Brooks, Alberta is a slaughterhouse town. The town’s largest employer, Lakeside Packers – a meat processing plant acquired by American multinational Tyson Foods in 2001… Read More »Immigrants drawn to rural meat-packing
Farmers harness creative tactics to reach a growing market
As of this month, McGill’s food service provider, Chartwells will offer a fully-sustainable seafood menu through its partnership with SeaChoice, a Canadian organization that helps… Read More »Sustainable seafood swims into Chartwells
The challenges of Montreal food banks
McGill’s cafeterias, contracted to Chartwells Food Services, have been long chastised for failing to carry foods that are vegan, kosher, or halaal, making it difficult… Read More »McGill’s cafs offer patchy support for kosher, halaal diets
After letting the chance of a student space in Cafe Rama slip away last spring, SSMU has decided to survey student-run food services at other… Read More »News brief: SSMU to research student-run food services
Heads of State encourage foreign investment at conference
McGill teaching assistants fear lost wages are gone for good
Gatineau garage closure follows in Wal-Mart anti-union busting
Native land claims spark hostility toward Vancouver 2010 Olympic symbol
Days after promising to bail University de Québec À Montréal (UQÀM) out of its $380-million debt, Minister of Education Michelle Courchesne announced she will finally… Read More »Governance bill responds to $380-M UQAM debt
Int’l tuition hikes opposed Over 30 students from different Quebec universities protested the provincial deregulation of international tuition outside of the Quebec City summit of… Read More »News brief: International tuition hikes opposed
Sweeping guidelines make politically-sensitive areas off-limits to students, but not faculty
Peace Talks and Israel’s Control of Palestine Monday, October 20, 7 p.m. QPIRG building, 3647 University Jesse Rosenfeld, a McGill graduate in International Development Studies,… Read More »What’s the haps
SSMU councillors voted overwhelmingly against adopting as policy for the remainder of the academic year the six General Assembly (GA) motions that failed to reach… Read More »SSMU shelves GA motions
