Here: Smile-Manner Squadron, assemble!

Et tu, brutes? While walking home two Saturdays ago, I fell upon the demonstration against police brutality. At first, I watched the protestors calmly walk… Read More »Letters: Anti-brutality protest erupts in brutality, former SSMU Prez sends dispatches from the front

I saw a poster that caught my eye the other day. Unfortunately, I forget what it was for, but I remember that it was a… Read More »Hive mind: Student activism’s jargon epidemic

Today and tomorrow, students will boycott McGill’s corporate-run cafeterias. It’s widely known that food services at McGill are inadequate. In The Globe and Mail’s 2007… Read More »Hyde Park: Boycott corporate cafeterias

The recent sex scandal involving New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is a matter of great importance, and should be discussed extensively and at length by… Read More »You are Here: Eliot Spitzer stuffs Bernard’s CV

Jake Itzkowitz is Karl Rove? Dear Mr. Itzkowitz, At the beginning of the campaign period, the Arts Undergraduates Society (AUS) made clear to candidates that… Read More »Letters: More elections shenanigans from Jake Itzkowitz?

Apparently, the recent tuition defreeze just wasn’t enough for McGill Principal Heather Munroe-Blum. In an opinion piece posted on The Gazette’s web site last week,… Read More »Editorial: Our Dollar Store Principal

Though some of you are still celebrating the resounding Yes vote The Daily got on our survival the other day, we’re already thinking about the… Read More »Hyde Park: Yes to accountability, no to neverendums

We’re just three short months into 2008, but things are looking a lot like 2004. That year, a group of students called the Coalition for… Read More »Editorial: Boycott Chartwells next Thursday

The article “TAs to demonstrate at Roddick Gates today” (News, March 13) reported that TA salaries make up six per cent of McGill’s budget. In… Read More »Errata

Flustered and running late, Coordinating editor Drew Nelles strides into the office looking every part the seasoned Dailyite. With his trademark blonde hair swept over… Read More »Public Editor: Look ma, no hierarchy!

Everyone agrees there is a crisis in education, but what does that mean? Buzz words abound – reform, underfunding, corporatization, privatization, secularization, dogmatism – while… Read More »Hyde Park: Mental health and Norman Cornett

Former Daily editor expresses support for Daily Thank you McGill undergraduate students for reaffirming your support for The Daily. For almost a hundred years, McGill… Read More »Letters: Old editors and new conspiracy theories

The provincial Minister of Finance presented her second budget last Thursday, amid concerns of a global economic slow-down. The lacklustre event failed to attract much… Read More »Seizing Solitude: Shuffling numbers at the Ministry of Finance