Christopher Curtis

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    Montreal Police Protest

    More than half of Montreal’s police force marched to city hall on Oct. 20 to protest a $35 million cut from their budget.
    Led by Montreal Police Brotherhood chairperson Yves Francoeur, about 2,500 off-duty Montreal police officers left their uniforms at home, choosing to sport their bright red Brotherhood hats and sweaters as they paraded down St. Denis Street and into Old Montreal.

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    U of Ottawa Settles Dispute With TA Union

    The University of Ottawa’s administration will not be using information obtained through espionage against members of its teacher’s assistants’ union.
    In January, former University of Ottawa professor Denis Rancourt released a report detailing an alleged covert surveillance operation carried out by the university’s legal counsel between 2006 and 2008. The targets mentioned in the report were Rancourt and several members of CUPE 2626, a union representing the university’s TAs.

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    Rabbling On

    In 1998, Judy Rebick posted an editorial denouncing the Kosovo War on the CBC’s newly launched website.
    The response Rebick’s post received sparked a revolution for media democracy in Canada. Within hours, email began pouring into her inbox from around the world. Rebick’s editorial started a conversation with readers that inspired her to create a forum for citizens to interact with media in a way that had previously been impossible.

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    Uninvited

    A motion to invite Concordia University Television to film Concordia Student Union council meetings quickly turned sour at the union’s Oct. 13 meeting.

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    Undergraduates to Vote on Student Centre

    On Nov. 24, Concordia students will vote on whether or not they want to pay a series of fee levies to fund a $43 million student centre.
    At the Concordia Student Union’s Oct. 13 council meeting, a motion to introduce a referendum question asking students to pay a $0.50 per credit fee levy that would increase for four semesters until it reaches $2.50 passed through council almost unanimously.

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    Montreal to Spend $35 Million Fighting Homelessness

    Gerald Tremblay wants to change the way Montreal deals with homelessness.
    On Oct. 13, Mayor Tremblay announced plans to build 750 new housing units for the homeless by 2013.

  • Opinions

    Nah’msayin?

    I am by no means a fashionable person, but can we institute some kind of informal moratorium on people wearing jogging pants in non-jogging situations?

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    No Place for the Homeless

    Young couples line up around the block. The line stretches along a steel fence on Ste. Catherine Street past a heap of rubble that used to be an Indian restaurant. Gradually, they trickle out of the warm September night into a showroom on Lambert Closse Street.

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    Nah’msayin?

    Why does the Stingers mascot have bulging vascular biceps? Never mind the fact that he’s a bee who has arms and wears a sweater, what I’m concerned about is the necessity for him to be absolutely ripped.

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    Cooler Heads Prevail

    The co-presidents of the Fine Arts Student Alliance narrowly avoided being recalled to election at the alliance’s first council meeting on Oct. 4.

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    Grad Students Protest Tuition Increases

    Braving the early morning rain and cold, 25 graduate students marched outside of Concordia University’s MB Building on Sept. 30 to protest tuition hikes for international students.

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    The Hive Café Within Reach

    With the expansion of the Loyola Luncheon just a few weeks away from completion, Concordia Student Union executives are looking beyond their slate’s campaign promises to develop a sustainable student run café at Loyola Campus.

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    ‘The Death of Student Space’

    McGill students are buckling down in their fight to re-open the Arch Café.

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    City Hall Cuts $35 Million From Police Budget

    Even cops are affected by the economy.

  • Opinions

    Anglo Conspiracies Against Quebec

    Take this article as a letter of confession.

    After Parti Québécois MNA Pierre Curzi discovered The Montreal Canadiens’ fiendishly clever plot to destroy Quebec nationalism, I can no longer hold in all these secrets. I feel it is my duty as a member of the city’s anglophone community to divulge what I know about the hockey club’s longstanding plan to eradicate separatism and rob Quebecers of their national identity.

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    Nah’msayin?

    I have a one-track stomach. If the threat of developing Type-2 diabetes and losing a foot weren’t so realistic, I would only ever eat sugary breakfast cereals.

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    ATMs Keep CUSACorp Afloat

    The only thing keeping the Concordia Student Union’s profit-making arm in the black are fees from on-campus ATM transactions.

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    ‘Revitalizing’ The Point

    Like most residents of Point St. Charles, Sue Vaughn is a tenant. She rents an apartment in the same building as her daughter and four grandchildren on Reading Street.

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    Steep Against the Machine

    Armed with a thermos and bags of Earl Grey, überculture took a stand for student-friendly public space in Concordia’s Hall building on Sept. 16.

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    Student Attacked at Reggie’s

    Damien Pinheiro walked into Reggie’s for a Thursday night beer with his Concordia classmates on Sept. 16.