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Quebec gets peek at president’s tuition plan
Quebec university students to pay Canadian average for tuition by 2020
If Concordia President Judith Woodsworth has her way, your tuition might start an eight-year climb in 2012 that will bring it to the Canadian average of $5,000 a year.
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K’naan coming to Concordia
Award winning hip-hop artist to perform at student union’s orientation
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Student Union loans $45,000 to volunteer program
Little opposition on council to use of presidential decree
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CSU President Resigns
VP Services Heather Lucas appointed to finish term
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Dawson College to Vote on CFS membership
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TAPthirst to fight bottled water on campus
By January 2011, Concordia could be the first bottled water-free campus in Quebec, if TAPthirst Concordia, a student group lobbying against the privatization of water, has their way.
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G20 Protesters in Court
300 appear to face charges in Toronto
Franc Lévesque-Nichol woke up in the middle of a police raid. Like so many other G20 protesters, Lévesque-Nichol spent the early hours of June 28 sleeping in a University of Toronto Gymnasium.
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A Challenging Mandate
‘Racial profiling must be addressed by new police chief’: community leader
When Mayor Tremblay announced he wanted Marc Parent to serve as Montreal’s new police chief on Aug. 19, he outlined a set of priorities for the city’s top cop.
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A Greener Concordia
Green wall to Blossom on Reggie’s Terrace
Concordia students will enjoy a greener Reggie’s terrace this fall.
Co-operative Verticale and Concordia University collaborated to build the school’s first green wall. Two large steel brackets—each approximately four feet by eight feet—are fixed to the wall on Reggies terrace on either side of an existing mural and filled with plants.
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McGill Closes Portion of McTavish Street to Traffic
McGill students are sheepish about stepping onto the campus’ new pedestrian street. Although the southern half of McTavish Street has been closed to motorists and cyclists since May 28, pedestrians are still clinging to the sidewalk.
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Off to Court: Six Months is Enough
Student Union to ask Quebec judge to settle CFS question
The Concordia Student Union is ready for court.
For six months, the CSU has tried to sever its ties with the Canadian Federation of Students—a national lobby group that represents college and university students—through democratic means. Now, the student union will be taking its case against the CFS before a judge. -
Tensions Run High at Hoodstock
Citizen Forum Against Racial Profiling Returns to Montreal North
Two years after the shooting death of Fredy Villanueva, hundreds took to Montreal North’s rainy streets to honour the slain teen and protest police brutality in the neighbourhood.
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‘I saw more than I wanted to see’
The story behind the detainees at 629 Eastern Avenue
Over six hours on the night of June 27 we spoke to nearly 120 of the detainees to leave the Toronto Film Studio, a sound stage retrofit with cages to hold people arrested during the G20 summit. Although each had a different story to tell, the larger picture remained constant.
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Conditions at G20 Dentention Centre are illegal, immoral and dangerous
Detainees forced in cages with little food and water for up to 35 hours
It is next to impossible to set the scene of what happened at the Detention Centre. Between the two of us we estimate that we spoke to over 120 people, most of whom were released between 9:30 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. Despite not knowing each other, the story they tell is the same.
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First Nations G20 protest at Queen’s Park
No clashes with police as protestors call for better treatment
About 350 protesters turned out on June 24 in front of Queen’s Park, Ontario’s legislature, as part of a First Nations protest in conjunction with the 2010 G8/G20.
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Death and ballots
Filipino vote marks end of a decade with 1,000 political killings
During outgoing Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration, violence has played a vital role in the political process. Amnesty International reports that as of May 7, at least five candidates and 16 campaign organizers were murdered during this year’s campaign.
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Defederation denied
National lobby group won’t recognize results of CSU March referendum
On May 28, the CSU called for a motion to have their referendum to defederate from the Canadian Federation of Students recognized by the national lobby group at its annual general meeting in Ottawa. CFS chairperson Katherine Giroux-Bougard shot the motion down immediately, ruling it out of order.
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Turning it in
Concordia pilots anti-plagiarism software this summer
Quietly over the summer session, Concordia’s Centre for Teaching and Learning Services has piloted an American-based anti-plagarism software called Turnitin in the university’s classrooms over the last three weeks.
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50 cent raise on minimum wage
Still pays less than poverty line
Quebec’s minimum wage increased by 50 cents on May 1, as the province’s 320,000 lowest paid workers will now make $9.50 an hour. Despite rising at nearly three times the rate of inflation since the wage was set at $7.30 an hour in 2003, a 40-hour work week at the new minimum wage would still pay less than Canada’s poverty line.
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Montrealers unite against Israeli flotilla attack
Protesters across Canada call for end to Gaza blockade
Hundreds of Montrealers marched through the city’s rainy streets on June 5 to protest the Israeli Navy’s lethal attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship a week earlier.
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PQ study finds use of French waning in Montreal
According to a study the Parti Québécois published in April, the use of the English language could surpass French in Montreal as early as 2016. The PQ concludes that by 2016, the percentage of Montrealers speaking French as a first language will drop from 79 per cent in 2006 to 43 per cent.
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