Julian Ward
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NewsAnarchy in the Streets
Rocks were thrown. Windows were smashed. Flash-bang grenades were launched. And the age-old battle of police versus protesters continued on March 15, as the annual Anti-Police Brutality March ended as it so often does: in mass arrests.
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NewsA Predictably Violent Anti-Brutality Protest
Approximately 1,200 protesters marched through downtown Montreal for the annual Anti-Police-Brutality protest, which, as usual, erupted into violence shortly after starting.
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OpinionsWhat Are Your Rights During a Strike?
So, you’re on strike. Do you know what your rights are? The Link sat down with Student Advocacy Centre representative Andy Filipowich to find out about your rights during a strike.
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NewsConU Continues In Face of Striking Students
Concordia’s administration has taken an official position to continue to provide services as normal in the face of a massive student strike, which as of March 15 will technically include all Concordia students.
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NewsUQAM Students Occupy School and Street
Students at L’Université du Québec à Montréal spent March 12 partying and peacefully occupying a campus building and the street outside after their administration locked down a number of other campus buildings.
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NewsThis Week in Protests
March 7 and 8 were busy days for protesters, as the causes of tuition, police brutality, and women’s rights were all represented in four different events within 24 hours.
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NewsRiot Cops End Student Vigil
A student vigil was violently broken up by riot cops near Berri-UQAM the night of March 7.
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NewsStudent Tuition Protest Ends in Violence
A large impromptu student protest against tuition hikes moved through Montreal’s busy downtown streets March 8.
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NewsCSU & GSA to Vote on Strike
Months of protests, information sessions, Facebook arguments and efforts at mobilizing tens of thousands of students will come to a head this week as the Concordia Student Union and the Graduate Students’ Association will both decide on whether or not to strike.
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NewsStudents Occupy Atrium of Webster Library
Students have set up camp in the atrium of the Webster library for the week of Feb. 27 to rally the troops in the lead up to a potential strike at the end of March.
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Special IssueRub-a-Dub-Dub We Studs in a Tub
Tall, athletic, handsome, an easy fit for the ‘jock’ label when it comes to gay subcategories, 21-year-old Concordia student “Connor” visits Sauna Oasis in the gay village every couple of weeks with his boyfriend, also a university student.
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Special IssueTo Grindr / Not to Grindr
People have long dreamt of having a better, more technological means of picking up than awkwardly approaching someone in a bar.
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Special IssueWhat’s to Come
You might have been shocked by our cover.
You might have also asked yourself, is this how The Link actually sees queer identity?
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NewsHighlights From The Feb. 8 CSU Council Meeting
The Simone de Beauvoir Institute is set to vote on Feb. 29 to go on strike against the impending tuition increases. The SDBI is the first department association at Concordia to rally enough support in their department against fee-hikes to actually set a strike-vote day. During the meeting, all sexuality studies or gender studies students working to attain a certificate, a major or a minor from the institute were encouraged to vote on Feb. 29.
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NewsBigger Is Better?
Yelling, “Fuck the police!,” and, “Don’t fuck with our education!,” a group of radical anti-tuition protesters made their way through Montreal’s downtown campuses on Feb. 2.
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NewsConU Board Under the Microscope
In the wake of Concordia’s Board of Governors’ refusal to broadcast its own meetings, student-governor A.J. West decided to take matters into his own hands—quite literally.
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OpinionsGag Order
The student-led movement against tuition hikes in Quebec is set to take a turn that is both hypocritical and quasi-fascist.
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NewsHIV+ First Nations Peoples Encouraged to Tell Their Story
Members of the Aboriginal community living with HIV and AIDS need to speak up and share their stories in order to gain strength and persevere, was the message delivered to Concordia students last week.
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Tenants Go Fish at the Rental Board
Angry tenants went fishing today at the Régie de logement office in Montreal in hopes of catching a break from the province.
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NewsHighlights from the CSU Council Meeting
A petition and website launched by Tomer Shavit in an effort to impeach Concordia Student Union President Lex Gill was dismissed out of hand by councillors and executives as “unnecessary and a waste of time.”
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