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Clearing the Air
Despite large losses incurred operating Reggie’s student bar, CUSACorp is posting a profit for the second consecutive month.
According to files provided by Concordia Student Union’s VP Finance Zhuo Ling, CUSACorp, the CSU’s for-profit arm, made a net profit of $960 in October. -
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Ownership Unclear
Every month, the 39 tenants of the Faubourg building make out their rent cheque to Edifice 1616 Ste. Catherine Ouest Le Faubourg Inc. They don’t know where their money goes after that.
Neither do we.
“It’s a group of people, they use that name because they don’t want people to know their names,” said Jovette Whiteman, the administrative assistant to building administrator Ziki Zaffir. “It’s like a company number.” -
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Debating a Student Union Building
Is a student centre the only answer to the university’s pressing need for student space?
For Adrien Severyns, Concordia Student Union VP External & Projects, the answer is Yes. -
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‘A Giant Islamaphobic Seizure’
University of Berkeley professor Wendy Brown did not fly all the way from California to speak to Montrealers about a piece of cloth.
She also had no intention of discussing how the West appears to be in the midst of having a giant Islamophobic seizure. Nor the way in which, considering all the things that are happening in the world, it seems remarkable to her that we are so preoccupied with women’s clothing. -
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Fighting Hunger
Sylvie is a single mother. She works full time at a minimum-wage job to provide for her two children. Faced with mounting credit card debt and a stack of other bills, Sylvie turned to a food bank to help ease the cost of feeding her family.
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Passing the Buck
What started as a talk about the corporatization of Concordia turned into a debate about the controversial upcoming Student Centre referendum, as it was revealed for the first time that the Centre would be located in the Faubourg building.
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Shattered Glass
The damage was caused by what police are calling “projectiles thrown with the intention to cause mischief.” No one was hurt and no suspects have been found so far.
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Bleeding for Civil Disobedience
There is an old saying which suggests that “good fences make good neighbours.”
But you may have a hard time hearing that in the West Bank. -
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A Mountain of Debt
The Quebec Coalition of Consumer Associations released a survey last Wednesday that indicates credit card owners have skewed perceptions of the reality of their debt, and unless something is done to educate people, the situation will only get worse.
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Unofficial No Campaigns Take Root
With limited resources and no political experience to speak of, Ayanda Dube and Joseph Mynyenyiwa have emerged as the first unofficial “No” campaign in this year’s Student Union Building referendum.