In This Issue
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SportsAn uncertain future for McGill women’s rugby
After McGill University announced the elimination of 25 club and varsity sports teams, the women’s rugby team jumped into action to save their program. But even after raising over $80,000 in funding for the 2026 season, can the team maintain their competition long-term?
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OpinionsEditorial: Refuse your rent increase
The Link condemns the TAL’s new calculation system for its yearly rent increase recommendations and urges residents to fight against corporate and landlord greed in every capacity.
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OpinionsEditorial: Protect your right to strike
Quebec’s Law 14 gives the labour minister expanded authority to intervene in strikes and lockouts deemed to cause serious harm to the population. The law was heavily criticized by unions during the STM strikes in late 2025, which argued that its criteria are broad enough to affect most major strikes.
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SportsEmma Nonnenmacher creates balance in a fast-paced life
From Haguenau to Montreal, Emma Nonnenmacher has made a name for herself as a marquee prospect for the French national women’s hockey team. In her first season with Concordia University, she explains how she manages the workload.
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SportsThe U Sports-NCAA dilemma
Young Canadian athletes often see the U.S. and the National Collegiate Athletic Association as the ideal destination to continue their professional aspirations. But what happens when things go sideways—and what can Canadian universities provide as an alternative?
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SportsBargaining before buckets
The WNBA Players’ Association and the league failed to come to a deal on the new collective bargaining agreement, meaning the upcoming season may face a lockout or strike. With the WNBA achieving more popularity than ever before, why are the players and the league so unaligned with regard to a new agreement?
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SportsYouth hockey participation drops as costs continue to rise
As one of Canada’s most popular sports, hockey represents an opportunity for kids across the country to get in the game. But what happens when rising costs turn the sport into a pay-to-play experience?
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Fringe Arts‘Closer in Strife’ and the intimacy of silence
Set within the quiet tension of the family home, Alec Nikoghossian’s “Closer in Strife” explores how closeness is shaped under pressure, drawing from the 2020 Beirut explosion.
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Fringe ArtsArt is labour
Behind performances, exhibitions and publications is labour that rarely gets seen. From rigid routines to unpaid admin, three artists reflect on what it means to make a living from art.
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Fringe ArtsCare in every stitch
Through custom, slow-made pieces, founder Isabelle Mills centres trust and gender-affirming care, crafting pieces that carry meaning beyond their use.
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NewsMontreal housing situation a ‘crisis of unaffordability’
Several Montreal tenants’ rights groups and demonstrators are speaking out against what they describe as an acceleration of the rise in average rents in Quebec, following a change in how the Tribunal administratif du logement calculates its rent increase recommendation.
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Fringe ArtsHow pole dance lost its roots in studios
Pole dancing has gone mainstream, but the people who built it are still treated as outsiders. As pole moves into studios, gyms and stages, strippers speak about who gets to claim their work as art.
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NewsAn uncertain future for Concordia’s new French immersive courses
Concordia University’s new French curriculum, announced last year, is led by limited-term instructor Geneviève Bibeau. With Bibeau’s contract facing non-renewal, some Concordia professors question whether the program can continue.
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NewsAI is shifting the entry-level job landscape
According to 2025 data, 15 to 24-year-olds are struggling to find work in Canada. Experts say AI is disrupting the entry-level job market for young graduates.
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NewsAre immigrant workers being left behind?
Newcomers to Canada can be stuck in “bureaucratic limbos’’ which can complicate the job search, increase the likelihood of workplace abuse and exacerbate workplace power imbalances.
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NewsHave Quebec workers lost their right to strike?
Quebec’s new Law 14, formally Bill 89, grants the labour minister the power to intervene to stop a strike or a lockout, something the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) says will infringe on workers’ rights across the province.
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NewsThe PhD trap
PhD students perform a wide range of services and labour for Concordia University, yet some feel that they are rarely acknowledged, and more often than not, their programs are framed as training and service.
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OpinionsPrecarity packaged as convenience
Gig work is often framed as choice and convenience, but its rise points to a deeper shift in how risk and security are distributed across Canada’s workforce.
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OpinionsThe vanishing doorway to work
Today’s “junior” roles demand years of experience and offer little pay. For a generation eager to start their careers, the entry-level job has quietly disappeared.
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OpinionsDo it for the Vine
Nostalgia for 2016 is part of a bigger urge to escape the modern internet and go back to something that felt real.
