Jon Milton
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Special IssueMontreal’s Gentrification, Neighbourhood by Neighbourhood
Many of Montreal’s neighbourhoods are gentrifying. Some areas are far along in the process, and others are just beginning to accelerate.
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Special IssueWhat is Fascism, Anyway?
Scholars Mark Bray and Alexander Reid Ross help to define the ideology behind fascism.
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OpinionsWhy are Concordia Departments Spreading Fraser Institute Events?
It’s seriously problematic for departments at a university to be sharing information with students about an event being held by the Fraser Institute—especially if the departments didn’t even bother clarifying that the Fraser Institute is a corporate disinformation tool.
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OpinionsSome Thoughts on Prison Abolition
Today, the prison system in Canada is about more than just cops, walls, and razor wire. It is a network of interlocking institutions that profit from locking people in cages.
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NewsMontreal Students Hold One-Day Strike on International Interns’ Day
The movement against unpaid internships took on a new set of tactics Friday, as students and interns in Montreal staged a one-day strike demanding remuneration for all internships in the province. Striking students and their supporters staged a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Labour.
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NewsConcordia Teaching Unions Say No to Enforcing Bill 62
Professors’ unions at Concordia say they aren’t enforcing Bill 62, the provincial law which bans people wearing face coverings from receiving public services.
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OpinionsThere’s No Such Thing as Green Fascism
The struggle against climate change must be intersectional to address the magnitude of the problems we face.
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Special IssueLabour Organizing for Tomorrow
This generation is a generation of crisis, and at the individual level, these intersecting crises manifest themselves through a force that everyone must interact with: work.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Anarchist Film Festival Kicks Off
If you ask Chris Robe, he’ll tell you that there’s been a strong anarchist tendency in video-making since the late 1960s.
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Fringe ArtsNorman Nawrocki Explores Migrant Justice Through His New Album
Nawrocki is a poet and an author, having released 14 books in the past 30 years. He’s also a spoken-word artist and a violinist, and he and his bands have released 55 albums over the same period of time. In between putting out a constant stream of new art, Nawrocki also finds the time to teach a class at Concordia’s School of Community and Public Affairs.
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OpinionsAfter Quebec City, Make Racists Afraid Again
This is not a game, it’s not some theoretical argument about free speech.
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OpinionsReclaiming Our History on Canada’s 150th
2017 presents us with a unique opportunity to reclaim our history, to learn from it, and to use those lessons to build a better future.
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NewsQuebec’s Student Movement Fights Against Student Poverty
Students in Quebec today face a series of micro-economic crises that, together, create widespread student poverty and precarity.
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News
Protesters Block Train Tracks in Solidarity with Standing Rock
Around a dozen people shut down the train tracks in Pointe-St-Charles on Tuesday, as a motion of solidarity with the Indigenous-led struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Approximately 50 more protesters listened to speeches in nearby Parc de la Congregation as the rails were blocked.
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NewsHundreds Protest in Montreal in Solidarity With Standing Rock
Behind a row of Indigenous drummers and throat singers, around 700 people protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Montreal on Monday afternoon. They had gathered to show solidarity with the Indigenous-led struggle.
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NewsAnti-Gentrification Groups Push For Community-Centred Spaces
In the 1970’s, the Lachine Canal closed, and the factories began to close with it. This created the context for the gentrification that is shaking the area today. The high-rise condos that tower over Griffintown, the expensive cafes that line Notre-Dame St., and the changing demographic of the borough are all bearing its symptoms.
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NewsDivest McGill Confronts University in Forum
This was the first of three public consultations on sustainability held by McGill University last Friday. The consultations come as a direct result of a sit-in carried out by Divest McGill in the James Administration building last spring.
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NewsCaribou Legs Runs for the Missing
Caribou Legs has spent the last few months running across Canada to honour and raise awareness about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Having begun in Vancouver in May, he stopped in Montreal on Friday, Sept. 9 for a conference at Concordia.
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Opinions
Oil, Gas & Social Movements in Gaspésie
It’s Gaspésie, where you can still drink water directly from most rivers, that oil and gas companies have painted a target.
