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Verity Stevenson
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NewsProtesters Served Formal Complaints from Professor Following Hard Picketing
A campaign called “No Tribunals for Students” was created yesterday after several students who picketed a political science class at the beginning of the month were handed formal complaints from faculty.
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News#occupationUQAM Goes Late Into the Night
#occupationUQAM began after 22 protesters and students were arrested at the school for blocking entry to classes earlier during the day. They reportedly sang, flicked lights on and off and erased teachers’ notes. This all happened despite an injunction filed last week in a Quebec court forbidding protesters from preventing UQÀM students going to class.
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News“Fighting Against Austerity Will Be Feminist and Transinclusive or It Won’t Be a Fight”
A heavy police presence and a game of snakes and ladders characterized Tuesday night’s women and trans people-only protest against austerity measures, as one protester put it.
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Fringe ArtsLadyCab Offers One-Way Service for Ignorance
Three women are using humour to challenge Montreal police’s offensive response to sexual assault allegations in cabs last fall.
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NewsWho Run the World? Feminists
A Beyoncé-inspired conference happening tomorrow morning aims to break down the criteria of what it means to be feminist.
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NewsRacism, the Canadian Way
Canada’s relationship to slavery dates back to the 17th century and it’s its own problem—not part of the United States’.
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NewsTaking Back the Plate
There’s still a lot left to do before Concordia could see its food system fully run by students.
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Special IssueA Game of Life with Crooked Rules
There has been much ado about sex work since Canada’s prostitution laws were struck down in December 2013 in the historic Bedford v. Canada decision.
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NewsBusiness and Sustainability, Sitting in a Tree
Hope for social and environmental change is in the hands of small private sector businesses, according to one of Rise Kombucha’s founders.
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NewsDivestment’s On You
Divestment from fossil fuel ventures is not symbolic, educator Crystal Lameman says.
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Special IssueCSIS and Desist: Interview With Glen Greenwald
“There was just one person at the CBC who basically hung up the reporting.”
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NewsA By-Election Will Go Down as Leaves Turn Brown
A referendum question on whether students agree to index the Concordia Student Union’s fee levy to inflation will set the wheels in motion for a fall by-election Nov. 25 to 27.
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NewsCUPFA Reaches Salary Agreement with Concordia
CUPFA and Concordia come to seven-month salary agreement.
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NewsJanet Mock Talks Intersectionality, Survival and Audacity
Piers Morgan got Janet Mock all wrong. She’s a writer, she’s a sister, she’s a feminist, she’s a trans woman, and she was never a man.
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NewsMcGill Head Football Coach Resigns
The McGill Redmen head coach says everyone should be given a chance at rehabilitation.
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NewsUPDATED: McGill Running Back Pleads Not Guilty to Domestic Violence
McGill Redmen football player Luis-Andres Guimont-Mota pleaded not guilty for three criminal charges of assault on his girlfriend, theft and uttering threats in court Thursday.
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NewsReproductive Justice Activists Hold “Uterus Pageant” in Solidarity with New Brunswick
Seven pink, red, multicoloured and glittery uteruses danced and sang in a “uterus pageant” at Parc Émilie-Gamelin Saturday afternoon.
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NewsTechnicality Results in Deportation of Nigerian Family, Lawyer Says
Six years ago, Winifred Agimelen escaped from the country where she was kidnapped with her children, faced the threat of genital mutilation and death, as well as lost sight of her husband—who may or may not still be alive. On Sunday, a technicality sent her back.
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NewsNigerian Mother to Be Deported Sunday After 6 Years in Canada
Winifred Agimelen will split from the safe home she’s built for herself in Montreal—a house, a career, a husband, warmth and comfort for her three daughters—Sunday afternoon.
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NewsAdvocates: Gov’t Leaves Sex Workers Out of the Discussion on Bill C-36
Five advocates at the conference, representing trans, male, female and drug-using sex workers, say the bill, which is currently being studied by the House of Commons justice committee, doesn’t take those groups into account.
