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NewsSQ Nabs ‘The Cat’
Sureté du Québec officers ended a four-year manhunt on Oct. 31 when they arrested Jason Gabriel in Kanesatake, a small Mohawk settlement about 40 kilometres northwest of Montreal.
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Water Bottle Free Possibilities
Extending a proverbial olive branch to student leaders, campus activists and the press, Concordia’s administration sent an e-mail detailing the future of water bottle negotiations on campus a week after renewing an exclusive beverage contract with PepsiCo.
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News‘The Last Divided City in the World’
Hebron’s 165,000 residents live in a bustling Arab metropolis filled with honking, chaotic traffic circles and a shriek of vendors. Despite the stir of life, the city’s centre is quiet and some streets are abandoned.
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NewsThe Will To Intervene
“The future is yours to shape, not survive.”
That was the message of a speech given by retired Lieutenant-General and current Senator Romeo Dallaire at Concordia’s Hall building on Nov. 4. The speech was part of a promotional effort for Dallaire’s new book, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children. -
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Humour: The WD 40 of Healing
Drew Hayden Taylor—a pioneer of Native comedy—turned to humour to better express his culture in the theatre.
“Humor is the WD 40 of healing,” he said, speaking as the keynote of “An Extremely Serious and Intensely Sober Exploration of Native Humour in Canadian Media” last Thursday at the Masonic Memorial Temple. -
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NewsRefresh Your Public Space
Überculture, a student group opposed to the “corporatization of campus and public space,” launched campaigns this past week targeting PepsiCo.
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Sustainable Business Day Hosts Energy Tycoons
Sustainability and commercial expansion may seem oxymoronic, but not when big business defines it.
“Business students at John Molson School of Business [should] start rethinking the definition of the bottom line,” said Shelly Elslinger, a Concordia career advisor, at the Sustainable Business Day conference on Nov. 5. -
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NewsBetting on Ballots
Profiting from politics used to be a realm reserved for the crooked and immoral. Now, making a little money from elections is being brought to the masses.
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News‘The Biggest Failure’
Although it hasn’t been officially unveiled yet, the Ministère du Transport de Québec’s plan to overhaul Montreal’s decaying Turcot interchange has already shaken up city hall.
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NewsMissing Women, Missing Money
Last week, the Minister of State for Status of Women Canada, Rona Ambrose, detailed the federal government’s $10 million national strategy to address the disproportionately high number of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.
