Commentary

In this campus’s efforts at inclusion, it seems we have missed a step. In our chemistry labs, in our PhD seminars, in our cafeterias, there… Read More »Editorial: Rights for student parents

Usually, all I receive in my email account for this column are messages from Esteban Kramer urging me to consider buying some penny-stocks on the… Read More »Hand to Mouth: Padraic opens his mailbag

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

Vote Yes for your sworn enemies Sirs, To my dear fellow sensible and pragmatic people on campus who think The Daily is a dirty pinko… Read More »Letters: Manosij Majumdar floods The Daily letters section while editors hastily assemble ark

You may have heard that the University administration is trying to control whether SSMU clubs and services can use the word “McGill” in their names.… Read More »Hyde Park: Admin to McGill First Aid: not in our name

Three weeks ago, protesters tore pages with a military recruitment ad out of The McGill Tribune, risking severe paper cuts to save their fellow students… Read More »You are here: Our cloak-and-dagger campus

Running a referendum campaign takes a lot of time, energy, and money, but it has its perks: students have actually sat down to read through… Read More »Hyde Park: A user’s guide to shaping The Daily

After this Monday’s Daily feature on the contemporary significance of Pride, I feel compelled to throw in my own two cents. The first time I… Read More »Hive Mind: Pride, shame, and coming out

Religious texts are fascinating. Yet I am constantly perplexed as to how the beautifully crafted words and lessons found on scrolls and leaves – from… Read More »Hyde Park: The poetry of Islam

Truth is, I’m quite disgusted with the outcome of last Monday’s mandatory candidates’ meeting, led by Elections McGill. There are too many regulations impeding candidates… Read More »Hyde Park: Why I dropped out of the SSMU election

Susan Jacoby’s book The Age of American Unreason is a pleasant combination of ornery traditionalism and vicious invective. She takes up the mantle of what… Read More »Hand to Mouth: Susan Jacoby and The Age of Unreason

Well, it’s begun. Saturday morning at 9 a.m., ovs.ssmu.mcgill.ca went live. This week, undergrads will log on and vote whether or not to continue funding… Read More »Comment: The Daily needs you this week

In the article “Nuit Blanche hits Shatner tonight”, (News, March 6) The Daily implied that the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) led the organization of Nuit… Read More »Erratum

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are all the rage these days in Quebec City. Under the auspices of the Quebec Infrastructures Plan launched last Fall, the current… Read More »Seizing Solitude: The public-private problem

Vote Yes for acrostics! Re: “Vote Yes for The Daily” | Commentary | March 6, 2008 Daring Awesome Intelligent Legacy Yes!!! Vote YES!!!! Dina Cipin… Read More »Letters: Daily readers weigh in on the referendum and discuss this “blogging” fad