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NewsA Substantial Reason to Stick Around
Concordia’s maintenance workers say they’re calling up retirees to fill gaps in…
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NewsDollars & Cents
Their salaries are vastly different in dollar value, but senior administrators and unionized employees at Concordia are receiving similar pay hikes each year…
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NewsConcordia Part-Time Faculty Contemplates Strike Mandate
Determined to avoid a repeat of their last round of contract negotiations, which ended after seven years of deadlocked discussions, Concordia’s part-time faculty union will vote this Sunday on whether to adopt an unlimited strike mandate.
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NewsPaying the President
On Oct. 11 the Journal de Quebec reported that Concordia University’s presidential salary is getting bumped up a notch.
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NewsTaken for a Ride
In a nondescript building on Monkland Ave. sometime in July, David decided he’d had enough. The 18-year-old student’s strange journey began in his home in China when he decided to come to Montreal to study finance at Concordia. -
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SportsPhoto of the Week
Some of the world’s most renowned cyclists convened in Montreal this weekend for the third edition Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal. One of the only two stops in North America for the International Cycling Union (UCI) World Tour, the event featured some of the biggest names in the sport, including Andy Schleck, Thomas Voeckler and Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, the most recent winner of the Giro D’Italia.
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NewsFollow the Money
A look some of the more significant political donations from Concordia’s senior administration.
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Opinions
VP Lexus
Continuing a long tradition of fiscal responsibility, Concordia spent almost $40,000 on a new car for VP Institutional Relations and Secretary-General Bram Freedman this year. And it’s a perk all VP’s can take advantage of.
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NewsNighttime Riots
After a long day of peaceful demonstrations against tuition hikes, yet another nighttime protest ended with smashed windows, tear gas and many arrests, with last night’s total reaching 122.
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NewsMay Day Mayhem
An anti-capitalist demonstration marking International Workers’ Day ended in an all too familiar way on May 1—with tear gas and over a hundred arrests.
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News“This Is All We Have to Give You.”
It’s been a rough few weeks for unionized workers in Canada.
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OpinionsProtest First Aid
Getting hit with pepper spray or tear gas is a miserable experience. But it won’t kill you.
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OpinionsConcordia Bog
Whether it’s Peter Kruyt shouting down student reps, Rita de Santis peacocking about the board room and calling students “losers” or Robert Barnes telling students to stop “pissing people off,” meetings of Concordia’s Board of Governors are rarely dull.
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OpinionsToo Quick To Crucify
It took almost no time for Montreal’s anti-police activists to make cheap politics of the tragic Jan. 6 police shooting of Farshad Mohammadi.
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OpinionsHey BoG, You Want to Talk About Contempt?
I slept in and missed last Thursday’s Board of Governors meeting. But the meetings have become more formulaic than House, and I didn’t need to actually sit through another episode to know how this mess would play out.
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OpinionsNah’msayin?
Next time you’re on the platform in Guy-Concordia Metro, look closely at the floor next to the walls. You can’t un-see it. A teeming mass of horrible little legs and antennae. Hundreds of cockroaches, some of them the size of beagles.
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OpinionsRationing Representation
Since the recent Board of Governors bloodbath, it’s pretty clear that the Concordia administration doesn’t represent us—but as it turns out, neither does our student union. Well, at least not all of us.
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OpinionsNah’msayin?
So I was walking from the Hall to the EV building the other day, going to class, just thinking about how broke and awesome I am, and in that not-even two blocks, I had to awkwardly fend off the weird, too-friendly advances of, I swear, like, 20 people.
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SportsDon’t Tell Your Mom
Think back to when you were 14, and to that little voice in your head that said, “Don’t worry, man. You can totally jump that.” Now imagine that voice grew up, saved some cash and went pro. -
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NewsNews Commentary: Mad as Hell
Ah, springtime in Montreal. That wonderful time of year when the sun starts to shine, the terrasses fill with cheerful, buzzed students and the subtle smell of tear gas wafts through the streets. It’s protest season. This summer, we’ve got a whole lot to protest about
