Michael Wrobel
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Engineering TAs Raise Concerns Over Pay
As Concordia tries to turn the page on last year’s tense labour climate, teaching assistants in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science are raising concerns about reductions in the number of hours they’re paid to work, even as their workloads allegedly remain the same.
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Space Concordia Reaches $15,000 Fundraising Goal
After surpassing their fundraising goal of $15,000 on Saturday, the team of students looking to build a satellite to test self-healing material in space—and see if it is capable of repairing damage caused by mechanical wear in such conditions—will now be able to start buying components for the project.
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The Future of Research in Universities
The university researchers of tomorrow will contemplate the world in a…
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Still Plenty of Reasons to Take Back the Night
The roughly 100 participants of the Take Back the Night march on Friday had a success story to celebrate this year.
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ASFA Byelection Results
With the ballots cast and tallied, only two per cent of the roughly 18,000 Arts and Science undergraduates voted in last week’s faculty byelection.
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Buying, Selling and a Whole Lot of Shouting at JMSB
The John Molson School of Business building’s lobby had all the makings of a real-life stock exchange on Saturday.
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CSU Wants Reduced STM Fare Passes for All Full-Time Students
Mature students are students too. And the Concordia Student Union says it’s time they’re treated as such.
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How Concordia Candidates Fared in the Municipal Election
The Nov. 3 municipal elections saw multiple candidates with Concordia ties running to represent the city—but only one was left standing at the end of the day.
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Marcel Côté on Making Montreal a ‘University City,’ Improving Public Transit
Montreal mayoral candidate Marcel Côté is experienced in management, but a political neophyte.
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Mayoral Candidate Denis Coderre on Making Montreal A ‘Smart’ City
Denis Coderre started his political career as a three-time loser. He fell short in three elections before finally being voted into office as a Member of Parliament for the Bourassa riding in 1997.
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A Look at Mélanie Joly’s Team in Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Montreal mayoral candidate Mélanie Joly has managed to rally an eclectic mix of candidates behind her ahead of the Nov. 3 municipal election.
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Mayoral Debate Held at Concordia
Montreal mayoral candidates Richard Bergeron, Denis Coderre, Marcel Côté and Mélanie Joly took to the stage of Concordia University’s…
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Vigil Draws Attention to those Killed by Police
A fourth annual commemorative vigil to remember individuals killed by police officers will be held in Montreal on Oct. 22.
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Richard Bergeron on Public Transit, Housing and Life in the Suburbs
Integrity. Competence. Audacity. Of all the words that can be used to describe one’s character, these are the three words chosen by political party Projet Montréal to define their platform, their leader Richard Bergeron and their slate of 103 candidates running in the Nov. 3 municipal election.
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A Fee Levy Referendum Question for the Concordia Food Coalition
At a special council meeting on Oct. 16, the Concordia Student Union voted in favour of allowing the Concordia Food Coalition to have a fee-levy referendum question on the ballot in the upcoming CSU by-elections.
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Marie-Eve Brunet on Youth and Development
Marie-Eve Brunet, one of the younger candidates seeking election in Montreal’s upcoming municipal election, says culture and the place of young Montrealers in the community are key campaign issues in the Verdun borough she’s running in.
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What Would Montreal Look Like in 2023?
Ten candidates in the race to become Montreal’s next mayor, including the four frontrunners, outlined their visions for the city over the next decade in seven-minute speeches at Megaphone Montreal on Friday.
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Concordia, Meet Mélanie Joly
The City of Montreal has seen its fair share of controversy and scandal in the past two years, perhaps none greater than the resignation of former mayor Gérald Tremblay and the arrest of his replacement, interim mayor…
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Mobilizing the Youth Vote
Ahead of the Nov. 3 municipal elections taking place throughout Quebec, the province’s regional youth forums, which are funded under the provincial government’s Youth Action Strategy, held events in multiple cities on Oct. 5 to try to mobilize younger voters.