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NewsFor a Safe, Sub-Zero Commute
You know you’re Canadian when the temperature is at -20 degrees Celsius, it’s snowing, and you’re still biking to class.
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NewsTake Shelter
According to Concordia religion professor Lorenzo DiTommaso, people need to wake up and face the reality that the apocalypse isn’t coming.
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NewsA Peace Best Served Cold
After the revolution in Egypt last year, many questions have arisen around the position of Egypt’s international relations, including the peace treaty with Israel. To answer these questions, both the Israeli and Egyptian Consul Generals spoke at Concordia on March 14.
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NewsCharest Brings Unwanted Guests to Google Press Conference
Hundreds of students surrounded Google’s new Montreal headquarters, which were being unveiled at a press conference with Premier Jean Charest on March 20.
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NewsThis Week in Protests
March 7 and 8 were busy days for protesters, as the causes of tuition, police brutality, and women’s rights were all represented in four different events within 24 hours.
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NewsThe Future of Fraud Enforcement
On March 11, thousands of Canadian voters gathered in major cities across the country to protest the robocalls election scandal.
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NewsRise of the Machines
Furious over the Conservative government’s “robocall scandal,” around 200 protesters marched through downtown Montreal carrying signs reading “Dude, where’s my polling station?” and “We want Robocop,” to draw attention to what they see as an assault on democracy.
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NewsStudents Join International Women’s Day March
A March 8 International Women’s Day demonstration collided with several other protests all taking place in downtown Montreal today.
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NewsIsrael Apartheid Week, Inside Israel Speaker Series Kicks Off
Concordia will be hosting two very different views on the Middle East in coming weeks, as eighth annual Israel Apartheid Week kicks off on March 5, followed by the inaugural Inside Israel Speaker Series.
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OpinionsHeard in the Hall
The Link went to the Concordia Student Union sleep-in in the Webster Library and asked: Do you think that a sleep-in is an effective form of protest?
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NewsMillion Dollar Baby
If you were an employee of Concordia University who left between September 2009 and December 2010, parting may have been a sweet sorrow.
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NewsHacker Heaven
Health care professionals and technology experts spent last weekend designing solutions to problems plaguing the medical community.
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NewsSafety First?
The proposal to turn non-profit outreach centre Cactus Montreal into a supervised injection site has come under public scrutiny from both the City of Montreal and the Ville-Marie community.
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NewsGill vs. Graham
A proposed strike against tuition hikes by the Concordia Student Union is being met with unbending resilience from the Concordia administration.
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Special IssueReforestation: The Myth of Sustainability
Many people assume, or maybe just want to believe, that after an area of forest is clear-cut, a crew of tree-planters goes in and replants all of the trees. After a few decades, the trees will be well on their way to adulthood and life in the forest will return to normal. By this definition, it’s a sustainable practice. But that’s not exactly how it works.
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NewsNDP Debate Lacks Sparks
One thing was immediately clear at the federal National Democratic Party candidates debate at Concordia last week: New Democrats agree with each other on almost everything.
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NewsCombined Efforts Benefit Homeless
It wasn’t uncommon a few years ago for a homeless person to be turned away from a shelter due to over-crowding, even in the dead of winter.
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NewsEducation Under Fire in Iran
Systematic discrimination, violence and the denial of basic civil rights in Iran is actively been countered by education, and the discussion came to Concordia University on Jan. 19.
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NewsASFA Tries for Middle Ground
Newly appointed Chief Electoral Officer Christopher Webster is determined to make sure “it’s a fair election, that everyone feels safe, that it’s clean, etc.,” said Webster.
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NewsMUNACA Ends Three-Month-Long Walk-Out
After almost three months, the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association ended their strike with a ratification vote on a new collective agreement on Dec 5. “I feel relieved because I was able to present this offer to [MUNACA workers],” said union President Kevin Whittaker. “I wanted them to understand the offer. We’ve been here since 9:00 a.m…
