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Noelle Didierjean
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News“No Evidence” of Bedbug Infestation in Webster Library: Concordia
Concordia University has denied that the Webster Library downtown is infested with bedbugs, after a photo of an insect was posted to the “Spotted: Concordia University” Facebook page Monday.
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NewsCSU By-Election Referendum Walkthrough
What students will be voting for during this week’s by-elections
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Special IssueGuerrilla Gardeners
“Permaculture is looking at natural ecosystems, looking at how they thrive […] and mimicking these same symbiotic relationships that exist in nature,” Godber said, adding that permaculture can be implemented not just in rural areas, but also in backyard plots and even on city blocks.
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NewsSo, What’s Wrong with Austerity Anyway?
In light of Friday’s protest against austerity, The Link chatted with David Macdonald, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He explained how low-income Canadians are screwed over by austerity, why big business stands to profit, and alternatives to cutting in the public sector.
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NewsOver 10,000 Costumed Anti-Austerity Protesters March in Montreal
An estimated 10,000 disgruntled zombies, witches, students and public sector employees took to the streets of Montreal Friday to protest austerity measures imposed by the Quebec government.
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NewsPhilosophy Students Vote to Strike
“The Philosophy department has taken a large portion of these cuts, resulting in larger class sizes, reduced TA positions, and loss of staff. As a result of this […] [our] overall quality of education will suffer enormously.”
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NewsFiscal Cuts, Scholarly Bruises
Philosophy students say austerity measures have already had an effect on their studies.
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Fringe ArtsWhat’s For Dinner? Western Imperialism
A group of 13 individuals eat dinner with a PTSD-suffering war journalist, downing shots of liquor from the Eastern Bloc, eating pie, and discussing the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. Although everyone at the table is part of a play, only one of them is an actor—in this production, to spectate is to participate. While Rats Eat Pie fully immerses its cast-audience hybrid in the fallout of what has moved from the tragic to the historical.
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NewsSustainable Concordia Protests Austerity, Calls for Reinstatement of Staff Member
Sustainable Concordia has amassed around 100 signatures on a petition calling for the reinstatement of the sustainable transportation coordinator—a position that was cut by the university the day after someone had been hired for it.
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NewsCamp Line 9: Activists Decry Oil Exploration on Spill Site
Camp Line 9 has a communal library and makeshift kitchen, where three vegetarian meals a day are provided. Workshops on a range of topics related to environmental and anti-colonial activism were held, including on direct action.
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Opinions
Attendees of Naomi Klein’s Book Launch Weigh in on Our Planet’s Future
People held diverse opinions about climate change at Naomi Klein’s Montreal book launch.
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NewsThousands Take to the Street to Demand Action on Climate Change
Several thousand people marched in Montreal on Sunday in solidarity with the People’s Climate March in New York City. Held to coincide with the U.N. Climate Summit, the march’s goal was to “bend the course of history,” according to its organizing group, 350.org.
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NewsNaomi Klein on Capitalism, Climate Change and the Possibility of “Armageddon”
Author Speaks Before Montreal Book Launch of This Changes Everything
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The Socio-Political Analysis of a SUUNS Concert
Seeing SUUNS live is akin to transforming the entirety of the socialist bureaucracy into an anthropomorphic, conceptual interpretation of Kafka’s The Trial, giving it acid and charging intoxicated 18-year-olds $10 to watch
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NewsActivists Bill McKibben, Ellen Gabriel Speak at Concordia
The environmental activists spoke to hundreds of students about the links between indigenous rights, migrant justice and our planet’s future.
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NewsVigil Commemorates Cyclist Killed by Police in Quebec City
Twenty people gathered at a vigil Thursday night at Place Émilie-Gamelin to commemorate the cyclist who died in Quebec City after being run over by police Wednesday.
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OpinionsNah’msayin?
When I consumed half a litre of coffee and nearly cried into my textbooks in that strange, half-wired, half-exhausted state finals brings with it, you were there for me. Amidst a sea of vegetarian options you stood out, by virtue of your delicious wholesomeness.
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Special IssueFinding Diamonds in the Rough
For those who prefer to avoid the touristy crowds of Ste. Catherine St., with its impersonal fast fashion and shoddy quality, secondhand stores can be a godsend.
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News7 Years Later, The Hive Café Is Finally Open—Kind Of
The Hive Café project has been in the works for so long that it has become the stuff of myth—mention to Concordia alumni that the Hive Café will soon be opening, and you are likely to be met with maniacal laughter and warning tales of opening parties held years ago.
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Montreal’s Vigil for Michael Brown
Around 60 people gathered in front of the Police Fraternity of Montreal Sunday evening in a vigil to show solidarity with the family of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9.
