Clay Hemmerich
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Fringe Arts
Getaway
“My nerves aren’t all there right now,” says Sarah, shaking as we walk outside of our highway motel.
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Opinions
Don’t Stop, Won’t Stop
When your main mode of transportation is a wooden plank, metal trucks, four wheels and a death wish, the mainstream populace doesn’t really like you around so much.
When skaters try to lob frontside flips on someone’s turf, a big man with big authority has orders to get them out of sight. But I have no qualms with the security guard that’s doing his job—my qualms are with the people upstairs making the rules. -
Opinions
No Compassion
Since June, 25 people have been arrested after the Service de Police de la Ville de Montreal raided four medical marijuana distribution centres, known as compassion clubs, in Montreal.
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Fringe Arts
Quick Read
Now that I’ve read Jenn Farrell’s latest collection of short stories, The Devil You Know, I understand the grim feeling of depression.
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Opinions
Editorial
There was a lot of buzz this summer about noise pollution in Montreal, particularly in the Plateau-Mont Royal borough.
Over the past three months, there were 3,000 noise complaints in the area. Notably, reputable music festivals like the Osheaga music festival and a Pop Montreal showcase held at Parc des Ameriques experienced the brunt of new efforts by the city of Montreal to address the issue of noise pollution. -
Opinions
Get What You’re Paying For
You know that one line on your tuition bill that says Student Association and Activity Fee? Well, that one line represents 13 groups on campus that provide services that many undergrads go through university never knowing they can use.
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News
Hitting the Pavement
University students from Concordia, McGill and the Universite de Montreal garnered support for those in Pakistan suffering from a catastrophic natural disaster.
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Opinions
Editorial
Over the summer months, the Concordia Student Union has been playing a game of musical chairs without giving students a voice about who’s sitting where.
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News
A Greener Concordia
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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Opinions
Grappling with Islamophobia
Recently I spoke with a girl who had immigrated to Canada from the United States. As we talked, she told me, “you know somebody’s true character when they’re faced with a threat. When America was faced with the 9/11 attacks, its first instinct was revenge instead of uniting together as a country. I didn’t like that, I don’t like people like that, so I left.”