Jonathan Caragay-Cook
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News
Part-Time Faculty Union Concerned Over Ongoing Negotiations
Five hundred and thirty-six days—and counting. That’s how long the Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association has been without a collective agreement.
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Opinions
A Response to the Montreal Gazette
Seidman takes the angle that Jewish students at McGill University feel The Daily, one of the student newspapers, is thwarting their efforts to speak out about how the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement against Israel makes them uncomfortable. Tensions escalated, she writes, after The Daily published a satirical piece titled, “White tears increase on campus,” which pokes fun at the sensitivity of white people towards confronting their own racial privilege.
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News
Where Concordia Stands on Divesting From Fossil Fuels
Concordia University Foundation has an estimated ten per cent of its investments placed in the fossil fuel industry, which includes oils and pipelines, according to Freedman. This is difficult to know exactly, he said, because there are no detailed breakdowns of their investments.
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Fringe Arts
A Week in Review: The Best of POP Montreal
So we got through POP—trust, it’s easier said than done. Among some of the unlikely things to happen, we managed to scrape by with few instances of drinking on the metro and peeing in alleyways. Here’s the recap on all the crazy shows we went to:
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Fringe Arts
Montreal’s Stop Motion Festival an Animated Success
Animated—that’s the best way to describe Érik Goulet, the founder of Montreal’s Stop Motion Film Festival.
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News
TRAC Negotiates New Pay Grades With Concordia
TRAC executives announced that Concordia agreed to increased, more uniformed pay grades at a general assembly on Wednesday night.
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Special Issue
How to Be a Successfully Integrated Social Media Millennial in Montreal
To be a successful Montrealer, you basically need a Facebook account.
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News
Concordia Launches Voluntary Retirement Program
The new program comes after the “voluntary departure program” was implemented in 2014, when 90 Concordia staff employees—not faculty—took buyouts to leave.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Band Caveboy Plays Debut Osheaga Show
It has been a wild year for the group as they released their first EP—titled _Caveboy_—last October and performed at Montreal’s annual summer music festival, Osheaga, this past weekend.
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News
Concordia University President Alan Shepard to Serve Second Term
“I was very pleased to be reappointed at Concordia,” Shepard said in an interview last Wednesday.
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News
University Bylaws on Student Eligibility Will Not Change, Concordia Senate Decides
Two proposals—one by the university and the other by students—were raised to resolve a contentious university bylaw that prevents students from serving on Senate, the Board of Governors, and other Concordia bodies if they’ve been sanctioned under the school’s Code of Rights and Responsibilities within the past three years.
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News
The Right to Serve
If Terry Wilkings wins the race for the Arts and Science Faculty seat on Concordia’s Senate body, he will be ineligible to serve. He hasn’t won yet though—there was a tie.
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News
CSU Finance Coordinator Resigns
Anas Bouslikhane, the finance coordinator, submitted a letter to the union’s council, explaining the sudden departure.
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News
CSU Elections 2016: Referendum Questions Breakdown
Concordia Student Union general elections begin on March 29 and run until March 31. There are five referendum questions on the ballot that could affect the fees you pay and whether you oppose the construction of a pipeline.
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News
A Broken Homestay
A Concordia international student will be filing a violation this week to Quebec’s Human Rights Commission for discrimination based on ethnic origin and language.
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News
Concordia Announce Departure of Senior Administrator to McGill
Brad Tucker, the university’s registrar, has taken a position at McGill after working at Concordia for 15 years.
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News
Money Officially Transferred to Student Housing Fund
The Concordia Student Union has officially transferred $1.85 million into the Popular University Student Housing fund with the goal of creating an affordable student housing cooperative for Concordia undergraduate students.
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News
Nominees Announced for CSU Elections
There are two teams running for the executive positions: “Act Together” and “Empower Concordia.”
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News
CSU Wants Concordia to Change Bylaw, May Take Legal Action
The Concordia Student Union is challenging a university bylaw that could prevent students reprimanded for striking from sitting on Concordia’s most important decision-making bodies.