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
Creation of an Anti-Violence Fee Levy – YES The McGill Daily editorial board endorses a “yes” vote for the creation of an Anti-Violence Fee Levy… Read More »SSMU Fall 2018 Referendum Endorsements
On October 29, at 10:30 p.m., 6,000 Canada Post employees in Montreal walked out from their jobs as part of the rotating postal worker strike… Read More »Postal Workers’ Strike Isn’t an “Inconvenience”
content warning: anti-Indigenous slurs, racism A demonstration calling for the change of the “R*dmen” name, which currently designates all McGill men’s varsity teams, will be… Read More »Change the Name!
On October 17, recreational marijuana was legalized in Canada under the Cannabis Act. The Act makes it illegal to possess more than 30 grams of… Read More »Legalization: Not Everyone Gets to Celebrate
In response to the ad hoc collective of survivors and their allies
content warning: xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism On October 7, thousands of people attended the Great Demonstration Against Racism, which was co-organized by multiple organizations, including the… Read More »Yes, the CAQ is Racist
In the article published on September 4, 2018 called “Survivor-centric Approach Must Come First,” it was stated that “Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim […] was accused of sexual… Read More »Statement of Retraction
