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These issues are sure to wake you in your sailors’ hammock. And maybe send you running for your rum ration. Campaign McGill The ambitious $750-million… Read More »Wrecked: Mutinies and storms

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North, east, west, south – they’re directions, sure, but they also stand for what you’ll be interested in around campus and Montreal. That’s right, the… Read More »Wrecked: Straight from the parrot’s mouth

McGill puts a treasure chest of technology at our fingertips, but things can be difficult to access if you don’t know they exist. Perk up… Read More »Wrecked: Hi-tech on the high seas

Few stories of people marooned on islands end well. Robinson Crusoe had his run-in with cannibals and Tom Hanks wound up talking to a volleyball.… Read More »Wrecked: Papers, not pillaging

To the freshly shipwrecked outsider, the geographical arrangement of Montreal’s indigenous peoples may seem mysterious and intimidating. Let this be your guide. Montreal North A… Read More »Wrecked: Get oriented

Do you identify with Tom Hanks in Castaway? Or is Titanic more your bag? Maybe the old Swiss Family Robinson series really gets you? Well,… Read More »Wrecked: A cinematic escape

Used books To reduce the cost of books each semester, buy worn-in volumes. The McGill Bookstore (3420 McTavish) and the Word (469 Milton) offer a… Read More »Wrecked: Recliaming your booty

Shipwrecked pirates might want to resort to surfing as a mode of transportation. Surfing the web, that is. Here are three oases in Montreal’s online… Read More »Wrecked: Surf spots

[Correction appended] When your on-board first aid kit leaves you high and dry, there are a boatload of professionals ready to answer any distress signal.… Read More »Wrecked: This ship’s-a-sinkin’

Now that you’ve washed ashore, you might as well learn something – say, from a textbook. You can buy them here: Haven Books 2074 Aylmer… Read More »Wrecked: Textbook-trawling

You will soon find that even Montreal natives can be affected by their secluded island lifestyle. Thankfully, long-time inhabitants have discovered a myriad of ways… Read More »Wrecked: Shanty time!

Forgot to pack adequate reading material before you set out on the high seas? Agonizing over which CDs you’d bring if you were stranded on… Read More »Wrecked: Tunes and tomes

A group of privateers rule ship McGill with an iron hook. They have a taste for evicting groups from campus spaces, unilaterally hiking student fees,… Read More »Wrecked: The powerful

Zimbabwe is in turmoil. The delayed release of presidential election results has spread fears that incumbent Robert Mugabe, a dictator who has ruled the country… Read More »A torturous wait