On Monday, August 26, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right president, rejected an aid package pledged by G7 countries to help combat the forest fires in the… Read More »Blame Fascism and Colonialism, Not Straws
On March 28, the CAQ government tabled the controversial Bill 21. This is the provincial government’s fourth attempt at limiting the religious freedom of religious… Read More »Bill 21 Isn’t Secularist, It’s Racist
On the night of March 23, the Queen Victoria statue on McGill’s campus was doused with green paint. This statue, along with the James McGill… Read More »Colonial Statues Must Go
On March 15, a white supremacist terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand resulted in the murder of 50 people during Jummah prayers at Al Noor… Read More »White Supremacy Caused the Christchurch Massacre
March 18, 2019 marks the beginning of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) at McGill and across North America. The term “apartheid” gained international attention during the… Read More »Israel is an Apartheid State
Between May 2016 and April 2017, the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) implemented a policy to equip 78 police officers with… Read More »Beyond Body Cams: The SPVM Must Be Held Accountable
On January 30, Principal Suzanne Fortier sent the student body an email with an update on the R*dmen renaming process. In her email, she stated… Read More »No Extensions for Racism: Change the Name
February 1-7 marks SSMU’s first time participating in National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. The McGill administration, however, has been criticized for cancelling its Eating Disorder… Read More »Mental Health Services Now, Renovations Later
On January 15, during a town hall meeting at Brock University, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaffirmed his condemnation of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)… Read More »Canada is Complicit in the Occupation of Palestine
content warning: mention of sexual violence As of January 1, 2019, McGill has missed the deadline set by Quebec’s Ministry of Education to update its… Read More »We Need a Better Sexual Violence Policy
On January 7, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) crossed the Gitdimt’en* checkpoint on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. This checkpoint was established to reinforce an existing… Read More »No Pipelines on Wet’suwet’en Land
content warning: police brutality, racism, ableism, death The past few decades have displayed a pattern of escalating police violence reported in North American media, and… Read More »Less Police, More Accountability
A lawsuit pending class-action status is being brought against Canadian healthcare providers by Maurice Law, an Indigenous-owned national law firm. The lawsuit is representing dozens… Read More »Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women is Genocide
Social Work Students are Striking against Unpaid Internship
content warning: police brutality, anti-Black violence On November 4, over a hundred people gathered in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce to stand in solidarity with Nicholas Gibbs’ family and… Read More »Justice for Nicholas Gibbs
