News
-
News
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. -
News
‘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. -
News
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.
-
News
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.
-
News
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.
-
News
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. -
News
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.
-
News
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.
-
News
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. -
News
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.