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Galloway Stirs Up Montreal
Former British MP George Galloway criticized the Harper government’s support of what he called the Israeli siege of Palestine in front of a packed house at Montreal’s Université de Québec à Montréal last Wednesday.
Galloway’s speech, entitled “Free Palestine. Free Afghanistan. Free Speech,” was originally meant to be part of a five-city tour before the former MP was banned from coming to Canada in 2009, an issue that Galloway addressed with humour. -
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Concordia Janitors Avoid Strike
Concordia’s janitorial staff learned they wouldn’t be going on strike following a majority vote to accept the most recent agreement reached between their union and employer on Nov. 21.
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Aislin Discusses Media, Politics and Satire
Aislin is the nom de plume of Canada’s foremost satirical cartoonist, Terry Mosher. He has been brilliantly lampooning culture and politics for decades, with unflinching insight and a wonderfully cruel wit.
The highlight of any newspaper, and perhaps of our political culture, is the editorial page cartoon. It can be both funny and thought-provoking, but only for certain people—those who take an interest in public affairs and know a few things about them. -
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Still Plenty Against the G20
Although the G20 in Toronto is five months past and the current one in South Korea is half a world away, over 400 protesters showed up for a march through Montreal’s downtown core on Nov. 12.
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Concordia in Space
Electrical and computer engineering professor Scott Gleason wants to launch Concordia’s first satellite, and he wants his students to do it themselves with little or no assistance.
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‘Building a Socialist Party in Quebec’
Students and workers are paying for the mistakes of multinational corporations, said Joel Bergman, a member of upstart political party Quebec Solidaire and the International Marxist Tendency.
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Transforming Montreal
Montreal’s urban space is on the verge of being lost to private interest and gentrification, and it’s not just the bottom rung of the economic ladder that will lose out. That was the consensus of the City for Sale panel discussion, presented by the activist collective The Rad School last Wednesday in Concordia’s CI building.
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Dismissed Auditors Fire Back
The dismissal of two longtime Concordia University auditors by President Judith Woodsworth has created a compromising situation for the school with Quebec’s labour review board. In filing a grievance, the auditors have produced a trail of paperwork showing that the university’s senior administrators participated in the same type of behaviour that led to their firing.
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Out of the Trenches
The fallen heroes of a different kind of war were remembered last Thursday at Tim Miller’s lecture, Sex/Body/Self/Virus.
The long-time HIV/AIDS activist and queer performance artist dedicated his Concordia talk and performance to honouring his friends who died in the early 90s from AIDS while fighting in the “culture wars” in the United States. -
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‘Wasting Away in Traffic’
Transport Québec’s $3 billion plan to expand the Turcot interchange will not solve Montreal’s traffic woes according to Pierre Gauthier, an urban planning professor at Concordia University.