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Students Sit-In Against Renewal
Nearly 40 students occupied the ninth floor of Concordia’s GM building on Oct. 27 to protest the university’s agreement to extend its contract with PepsiCo. as the exclusive provider of on-campus beverages.
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You Steep What You Sow
Crouched in the RealiTEA garden on Loyola campus amongst the Silver Absinthe, Leopard Lilly and Peppermint, a dozen students and community members harvested herbs for tea-making on Oct. 28 at the Concordia Food Systems Project’s final skill share.
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Safe Sex in the Stacks
The Concordia Student Union, Queer Concordia, the 2110 Center for Gender Advocacy and Health Services are wrapped up in negotiations to provide distribution centres with free safe-sex kits on campus.
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Mental Geography
“What is especially interesting about today’s Montreal is the way it is bringing together the histories of the city, which were once so separate,” said Sherry Simon, at La Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Simon, a Concordia University professor, headlined the fourth edition of the President’s Conference Series with a talk titled “The Flow of Languages, the Grace of Cultures,” on Oct. 27. -
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NATO Council Secretary Speaks
Expect the war in Afghanistan—the longest military engagement in both Canadian and American history—to continue for a “very long” time, said Edmund Whiteside, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council Secretary.
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Anti-Smuggling Law Misses the Mark
The Conservative government’s new proposed law on human smuggling is causing concern among refugee advocates.
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Plastic Rain
TAPthirst in conjunction with überculture and QPIRG Concordia dumped over 200 plastic water bottles on Norman Bethune Square on Oct. 20 to raise awareness about sustainability.
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Screwed Over
Headlines of cocaine-induced rehab stints are old news in the celebrity world and the days of checking into rehab for “exhaustion” seem to be over.
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Wiesel Speaks
In the 65 years since Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust, there has been no end to ethnic cleansing, genocide and mass murder on a global scale.
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Strength in Numbers
A group of families affected by police violence joined with civil justice advocates and supporters this past weekend to demand an end to police brutality.
The group hosted several events over the weekend in recognition of the North American Day to Stop Police Brutality and Oppression.