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NewsTalking with CSU President Benjamin Prunty
Keeping tabs on which promises the Concordia Student Union is fulfilling.
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NewsCanadian Federation of Students Loses in Court to Former Provincial Wing
The fourth chapter in the lengthy and ongoing legal battle between Quebec student associations and the Canadian Federation of Students has come to an end.
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NewsKettling, Enforcement of Bylaw P-6 Prove Controversial
Protesters feeling wronged by allegedly heavy-handed police responses during six demonstrations held between June 2012 and March of this year will soon have their day in court.
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NewsAnatomy of a Grassroots Campaign
Provincial politics in Quebec is seemingly seeing a resurgence of interest among youth. As was the case in 2012, a year characterized by months of student protests, quite a few young Quebecers threw their hats into the ring in Monday’s provincial election.
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NewsASSÉ-led Protest Demands a “More Egalitarian” Budget
A protest organized by the most militant of Quebec’s student federations, the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante, drew thousands of demonstrators into the streets of downtown Montreal on Thursday to denounce budget cuts to various government programs.
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NewsThe Ideological Divide on University Governance
Another divide has emerged between Quebec’s political parties. In the provincial campaign’s final stretch, politicians disagree on whether…
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NewsQuebec’s Political Parties on Tuition Fees and University Funding
A lot has changed in terms of higher education since the last provincial election in 2012, which followed an extended period of student protests against the then-Liberal government’s proposed tuition hikes.
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NewsFEUQ and FECQ Try to Get Out the Youth Vote
Two of the student federations representing Quebec university and CEGEP students have put forward a list of demands ahead of the provincial elections taking place April 7.
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Student Associations Seeking to Sever Ties with the CFS Suggest Changes to Provincial Law
Several student associations in Quebec want to leave the Canadian Federation of Students—and they’re no longer satisfied with waiting for court dates in their quest to do so.
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NewsFour Quebec Politicians Disagree on Energy Policy at Concordia Debate
The night before a provincial election was called, a Concordia debate between four politicians about Quebec’s energy policies revealed deep divides in what types of policies they consider realistic.
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NewsCSU Electoral Officer Warns Pre-Campaigning Will Hurt More Than Help
Ahead of the upcoming Concordia Student Union general elections, which will include a vote on contentious fee-levy reforms, the CSU’s chief electoral officer is implementing new ways to deal with violations of election regulations.
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NewsDivided Along Faculty Lines?
Just as taxes are a source of tension outside university, fee levies are proving to be a politically divisive issue on campus.
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NewsASSÉ Against the Charter of Values
Months after Montreal’s four universities publicly voiced their opposition to the Charter of Quebec Values, the most militant of Quebec’s student federations—ASSÉ—has now decided its official position on the proposed legislation.
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Special IssueWelcome to the Sprawl
For Lissa Marcotte, there’s truth in the marketing slogan “La vie est belle à Mirabel.” In this suburban municipality on the northern periphery of the Montreal metropolitan region, where suburban comfort meets the tranquility of farm country, life is good—but it comes with an environmental cost.
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NewsThe Right to Self-Determination and the Charter of Values
Quebec feminists and other progressive forces are currently confronted with an “important philosophical dilemma” in the debate surrounding the wearing of religious symbols, says self-described Muslim feminist and social justice activist Leila Bdeir.
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NewsTaking Concordia’s Anti-Charter Stance to the National Assembly
The outside temperature may have been hovering around a frigid minus-20 degrees…
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NewsWebster, Meet Digital Culture
Guylaine Beaudry, the chief administrator for Concordia’s two libraries, says the Webster Library is stuck in the past—but upcoming renovations aim to bring it into the digital age.
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NewsDisplaced & Transformed: The Condo Effect on Montreal
“Gentrification” has become a buzzword in working-class-turned-hip neighbourhoods across Montreal…
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NewsLoyola’s Hive Café Delayed Until Next Year
Despite promises during the Concordia Student Union elections in March 2013 that the long-awaited Hive Café would already be up and running by now, students will have to wait until the next academic year to see a student-run café open its doors on the Loyola campus.
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NewsConcordia Briefs
Went somewhere for the holidays? The Link made sure to get the story while you were out.
