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NewsIconic Images in an Internet Age
The girl isn’t just beautiful. Striking would be more the word. Her long, flowing brown hair is tangled, but perfectly frames her smudged, dirty and swarthy skin. The scarf she wears is tattered and ripped in several places. But most noticeable are her eyes—piercing green, they speak of the pain of the war their owner has endured.
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NewsThe Internet War
WikiLeaks’s recent release of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. military history has turned the Internet into a war zone.
On one side, WikiLeaks has assembled the brightest and most dedicated hacker-activists in an effort to turn the Internet into a bastion of transparency and information freedom. -
NewsAlternative Press in the Gaza Strip
Alternative media is growing to be as essential to journalism as a picture is to a story. In both cases, what was once a complimentary partnership quickly evolved into a symbiotic relationship.
“Independent and social media [are] much more relevant [than mainstream and mass-media] to the pulse of societies around the world,” said Stefan Christoff, a Montreal-based journalist and activist. “Of course investigative journalism is still crucial. It has a power that Twitter will never have.” -
NewsIch Bin Ein Partier
For the forty-odd years that it was divided, Berlin was dominated by big personalities, big speeches and big events. Characters like John F. Kennedy, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan all left their mark on the city, using it as the focal point of their war of ideologies.
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NewsDeportation is Double Punishment: Activists
Twenty protesters gathered outside of the Immigration and Refugee Board early Wednesday morning to denounce the deportation of Dany Villanueva to Honduras.
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NewsWe Live Here
We Live Here! is a fundraiser that benefits people who have been kicked out of their homes because of their sexual identity or orientation. On Oct. 16, We Live Here! brought together different groups from Montreal’s transsexual and transgender communities at Café Cleopatra.
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NewsSouth Shore Hit With Transit Hikes
Philippe Johnson, a 21-year-old Université de Montréal student, moved to the apartment building adjacent to the Longueil Metro station to avoid taking the bus—and to avoid the hassle of paying for an expensive bus pass.
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NewsConcordia Waits to Turn it In
After testing the American anti-plagiarism software Turnitin on roughly 500 students over the summer semester, Concordia’s Centre for Teaching and Learning Services has postponed a school-wide implementation of the project until further notice, citing privacy concerns.
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NewsFEAST on Creativity
NEW YORK, NY—Sitting in the main auditorium of The New York Times building, the world’s movers of social media spoke about the future of the global economy, society and cities at the FEAST conference on Oct. 15.
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NewsMontreal to Spend $35 Million Fighting Homelessness
Gerald Tremblay wants to change the way Montreal deals with homelessness.
On Oct. 13, Mayor Tremblay announced plans to build 750 new housing units for the homeless by 2013.
