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  Strikers Violate Concordia’s Code of Rights and Responsibilities

  Thomas Shukr – Published March 31, 2015

  The strike was only approved because of outrageously low voter turnouts.

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  Grab a Pint to End Homelessness

  Pierre-Auguste Comte, Cyril Coussa, Samy El-Osta & Stephanie Mulligan Pittarelli – Published March 24, 2015

  On behalf of my colleagues, I am writing you this message in order to seek your collaboration. We are four students at the John Molson School of Business, and within the framework of our course Leadership and Motivation, we decided to raise awareness about homelessness in Montreal to Concordia students.

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  Why You Should Think Twice Before Voting for Community Action

  Agunik Mamikonyan – Published March 24, 2015

  Student politics is one of the most brutal sectors of student involvement. I myself dived headfirst into positions of governance; I’m currently the Executive Secretary of the School of Community and Public Affairs. Heard of this major? Probably because four out of the seven current CSU executives come from there.

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  The Upcoming March 26 GSA General Assembly

  Alex Ocheoha – Published March 24, 2015

  The upcoming Graduate Student Association’s general assembly on March 26 brings to mind the awful assembly on October 23, 2014. I was interested in bringing matters regarding GSA’s accreditation to the notice of members at that assembly, but was disappointed with what happened.

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  Why I’m Supporting Community Action in the CSU Elections

  Alex Tyrrell – Published March 24, 2015

  At a time when students are confronted with repeated austerity measures and widespread environmental degradation, it is important to have a student union that defends our interests, builds community and ensures that our voices are heard both inside and outside the university.

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  Why My Vote Will Go to Community Action (and Why Yours Should Too)

  Jessica Lelièvre – Published March 17, 2015

  Two years ago, I made my first steps in student politics.

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  Money Isn’t Innocent

  James Clayton – Published March 17, 2015

  Canada is described as a democratic constitutional monarchy with a sovereign as head of state and a prime minister as head of government.

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  TVA Unfairly Targeted Muslim Students

  Haley Firkser and Yasmine Filali – Published March 10, 2015

  The Azrieli Holocaust Collection at Concordia’s library was established in 1984 by oft-celebrated and oft-criticized Montreal philanthropist and architect, David Azrieli. The collection is expansive and incredibly necessary for those who wish to educate themselves about the history of the Holocaust, which unjustly took the lives of approximately 11 million people, over half of which were Jews.

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  Israel is not an Apartheid State

  Bradley Martin – Published March 10, 2015

  A number of students at Concordia University seek to accuse Israel of being an “apartheid state.” The aims of Israeli Apartheid Week are to bolster opposition towards what they term as “Israeli Apartheid.”

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  Obituary: Brendan Cahill

  – Updated December 2, 2014 at 9:17am

  The Link has learned that Brendan Cahill, a staffer on this publication in the mid-1980s, passed away a number of months ago in Toronto. He was 54.