Joshua De Costa
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NewsMontreal Food Banks: While Some Struggle, Others Strive
Food banks need donations. It’s not news, but an ever-pressing fact.
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NewsHundreds Come to Celebrate NDG Food Depot’s 30th Anniversary
Volunteers carried crates of bread and potatoes, helping to arrange food baskets for the hundreds of visitors expected to come to the NDG Food Depot’s 30th Anniversary celebration yesterday, Nov. 29.
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NewsGlobal Warming: This Generation’s Grinch
Topsy-turvy Temperatures Could Turn Outdoor Skating Rinks Into Swimming Pools
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Police Spying on Journalists Risks Crippling Fourth Estate
“Journalists are able to tell the public the truth about what happens because they have sources that trust them,” said Caroline Locher.
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NewsConcordia Conference Urges Transition Away From Oil and Gas
Freda Huson’s keynote presentation on Saturday headlined Sustainable Concordia’s Transitions Conference, an array of presentations advocating society’s transition away from industrial energy.
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NewsStrikers Picket Edward Snowden Lecture At McGill
Wednesday’s rally marked the fifth and final day of scheduled strikes organised by AMUSE in its push towards a new and improved collective agreement for McGill’s temporary workers.
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NewsProtesters March Notre-Dame Street to Push Back Against Gentrification
Tailed by a fleet of police cars, around 40 people marched along Notre-Dame St. on the afternoon of Oct. 29 protesting the gentrification sweeping Saint-Henri, and demanding a vacant building to repurpose into an autonomous space for the neighbourhood.
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NewsNew CSU Club Increases Indigenous Presence on Campus
A new CSU club, the Indigenous Students Council, is making its presence felt at Concordia by giving voice to disenfranchised Indigenous students and calling for real results, not boardroom objectives.
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NewsSeventh Annual Vigil for Victims of Police Killings Continues
Grey skies and freezing rain on Oct. 22 didn’t deter Bridget Tolley from attending a vigil to commemorate the death of her mother 15 years ago.
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NewsArts and Sciences Colloquium Matches and Makes, Mixes and Creates
The “Blood, Brains and Other Trains” colloquium, held at Concordia from Oct. 19 to 22, helps Arts and Science Faculty members meet and mingle while Flemming played matchmaker.
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Fringe Arts
Yukonstyle Puts Spotlight on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
A globally renowned play is making its first English appearance in Montreal, highlighting the persisting trauma of residential schools on Indigenous communities through the use of stereotypes.
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NewsPanel Highlights Same System, Different Struggles
This search for acceptance, and resistance to swallow rejection are inherently associated with being mistreated, according to Catherine Richardson, an associate professor at Université de Montreal, as part of her panel presentation.
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NewsCoinciding Food Weeks Make Sustainable Options Accessible
Organized by two different Concordia organizations, both week-long events were planned to run on the same week from Sept. 26 to 30—purely out of coincidence—yet both have the same aim: to make students smarter with their food.
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NewsTalking Solar Energy at the Concordia Greenhouse
How about “Solar Energy on a Small Scale?” That was the title of Gregory Lynch’s workshop on Thursday night at the Concordia Greenhouse in the Hall building downtown, where he showed attendees how they could build their own small systems and power their own devices.
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NewsMohamed Fahmy Uses Newfound Freedom to Free Others
In 2013, the former Al Jazeera English Bureau Chief became a target himself when he was accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and detained for 438 days in Egypt’s Tora Prison.
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NewsYesterday’s Socialism, Today’s Sexy
The night’s lesson: Marxist theory. Tomorrow’s test: conquer capitalism.
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NewsMcGill’s 15th Annual Pow Wow Pushes Powerful Message
“When we dance, we pray,” said 61-year-old Sedalia Kawennotas, an Elder Woman from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. “Each and every step of these dancers is a prayer for North Dakota. It’s a prayer for our Sioux brothers and sisters—that their waters are safe, that the pipeline doesn’t go through.”
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Fringe Arts#MTLTATTOO
While social media has continued to make people increasingly at ease with tattoos by virtually inviting them into shops, it has also made it easier for people to steal artists’ work.
