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NewsCSU Expedites Opening of Hive Café
The Hive Solidarity Co-operative will most likely be open for the first week of classes, the CSU announced at a July 23 council meeting.
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NewsIsraeli, Palestinian Community Come Together to Protest Israeli Action in Gaza
Thin, sincere, and remarkably unfazed by the hundreds of people before her, 10-year-old Adan Alhjooj was one of a plethora of speakers, Jewish and Palestinian alike, who denounced Israeli actions in Gaza outside the Israeli consulate in Westmount July 25.
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NewsSPVM Officer Suspended Over Maple Spring Police Brutality Allegations
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NewsCSU Discusses Hall Building Mezzanine Café Plans
*Last semester Concordia students wondered if the referendum question mandating the Concordia Student Union to create a student-run Café in the Hall building’s mezzanine on a co-operative model would pass. Now that it has, the question faced by council is how to follow through.
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NewsConcordia, McGill Students Hold “Die-In” to Protest Fossil Fuel Investment
A rally culminating in a “die-in” was held on Tuesday, April 1 in protest of Concordia and McGill University’s environmental policies.
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NewsJane Goodall on Climate Change, Vegetarianism and Chimpanzees
The civil rights movement had Martin Luther King Jr., the feminist movement had Betty Friedan and the animal welfare movement has Jane Goodall.
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NewsCSU Council Denies Latest Attempt to Annul Per-Faculty Fee-Levy Question
A motion to annul the Judicial Board’s decision to put the per-faculty fee-levy question to a referendum failed at a special Concordia Student Union council meeting Wednesday evening, despite the referendum question already being put to voters as of Tuesday.
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Not For the Birds: Concordia Artist Madeleine Gendreau Turns Pigeon Carcasses Into Art
When my friend and artist Madeleine Gendreau, a student of Fine Arts at Concordia, asked me to keep a look out for dead pigeons, I enthusiastically agreed.
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News#CSU2014: Teams Square Off in Election Debates
Turnout was high compared to past years at the Concordia Student Union’s election debates this week, with around 40 people coming to listen to the three teams and two independent candidates at the downtown campus Wednesday and roughly a dozen the following day at Loyola.
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NewsPolice Brutality Protest Quickly Shut Down
Montreal police arrested five protesters and detained another 288 under municipal bylaw P-6 at the 18th annual demonstration against police brutality on Saturday, according to police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant.
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NewsECA Adopts “More Enforceable Ban” On Disrespectful Chants
Following the controversy over “sexist, violent, and degrading” chants sometimes sung at engineering events, the Engineering and Computer Science Association created a Student Spirit Committee at its council meeting Monday night mandated to make a songbook “free of crudeness and obscenity.”
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NewsTeaching and Research Assistants Rally for a Contract
Despite an outside temperature of minus-16 degrees Celsius, Concordia teaching and research assistants assembled Monday morning to voice their concerns as negotiations for a new collective agreement continued between their union—Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia—and the university.
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NewsLooking at Society through a Philosophical Lens
The City of Saints became the City of Knowledge over the weekend when Montreal was home to Philopolis, an annual three-day conference that brings together members of the public as well as students and professors from Montreal’s four universities to discuss societal issues.
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NewsTRAC Mobilizes Strike Committee After Contract Demands Refused
Union leaders say Concordia negotiators refused to acquiesce to the pay and benefit demands of the Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia at a bargaining session Feb. 11, leading to the creation of a strike committee to examine alternative forms of action at a general assembly Thursday night.
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NewsNo to Making Green, Yes to Being Green
Members of the Concordia Food Coalition, the Concordia Greenhouse and the Concordia Student Union agree: Concordia needs a new food system, one centred not on financial profits, but rather on being committed to providing affordable and healthy food. The only question is: how to make it possible?
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A Lukewarm Fest
Totally worth it if you’ve never grinded outside during the middle of winter and are nearing Jack Nicholson-levels of cabin fever.
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NewsLucia Kowaluk Talks Co-ops
With years of activism and successes opening co-operatives around Montreal under her belt, Order of Canada recipient Lucia Kowaluk gave some practical advice at Concordia for aspiring activists looking to bring about change in the world around them.
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Little Progress for TRAC Union
A general assembly for the Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia quickly became a hotbed of discontent and cries for action on Nov. 7 as members vocalized what they consider to be shortcomings in adequate compensation and a crawling pace of negotiations for a new labour contract.
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Visiting Professor Examines China-Japan Tension
The dispute over sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands—and the gas deposits they give access to—came to Concordia on Oct. 31 in a talk sponsored by the Department of Political Science.
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Fringe Arts
Voyeuristic Psychic Vampirism
The works of Croatian filmmaker Dalibor Baric cannot be easily ascribed a genre. Avant-garde, futuristic and experimental come to mind, but after watching a few of his short films, one would more readily believe that they belong in a bizarre category all their own.
