Jonathan Summers
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LettersOpen Letter: Charges Against Students are an Embarrassment to Concordia, Must be Dropped Immediately
A graduate student is charged with violating the Code of Rights and Responsibilities at an April 1 picket—even though he wasn’t there.
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OpinionsThe Graduate Students’ Association Becomes a Circus
The Graduate Students’ Association has enormous potential to unite students around common struggles and to represent their remarkable diversity.
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OpinionsWhy We Sadly Shouldn’t March with Municipal Workers on Sept. 20
Should we support strikers who oppressed us when we were striking?
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NewsEducation Department Approves Move to Faubourg
Concordia’s education department has voted “by a clear majority” to accept the university’s proposal to move the department to the fifth and sixth floors of the Faubourg Ste-Catherine shopping mall, according to education department chair Richard Schmid.
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NewsConcordia’s Exam Invigilators Want Better Working Conditions
As the semester winds down and students start thinking about their final exams, the people hired to supervise those exams want you to know that their job is no piece of cake either.
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NewsIf the Webster Library Grows, the Education Department Has to Go
Concordia’s education department might have to leave the LB Building—and some members of the department are concerned about the space proposed for their relocation…
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NewsGSA Elects New Vice-Presidents
Nine months after creating the positions, the Graduate Students’ Association finally filled the posts of VP Academic and Advocacy and VP Mobilization at a general assembly on Thursday.
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NewsNot Another Brick in the Wall
Seven years after being fired by McGill, Professor Norman Cornett returned to the university…
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Special IssueBienvenue à la classe d’accueil
Picture a class of children each from a different corner of the globe. Some have been in the country for a few weeks, others several months. There may be two or three from one country or another but only one speaks Spanish, one Arabic, one Ewondo…
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Deconstructing the Supposed Need For Austerity
The belt-tightening ideology of austerity invoked by governments around the world to slash budgets “is more about politics than economics,” according to economist Jim Stanford, who was the guest of the Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia union on Nov. 19.
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OpinionsHypocrisy, Not Integrity
On Nov. 11, Concordia’s Centre for Sustainable Enterprise welcomed Harvard professor Michael C. Jensen, and it looked like I had found one of a rare breed of moneymen who might not be part of the problem, but part of the solution.
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NewsGSA Holds First General Assembly of 2013-2014
Concordia’s Graduate Students’ Association had money on its mind in its first general assembly of the school year last Friday—and apparently for too long.
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NewsCSU Co-Hosts Plateau Candidates’ Debate
Candidates in the Plateau-Mont-Royal for the four major parties running in the Nov. 3 municipal election went head-to-head Thursday evening in a debate in front of about 80 students in the Hall Building’s D.B. Clarke Theatre.
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NewsConcordia Alum Running for Borough Mayor in Sud-Ouest
“What we need as a community of Montrealers is an administration that we can recognize ourselves in and that we can trust.”
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NewsConcordia Student to Lead Quebec Green Party
Concordia student Alex Tyrrell is the province’s newest party leader after being elected head of the Green Party of Quebec on Sept. 21. Tyrrell, who is currently pursuing a degree in environmental science, is also by far the youngest party leader in Quebec at age 25.
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NewsSustainable Concordia Grows With Fee Levy Funds
With triple the funding it had last year, Sustainable Concordia held a general meeting to approve a new budget of over $112,000 for the coming academic year.
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NewsSasha Dyck Seeking Election to City Council in Park Ex
Two years ago, Sasha Dyck got together with a group of neighbours to create Café…
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NewsEat Your Way Through the City on the Cheap
Whether you’re looking for a cheap and healthy meal downtown or a place to find fresh, organic produce in NDG, Joëlle Rondeau and Lucia Wong can help.
