Articles by Colin Harris
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UQAM Classes Cancelled After Protests
Hundreds of students stormed the Université du Québec à Montréal to cancel classes on the morning of May 16. The day before a court-granted injunction allowed law students to resume their courses.
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The Part of Me You Know
Self-Reflection with Synth Trio Future Islands
Sam Herring is in a good place right now. The shows are getting bigger both in North America and in Europe, and he’s in a healthy relationship. Since most of his lyrical work for Baltimore synth pop trio Future Islands is inspired from tortured feelings of love and loss, it’s a welcomed change for the North Carolina-born singer.
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Link Live Session #6
Young Lungs
Punk-inspired indie trio Young Lungs played an acoustic version of their song “Blood on the Streets” for us at the Mile End diner Nouveau Palais.
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New Faces at Concordia
University Announces Presidential Candidate, Board Chair and JMSB Dean
Concordia announced on April 19 its recommendation for Dr. Alan Shepard as university President, along with its decision on the next Board of Governors Chair Norman Hébert and Dean of the John Molson School of Business Steve Harvey.
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INC Fee Waived
Concordia Lifts $20 Fee Due to “Exceptional Circumstances”
Students applying for Incomplete status, which allows extended deadlines for submitting work for their final grade, need not pay the usual $20 per course fee this semester.
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Blocking the Hall
First Day of Exams Sees Violence
Anti-tuition hike protesters blocked the entrance to Concordia’s Hall Building on the morning of April 12, delaying the first day of scheduled exams and increasing tension between striking and non-striking students.
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Armed With Confusion
Multi-Pronged Student Protest through the Streets of Montreal
Hundreds of students marched through downtown Montreal in waves throughout April 11 in protest of tuition increases slated to begin in September.
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Link Live Session #4
Motel Raphäel
Motel Raphaël sang folky, country harmonies over soft guitar and glockenspiel for us at Burritoville’s library on a rainy Sunday night.
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Nah’msayin?
One Doesn’t Simply Use a Meme
There was once a time where you had to do very specific things to be exposed to memes.
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No Trucks Go
CLASSE Demonstration Blocks Port of Montreal
A group of about 300 blocked an entrance to the Port of Montreal the morning of March 28.
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Editorial
Democracy How?
We had planned to write this editorial about Thursday’s Day of Action, where a historic number of students marched in the streets to voice their anger over the impending 75 per cent increase in tuition fees for Quebec undergrads.
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Making Cents of the Strike
CSU Sets Aside $9K for Strike Fund
CSU Councillors voted last Wednesday to set aside $9,000 for striking student associations.
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Weekly Spins
One Mature, One Just Starting
Any band that can pull off covering Gucci Mane and James Blake in the same set deserves some serious respect. Include the fact that it’s done in a dirty, hard jazz style and it becomes a must-listen.
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#manifencours March 13, 2012
Over 1,000 students marched through Montreal today in protest of the Charest’s government’s proposed tuition hikes. The Arts Undergraduate Society of McGill University is now holding an general assembly to vote to adopt a strike mandate.
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Editorial
A ‘Strike’ Is What You Make It
We’ve learned the hard way this week that democracy is no guarantee, even when everybody wants it.
We could dwell on a General Assembly marred with logistical failures and short attention spans, but to do so would be counter-productive at this point. It’s done; and we are in the middle of something big. -
Beyond the Picket
How Artists are Tackling the Tuition Issue
Activism can be visualized in bodies dressed in red, rippling waves of movement and free cookies. Because that’s exactly what happened for an hour on the first floor the EV building; a small student performance inclined passers-by to stop and watch and inevitably take part in the strike debate.
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Frame to Frame
The Power of Non-Violent Palestine
Budrus tells the story of a village’s struggle to keep its land amidst Israeli fences being constructed between the West Bank and Israel in 2004.
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Class Cancelled by Consensus
First-Year Theatre Students Hold Picket Line, Public Recitation
A standoff between first-year theatre students and their professor ended in a majority vote to cancel class on Tuesday afternoon.
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“They Never Killed My Spirit”
Kenyan Parliamentary Candidate Flora Terah Talks Gender Equality
The fight for the participation of women in Kenyan politics has been an uphill battle, one that member of parliament hopeful Flora Terah has paid for dearly.
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The Long Road Home
Finding Solo Inspiration With John K. Samson
Though he’s been in the Canadian music scene since the late ‘80s, this week marks a first for the Weakerthans frontman.