Jonathan Caragay-Cook
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News
Does the Hive Practice What It Preaches?
Ke Xin, an employee at the Hive, still has faith in what the café is trying to do.
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News
CSU Referendum Questions, A Run Down
Voting for the Concordia Student Union general elections will run from March 28 to 30. There are six referendum questions on this year’s ballot. The CSU represents over 35,000 undergraduate students.
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Sports
Finding His Feet On and Off the Court
Jenning Leung feels fortunate for the places he’s been.
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Fringe Arts
One Comic At a Time
“The media was not conveying the right messages about trans bodies—especially for children”
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News
Police Disperse Anti-Police Brutality March in Downtown Montreal
Despite heavy snowfall on Tuesday night that shut down many schools and businesses, approximately 200 protesters gathered at Place Valois deep in Hochelaga.
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News
Concordia Partially Responds to CSU Request for Academic Amnesty
The Concordia Student Union is requesting academic amnesty for students who feel unsafe coming to the university because of the bomb threats made yesterday that targeted Muslim students.
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News
The Future of MIGS Uncertain
Currently, the institute, which is known as MIGS, is up for renewal as a certified research centre at the university. Its previous certification, which began in 2011, ends on May 31. If he chooses so, Bergholz can apply for the renewal of MIGS as a research institute and become its interim director.
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News
CASA Update: Private Messages, Possible Honorarium Changes, and a New Constitution
A motion to read a board member’s private Facebook messages was entertained but failed to pass at a Commerce and Administration Students’ Association Board meeting on Tuesday night.
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News
Concordia Refugee Centre Up and Running
Since becoming operational last summer, the Refugee Centre at Concordia has assisted approximately 100 refugees and immigrants looking to start anew in Montreal.
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Special Issue
An Introduction to the Race Special Issue
Having a space dedicated to exploring the complexities of race, for and by people of colour, is a necessity.
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Opinions
Lack of Transparency At the Board of Governors
The lack of transparency at the Board of Governors is concerning and problematic.
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News
For Departed or Retired Senior Admin, Concordia Paid $1.1 Million Last Year
The payments came in the form of “administrative leave,” which is the one-year period after a senior administrator leaves their position, or severance.
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News
Mobilization Heats Up as Board of Governors Meeting Looms
With no provincial funding for these programs, Concordia administration has been exploring how to fund them. At their meeting next week, the Board of Governors, comprised of university admin, faculty, students, and external community members, will discuss the implementation of cohort pricing. This system guarantees a flat rate for international students in deregulated programs for the duration of their studies.
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News
Concordia University Admin Visits Middle East
Shepard visited four universities in Israel and Jordan as part of Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre’s trade mission to the region from Nov. 13 to Nov. 18. Concordia signed agreements with Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University, Ben-Gurion University and Jordan University of Science and Technology during the trip.
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News
CSU Finance Coordinator Asked to Resign
The Concordia Student Union has asked their Finance Coordinator Adrian Longinotti to resign earlier today, for his “queerphobic and misogynistic” behaviour.
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News
CSU By-Election: Your Guide to the Four Referendum Questions
The Concordia Student Union by-elections run this week from Nov. 15-17. Quorum for the by-election is 450 undergrad students.
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News
Concordia Administration Keeping It Quiet on Rumoured Tuition Hikes
For deregulated programs, Concordia’s Board of Governors has the final say on how much tuition costs. In June, the Board, comprised of university administration, faculty, students, and external community members, voted to raise tuition for these majors by 1.5 per cent to match the increase Quebec put on regulated programs this year. Now, there are rumours that beginning in 2017-18 future international students in deregulated programs will be forced to pay even higher fees.
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Fringe Arts
Concordia to Host South Asian Film Festival This Weekend
The festival is entering its sixth edition this year. Seventeen films from the Asian subcontinent will be screened. Features this weekend come from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Maldives.
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News
UPDATE: Concordia Begins Investigation Into Alleged Racist Conduct by a JMSB Professor
On Friday, Russell Javaheri posted on the Facebook group “CASA-JMSB,” detailing comments professor Roumen Solov made in his Wednesday evening IBUS 492 course called cross-cultural communication and management.