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NewsUninvited
A motion to invite Concordia University Television to film Concordia Student Union council meetings quickly turned sour at the union’s Oct. 13 meeting.
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NewsUndergraduates to Vote on Student Centre
On Nov. 24, Concordia students will vote on whether or not they want to pay a series of fee levies to fund a $43 million student centre.
At the Concordia Student Union’s Oct. 13 council meeting, a motion to introduce a referendum question asking students to pay a $0.50 per credit fee levy that would increase for four semesters until it reaches $2.50 passed through council almost unanimously. -
NewsMiddle East Mag Bridges East and West
North Americans just need to take a glimpse at the news to know that Western and Arabic cultures seem to be constantly butting heads. News media doesn’t help ease the stereotypical polarization that exists between the two societies, like when a camera and microphone are turned towards a certain extremist Florida pastor threatening to burn a Qur’an in his backyard.
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NewsMedium as a Megaphone
You attend a lecture and everything is going well, until you come to the dreaded Q&A. Don’t get me wrong, you value the presenter’s opinions and relish the chance to see them go off script.
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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.
