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NewsTransforming 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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NewsDismissed 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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NewsOut 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. -
News‘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.
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NewsLooking at the Fine Details
How much space will students own in the student union building? Members of Free Education Montreal asked that question in an open meeting last Thursday.
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NewsBracing for Impact
Hundreds of St. Henri residents facing eviction due to the forthcoming Turcot Interchange project will meet with the Ministère des Transports Québec this week to discuss the potential ramifications of the mega-project on their community.
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NewsConU Inc. Author Speaks With The Link
According to Concordia’s administration, David Bernans is a risk to be assessed.
Making headlines after the university’s Risk Assessment Committee banned him from holding a book reading on campus in 2006, the author of Con U Inc. and North of 9/11 will speak on Wednesday as part of a week-long “Ask Why” awareness campaign organized by various student groups. -
News‘Concordia Is Unique,’ Says Administration
Despite finishing 11th out of 12 comprehensive universities in the latest Maclean’s University Rankings, Concordia’s administration is not in damage-control mode. The problem is Maclean’s, they argue, not Concordia.
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NewsOrgans and Operating Systems
Several weeks ago in the Montreal General Hospital, 68-year-old Gilles Lefort was put to sleep and had his prostate cancer successfully removed—by robots.
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NewsAn Affordability Issue: Property CEO
Adding two hours onto the Arts and Science Federation of Associations’ Council meeting on Nov. 11, Jonathan Wener, the chairman and CEO of one of the largest property firms in the city, told councillors that a proposed student union building was worth the price students would pay for it.
