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Rebel Journalist Dishes to Dawson
Former CTV reporter Kai Nagata aired more dirty laundry about his experiences as a mainstream broadcast journalist this past Monday at Dawson College.
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Thousands Walk for HIV/AIDS Initiatives
Quebec’s leading HIV/AIDS foundation hosted their 19th annual fundraising walk on Sept. 18. The Farha Foundation, which hosted Ça Marche, is in the middle of a campaign to raise $400,000 by Dec. 1 of this year–with $300,000 raised so far.
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FASA, Finally
Executives of the Fine Arts Student Alliance can now lay claim to their job titles, as a near-unanimous vote resulted in the ratification of April’s election results at a special general meeting on Sept. 13.
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ASFA Elections Underway
The first meeting of the Arts & Science Federation of Associations Council kicked off with the loss of an executive on Thursday, as President Alex Gordon read the resignation letter of VP External Affairs and Sustainability Asma Omar.
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Mulcair’s Musings
In the last Canadian Federal election, the New Democratic Party formed the official opposition to Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. It was the largest number of seats held in the House of Commons by the NDP in its 40-year history.
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Books With Spines. Literally.
Though the notion of renting a person might seem a bit unseemly, Katherine Hall, coordinator of the Human Library project, insisted the event is not at all like slavery.
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Gabbin’ With the Goalie
Legendary Montreal Canadiens goalie Ken Dryden had hopeful messages for two bodies of consummate survivors during his appearance on Thursday evening.
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“I’m Not a Criminal”
Paola Ortiz came to Canada five years ago, hoping to find sanctuary from a violent fiancé, who also happened to be a member of Mexico’s federal police force. Yesterday, a Canadian federal judge decreed that she will have to return to her homeland, where she says she fears for her safety.
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Sex Workers Denounce Denouncement
Take Back the Night, a traditional march to denounce violence against and exploitation of women, usually unites all kinds of feminist groups around the world. This year, however, a rift has developed as the group proposed, among other activities for this year’s edition, that participant women “enter […] a place where there are images of sexual exploitation (sexualization) or body [sic] (sexual industries) of women and scream out loud, ‘Enough is enough.’”
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CSU Minus Two
Less than a month into the academic year, two members of the Concordia Student Union Council have tendered their resignations. In an email regarding the agenda for the CSU meeting on Sept. 21 that was sent to other Council members and members of the Concordia media on Friday evening, CSU Chair Nick Cuillerier identified the two councilors as John Bellingham, who represents independent students, and Gregory Syanidis from the John Molson School of Business.