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NewsNDP Gets Behind Striking Mcgill Workers
The National Democratic Party showed up in full force to support striking McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association workers Friday, by publicly attending a rally at the number-one school in the country and encouraging strikers to settle the dispute out of court.
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NewsCapital Idea
As members of Quebec’s National Assembly went back to work on Friday, they were welcomed with chants of, “Students, united, will never be defeated.”
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NewsFASA Finances
“It was a pretty small error [online], but the implications are pretty big,” said FASA President Paisley Sim. “We all make the same amount of money. I wouldn’t be okay with [making more than my executives] at all. It’s inappropriate.”
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NewsKeeping Up With MUNACA
On Oct. 14, Joan O’Malley—a 63-year-old woman and striking non-faculty employee of McGill University—was forcefully arrested in the entrance to the Bonaventure Hotel, as McGill’s labour dispute grew even more heated.
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NewsThe Occupiers Project
Photojournalist Peter Haeghaert spent the better part of his week camping out at Occupy Montreal, capturing the faces of protestors he met. Hoping to discover more about the movement that has gained international traction, Haeghaert said he felt it was important to document.
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News‘What’s Wrong With The System?’
Holding their second annual march and vigil on a chilly Saturday afternoon, the Justice for Victims of Police Killings Coalition demanded “dignity, justice and truth” for their slain kin.
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NewsVirgin Radio Shaves Heads, Raises Cash For Cancer Research
Breast cancer awareness month is coming to a close, but it’s still not too late to shave a head for cancer—or just to donate to the cause. Virgin Radio 96 is hosting their 11th annual Shave to Save campaign this month as part of the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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NewsConference With a Conscience
Genocide in Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in the early 1990s went notoriously ignored by the Western press and the United Nations—but these atrocities also caused positive changes in the media designed to avoid this kind of reaction in the future. The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies came together …
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NewsASFA Resolved
The results of last week’s Arts and Science Federation of Associations byelections will stand, as former ASFA Chief Electoral Officer Nick Cuillerier promised a special meeting of the ASFA council to withdraw a complaint he had made to the faculty association’s Judicial Committee.
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NewsTea-ing Off Security
Members and sympathizers of Concordia’s culture-jamming club überculture had a near run-in with Montreal police on Oct. 18—for drinking tea.A rotating group of five to six activists sat on the floor of the foyer of the Hall Building for their annual tea party in a peaceful publicity stunt to protest the lack of student space.
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