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NewsConcordia Undergraduate International Students to Face Tuition Hikes in September
As of September 2019, new international students in deregulated programs will see a yearly tuition increase between 4.25 per cent and 8.25 per cent.
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NewsCSU Council Update: Motion to Remove Advocacy Positions Fails
The Concordia Student Union’s council shut down a motion to remove all positions not passed by referendum from the positions book by secret ballot on Wednesday night.
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NewsCSU Cut the Crap Disqualification Overturned by Judicial Board
Concordia Student Union Cut the Crap candidates, who were elected then disqualified in the 2019 general elections, appealed the Chief Electoral Officer’s decision. In Tuesday’s ruling, the Judicial Board announced that all members of the slate, with the exception of Danielle Vandolder-Beaudin, were reinstated.
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NewsMay Day Protests Target Migrant Detention Centre Architects
Anti-capitalist protesters threw vandalized the head office of Lemay, the architectural firm building a migrant detention centre, at the annual May Day protest on Wednesday.
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NewsCSU and ASFA Adopt Position Against Bill 21
Student associations take up positions against proposed “discriminatory” bill.
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NewsMcGill University Retires Redmen Name After Students Decry Racist Connotations
On Friday morning, McGill University’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier announced that the name is being retired immediately.
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NewsThousands Denounce Secularism Bill as Xenophobic
Thousands of people took to the streets this Sunday to protest the CAQ government’s proposed secularism bill.
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NewsCut the Crap Slate Disqualified After Being Voted in
The Concordia Student Unions’ incoming executive team were caught campaigning during polling period during the 2019 general elections. The Chief Electoral Officer announced Friday afternoon that Cut The Crap’s entire slate have been disqualified.
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OpinionsQuebec’s Student Movements: A History
Protesters were met with strong police retaliation, and even tourists and children were effected by the pepper sprayed while exiting restaurants on Ste. Catherine. St.
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NewsMeet CSU Slate New Community
New Community wants to create a solidarity economy incubator, a greenhouse for Loyola campus, a more affordable health plan with added mental health benefits, and a “revitalized social community.”
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NewsStudent Denounces ‘Illegal Arrest’ During Anti-Police Brutality March
March 15 started off as a normal Friday for Concordia engineering student Dominique Rémy. Little did he know that evening he would be headbutted, tackled, and arrested outside of his school without explanation following this year’s anti-police brutality protest.
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NewsMarch Against Racism Calls Out CAQ’s Hijab Ban
In solidarity with anti-racist and anti-fascist movements of the city, the demonstration addressed the growing concern for oppressed minorities being discriminated against and the rise of the nationalist populism that fuels it.
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NewsSolidarity Economy Incubator Effectively Shut Down
After the Concordia Student Union council shut down the inclusion of a referendum question on creating a solidarity economy incubator in the regular elections last month, the motion was brought back to the table for reconsideration–and shut down–at a council meeting March 13.
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NewsPolice Brutality March Ends in Two Arrests, ‘No Injuries’
Pedestrians were urged to evacuate Sherbrooke St. as protesters smashed car windows, rolled dumpster fires down the street, and set off fireworks at the height of the 23rd annual anti-police brutality march.
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NewsCSU Internal Coordinator Resigns Amid ‘Toxic’ Work Environment
The Concordia Student Union’s Internal Coordinator Princess Somefun resigned at a council meeting Wednesday night due to a toxic environment.
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NewsBike Couriers ‘Fired’ After Snow Storm
After a heavy snowfall on Feb. 13, every bike messenger at QA Courier, a group of five workers, were allegedly fired.
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NewsBrossard Family in Racial Profiling Case Urge for Changes in Policy
Five years after Dominique Jacobs’ sons were brutally arrested by police officers, the Quebec Human Rights Commission came to a decision, calling it racial profiling.
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NewsTenants Rights Groups Demand Reforms to Rental Board
Philomène Césaire found an apartment in her price range in Parc-Extension. However, the city required her to leave in winter 2015 because her landlord’s neglect of the property made it unsafe.
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NewsIndependent Jewish Voices Concordia Releases Letter Condemning CSU Councillor
Independent Jewish Voices Concordia, a Jewish organization supporting Palestine, released an open letter, signed off by Hillel Concordia on Wednesday condemning Concordia Student Union councillor James Hanna for quoting a Youtuber many on campus describe as a neo-nazi.
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NewsPrivacy Breached in Mandatory CSU Consent Training
On Oct. 25 Concordia Student Union councillor James Hanna published a recording of an altercation between himself and Internal Affairs Coordinator Princess Somefun, which took place during mandatory consent training.
