Miriam Lafontaine
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News
Demolition of CSU Daycare Site to Cost More Than Initially Planned
The construction of the Concordia Student Union’s daycare for students and faculty has been approved, but a special council meeting on Wednesday revealed its demolition will cost more than initially planned.
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Special Issue
Is Our Penal System Lacking?
University of the Streets Café is part of the Office of Community Engagement at Concordia. They’ve been hosting weekly events all fall at cafes around Montreal and getting citizens from all walks of life to sit down and share perspectives on various topics of interest in casual, informal settings.
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News
CSU Recap: Council Goes Into Closed Session to Discuss Finance Coordinator Resignation
The Concordia Student Union council meeting on Nov. 23 went into a closed session and the media was asked to leave for almost two hours to discuss the events that had led to the resignation of the previous finance coordinator Andrian Longinotti, according to the CSU General Coordinator, Lucinda Marshall-Kiparissis.
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News
CSU Hosts Town Hall to Denounce International Tuition Hikes
The Concordia Student Union is taking a stance against the university’s rumoured tuition hikes for international students in deregulated programs—which includes engineering, computer science, business, pure sciences, and mathematics—and they want more students to mobilize with them against it.
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News
CSU By-Election: Your Guide to the Four Referendum Questions
The Concordia Student Union by-elections run this week from Nov. 15-17. Quorum for the by-election is 450 undergrad students.
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News
Public Panel on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Held in Montreal
The United Nations Association of Canada organized a public panel to discuss a set of Sustainable Development Goals and how Canada can help accomplish these by 2030, on Nov. 4 in the OACI building on Robert Bourassa Blvd.
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News
Dans La Rue Leads the Demand for Free Education
About a hundred students gathered to protest for free education at Square Victoria park downtown this Wednesday. The protest was organized by Dans la Rue Montreal, in support of the Canadian Federation of of Students who organized protests pushing for free education all around Canada in 42 other campuses and in 28 different cities, on the same day.
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News
Divest Concordia to Start Campaign for CSU Mandate in Their Favour
Divest Concordia announced that they will begin campaigning on Nov. 1 to encourage students to vote in favour of the Concordia Student Union taking an official stance in support of Divest Concordia.
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Opinions
Justin Trudeau Is No Environmentalist
Does Trudeau actually care about meeting targets against climate change, or is he just expanding the fossil fuel industry so that the Liberal government can take a cut of the profit using a carbon tax?
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News
TRAC Negotiates New Pay Grades With Concordia
TRAC executives announced that Concordia agreed to increased, more uniformed pay grades at a general assembly on Wednesday night.