Alex Manley

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  Opinions

  No, Greenhouse. No.

  Alex Manley – Updated March 28, 2013 at 3:21pm

  You’ve probably never seen it, you’d be hard-pressed to find it, but the Concordia Greenhouse is looking for your money at the student election.

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  Nah’msayin?

  Alex Manley – Published March 11, 2013

  It’s March already, which means the number of new faces at Concordia’s Le Gym is down significantly from the unrealistic high of the first week of January.

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  Special Issue

  The Gender & Sexuality Issue

  Elysha del Giusto-Enos & Alex Manley – Published March 5, 2013

  Human beings seem to like dualities. Life is easier to navigate that way. But binaries don’t always slip so neatly onto human affairs, however much we’d like them to. In this special issue, we look at man/woman and gay/straight.

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  Special Issue

  Watch Your Language

  Alex Manley – Published March 5, 2013

  In February, Sarah Nicole Prickett, ex-Globe and Mail columnist and freelance journalist, kicked off a minor controversy with the publication of her online article for Vice, officially titled “Where Are All the Women?”

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  Sports

  Too Little, Too Late

  Alex Manley – Published February 11, 2013

  With 41 seconds left in the third period, Concordia’s men’s hockey season was on the line.

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  Special Issue

  “This Is Not an Isolated Movement”

  Alex Manley – Published February 5, 2013

  Something had to give. That’s the sense that you get when you look at the Idle No More movement, the scope of which now encompasses hunger strikes, spirited demonstrations across the country, a range of hash tags and continued coverage from news sources nation-wide.

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  Opinions

  Nah’msayin?

  Alex Manley – Published January 21, 2013

  They’re a sort of time-travelling RoboCop of the classroom. They fear not the social codes that keep the rest of us strictly bound. They boldly speak where no twenty-something has dared to speak before. Yes, I’m talking about over-talkative mature students.

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  Concert Review: Titus Andronicus

  Posted by Alex Manley in FringeBlog on December 2, 2012

  A few hours before Titus Andronicus took to the modest, two-foot-high wooden stage at Il Motore Wednesday night, my friend Nat asked me if I was excited for the show.

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  Opinions

  Death by Taxes

  Alex Manley – Published November 27, 2012

  On Thursday, the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante organized a protest for free tuition in Montreal, the latest in the long-running series of student movement marches occurring on the 22nd of the month.

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  Nah’msayin?

  Alex Manley – Published November 20, 2012

  As part of an effort to be as cool as Australia, Canada’s in the process of updating its bills to be super-duper high-tech.

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  Fringe Arts

  Mac’s Back

  Alex Manley – Published November 13, 2012

  Mac DeMarco has a certain ambivalence to modern rock ’n’ roll stardom. After playing for years in Vancouver under the moniker Makeout Videotape, the gap-toothed, 22-year-old Edmonton native settled here in 2010 and started…

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  Do All Mags Go to Heaven?

  Alex Manley – Published October 23, 2012

  God, they say, works in mysterious ways. Bad news is often just good news waiting to reveal itself, if only you wait it out for a little.

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  Whoop! Whoop! That’s the Sound of Irony

  Alex Manley – Published October 16, 2012

  Last Tuesday, in an online article about the ongoing Charbonneau Commission, CTV Montreal shared a crucial, hilarious…

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  Opinions

  Surprise! Plagiarism is Bad for You

  Alex Manley – Published October 9, 2012

  Let’s talk about Margaret Wente.

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  News

  Concordia Kicks Emergency Preparedness Week Up a Notch

  Alex Manley – Published September 25, 2012

  It’s Emergency Preparedness Week at Concordia, and the man in charge of it, Concordia Senior Advisor on Emergency Management Darren Dumoulin, sounds like a man beset by constant worry.

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  Opinions

  Space Man

  Alex Manley – Published September 25, 2012

  Something crazy happened last week.

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  Fringe Arts

  “We Live in a Bullshit Society”

  Alex Manley – Published September 24, 2012

  There’s a moment about 15 minutes into my phone call with Chris Hannah, the guitarist and leader singer of Canadian punk/thrash stalwarts Propagandhi, when I stumble. 

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  Fringe Arts

  In Defense of BADBADNOTGOOD

  Alex Manley – Published September 12, 2012

  After weeks of avoiding the subject on Facebook, misleading the student press in interviews, failing to promote it anywhere at all and just generally prevaricating, the Concordia Student Union announced the headliners for the 2012 Orientation concert on Wednesday.

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  Opinions

  Nah’msayin?

  Alex Manley – Published September 10, 2012

  Alex Lewis Manley, if you’re out there, this means war.

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  Oui/No

  Alex Manley – Published August 28, 2012

  On Aug. 25, a Gazette article by former The Link news editor Christopher Curtis featured an interview that laid plain the feelings of many anglo Montrealers: Aside from the Liberals, “there aren’t any other options for English speakers in Quebec.”