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NewsConcordia International Students Have Most Expensive Healthcare Plan in Country
In March 2019, a referendum was passed with students voting overwhelmingly in favour of mandating the CSU to take on the responsibility of managing the health care plan for international students.
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NewsIt Takes All of Us Online Consent Training Faces Backlash
Many feel that a lack of systematic change overrides the university’s attempt at a training.
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NewsConcordia Student Union Launches Sustainability Campaign
The Concordia Student Union kicked off its new sustainability campaign at orientation week, which began on Sept. 3. Throughout orientation week, the CSU stuck to the theme of sustainability, hosting a zero waste community fair featuring organizations from across campus.
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NewsConcordia to Vote on Tuition Hikes for Deregulated International Students
Supporting documents for an upcoming Concordia Board of Governors meeting, leaked to the Concordia Student Union Friday afternoon, revealed that tuition increases for international students will likely be put to a vote on May 28.
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NewsASFA Updates: Online Voting Changes, Member Association Allowances on the Table
The Arts and Science Federation of Associations have passed a motion to use SimplyVoting, a third-party platform, to host all future online elections.
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NewsConcordia Launches Action Plan to Indigenize and Decolonize University
Concordia’s Indigenous Directions Leadership Group has just launched a 39 point action plan created in part as a response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls to action.
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CSU Election Results: Cut the Crap Disqualified, Runners Up Elected
The Concordia Student Union’s Chief Electoral Officer Florian Prual has announced the updated election results.
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SportsThe (Insanely Busy) Life of Student Athlete Noah Domingue
We often see Stingers athletes working on the field, but how often do we see or hear about them working in the classroom? Or at their day-job? The life of a student athlete is a busy one, often punctuated by long days and tight schedules.
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NewsCSU Slate RiZe Advocating Against Campus Sexual Violence
Continuing campaigns against campus sexual violence, supporting student strikes, and expanding mental health services are only some of the promises on riZe’s to-do list.
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SportsCalgary 5, Montreal 2: Les Canadiennes Fall to Inferno in Clarkson Cup Final
After beating out the Markham Thunder in game three of the Clarkson Cup semi final to win the series, Les Canadiennes headed out to Toronto to take on the Calgary Inferno at Coca-Cola Coliseum for the Clarkson Cup final on Sunday afternoon.
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Fringe ArtsLe Frigo Vert Workshops: Kombucha Edition
Learn how to make kombucha with help from the Link‘s sports online editor Ireland Compton in a couple of easy steps.
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Fringe ArtsSmitten With Kittens: Appreciating Cats and Art in Montreal
Learn about spaces in Montreal that are devoted to appreciating the feline form: Café Chato and NDG’s Alley Cat Gallery.
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SportsThe Montreal Shamrocks Are Giving the City Gaelic Sports
Quebec and Montreal have a rich Irish background, with Montreal’s Irish population making up about six per cent of the city’s total population. With such a high number of people with Irish heritage, the culture is definitely alive and well in Montreal.
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SportsCanadiennes 2, Thunder 1: Montreal Pulls Off a Win in Annual Charity Game
Fans gathered at Place Bell on Saturday night to see Les Canadiennes take on the Markham Thunder for the ninth annual Pink in the Rink fundraiser game.
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SportsCanadian Elite Basketball League Joins Forces With U SPORTS
U SPORTS announced on Twitter and through a press release Tuesday morning that it will be partnering with the Canadian Elite Basketball League, a new professional men’s basketball league expected to begin play in spring 2019.
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SportsThompson Brothers Share Their Journey at First Voices Week
Brothers Jeremy, Jerome, Miles, and Lyle Thompson from the Onondaga Iroquois Nation in upstate New York were quite literally born with lacrosse sticks in their hands, receiving traditional wooden sticks at birth.
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NewsCSU’s Tuition Hike Town Hall Encourages Student Diplomacy
Last Thursday, the Concordia Student Union hosted a Tuition Hike Town Hall, encouraging students to mobilize against higher tuition costs.
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SportsThe International Athletes of the Stingers
“Hockey where I lived i s really not big at all. I really wanted to play at a normal level and back home I had to play with guys, and I really wanted to play with girls again,” said Bieke van Nes, one of Concordia’s newest women’s hockey players and one of only two players from outside of Canada on the team.
