The Daily, Le Délit and The Daily Publications Society
The McGill Daily, then a sports daily, was founded in 1911 and continues to serve the McGill community today, evolving over time into an alternative media organization. The Daily currently publishes one print edition weekly in addition to its online content, and is busy reviving Unfit to Print, its podcast produced at CKUT.
Le Délit Français first appeared in 1977. Initially a French-language section in the Daily's regular editions, Le Délit has since become a fully independent newspaper. In 2016, Le Délit was awarded the prize for "best university student newspaper", receiving Le Devoir de la presse étudiante ex aequo with UQAM's L'Artichaut.
Over the years, The Daily and Le Délit alumnis have joined the journalistic world at CBC/Radio-Canada, the Montreal Gazette, La Presse, the National Post, Le Droit, On the Media, and Saturday Night Live, among many others. This has reinforced DPS's identity as an alternative journalism school at McGill, which does not offer its own journalism program. To find out more about the experiences of former editors now working in journalism, take a look at our testimonials page!
Who is a DPS member?
All undergraduate and graduate students at the downtown campus, with the exception of students at the School of Continuing Education, non-residents and medicine and dentistry students.
Why are we holding this referendum? What is it about?
The DPS has not seen a fee increase since 2010, even though inflation in Canada has risen by some 39.72% since then. Financial pressures are mounting, and in the long term, current dues will no longer allow the sustainable publication of Le Délit and The Daily. This semester already, several editions have had to be cancelled due to these growing constraints.
DPS is an independent, non-profit, student-run organization that publishes and distributes The Daily and Le Délit. A successful referendum would result in an increase of $1.50 per term for undergraduate students, from $6.00 to $7.50. For graduate students, depending on their status, fees would increase by $1.00 from $3.35 to $4.35, or by $0.50 from $1.68 to $2.18 per semester.
For the price of two coffees, we'll be able to guarantee an independent and free media coverage by and for McGill students.
To support us, vote "YES" to our referendum by using this link.
What will the fee increase be used for?
The funds we receive from students are essential. Yet these fees have not been increased since 2010, since they are not indexed to inflation. An increase in funding is necessary to :
- ensure the continuity of Le Délit and The Daily in the coming years, and meet their respective editorial needs;
- continue to pay the rent for the offices from which each of the weekly editions of the newspapers are produced;
- cover growing printing costs;
- cover software costs and the renewal of production equipment;
- pay the salaries of the few part-time and full-time employees who work in the advertising office;
- provide modest financial support to our editors, who spend countless hours preparing a new edition weekly;
- ensure the same pace of newspaper production and coverage of issues that concern you.
As a non-profit organization, we publish our annual financial report shortly before our Annual General Meeting in October. Furthermore, any DPS member is welcome to attend our general meetings, or to contact the Chairman of the Board at any time with questions.
Why should I support The Daily and Le Délit?
Le Délit and The Daily are student-run: any student can get involved as a contributor, editor or board member. Furthermore, we hold annual general assemblies in order to give members more opportunities to help shape the organization according to their own vision.
Le Délit and The Daily provides a free and independent media coverage by and for McGill students. Our mission is to provide democratized access to independent information on campus, in which everyone can contribute. Indeed, even on an ad hoc basis, any student can propose a publication and fuel the debate.
The two publications make their content available online, and distribute the two newspapers weekly around campus on racks.