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Jonathan Caragay-Cook
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NewsProtesting P-6 on the Streets and in Court
On April 5, 2013, Rima Athar, Jess Dorrance and Helen Bradley went to a demonstration against Montreal’s controversial bylaw P-6. It lasted 10 minutes.
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NewsLiberal Arts Students Vote to Strike
The Liberal Arts Students (LAS) voted to strike against austerity at a general assembly Tuesday afternoon. The strike will take place from April 1 to April 2.
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NewsPhilosophy Students Vote to Strike, Lead Student Journalist to Delete Recording
The Undergraduate Students of Philosophy Association (SoPhiA) voted for a weeklong strike in protest against austerity Monday night. After a journalist from The Concordian was called out for recording the meeting, the vote passed with 34 for and six against.
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NewsFine Arts Vote to Strike First
The Fine Arts Student Alliance voted to strike in protest against austerity on March 23 and April 2 at a general assembly Thursday night.
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NewsPoli Sci Students Will Hold Strike Vote in Two Weeks
The Political Science Student Association at Concordia University passed a motion to hold a special assembly for a vote to strike to March 23 on Monday night.
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NewsDemonstrations Against P-6 Turn Violent Inside City Hall
A spontaneous demonstration of citizens outside the Montreal municipal court, celebrating the cancellation of tickets from the controversial P-6 anti-protest bylaw, ended in shouting and physical altercations with police inside city hall on Thursday morning.
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The Roof, the Roof, the Roof is Underwater
A ceiling water leak delayed the opening of the the new advocacy centre in the Hall Building, according to Concordia Student Union VP Academic and Advocacy Terry Wilkings.
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NewsMaking Better Support for Survivors a Matter of Policy
A new committee of administrative staff, faculty and students is conducting an internal review into Concordia’s sexual harassment policy and recommendations for changes may be ready this semester, according to Concordia president Alan Shepard.
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Protests No Longer Postpone Marc Garneau’s Talk
A talk featuring Liberal MP Marc Garneau has been rescheduled for March 20 after it was postponed last month due to possible protests.
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NewsChanges Coming for ASFA
A by-law annex promoting sustainable and equal opportunities for the Arts and Science Federation of Associations has been amended and approved by council last Thursday, but will not be put to a vote at elections.
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NewsBDS: The Aftermath
Concordia Student Union asked the student body to approve the CSU’s support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The referendum question was changed the day before polling after the No side appealed to the Judicial Board. Chief Electoral Officer Andre-Marcel Baril suspended the ballot count a week later while he sought legal consultation.
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News“Decolonization is not an Aboriginal problem, it’s a Canadian one”
Kenneth Deer hasn’t read Bill C-33, the First Nation’s Control of First Education Act. “And I don’t intend to,” he musingly told an audience of approximately 100 people.
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NewsActivist Reveals Hidden Military Ties Between Canada and Israel
“We’re all Palestinians.” These are the words of Jeff Halper, one of 191 Nobel Peace Prize nominees in 2006. Not only a sentiment of solidarity, this statement reflects the effects of Israeli military research on civil liberties in Canada, according to the Israeli academic and peace activist.
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NewsTRAC Off Track
Internal fighting is threatening to derail Concordia’s teaching assistants’ bargaining power with the university.
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NewsBriefs
Concordia admits that one bedbug was found in the library, and francophone magazine L’Organe will be making a comeback.
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Counting Sheep? Don’t Neglect a Routine Sleep Schedule
For Dr. Colleen Carney, too many students are following the trends of greater adulthood by neglecting a routine sleep schedule. Students are prioritizing their own academic success, altering their bodies’ internal clocks. According to Carney, this lack of routine is a main cause for chronic insomnia, which is a disorder closely linked to depression.
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NewsStudents Say Yes to BDS
Referendum results indicated only 7 per cent of Concordia students voted in the by-elections, with the YES ballot succeeding by only a 209-vote margin.
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NewsCSU By-Election Results
Unlike the BDS issue, some referendum questions did receive a count and tally after the Concordia Student Union’s by-election last week. Notably, the referenda for creating new student housing, a daycare centre and the approval for the CSU to pay back the Hive Café Solidarity Cooperative start up loan through a specific fund all passed.
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Will the BDS Ballots Ever Be Counted?
After weeks of campaigning, hundreds of Concordia University students voted on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions referendum question this past week. But the ballots for the controversial question have not been counted and there’s still a chance they never will be.
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BDS Ballots Suspended Indefinitely
The ballots for the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) referendum will not be counted at pollings’ end tonight.
