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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.
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NewsUniting Against Tuition Increase
Quebec students will not take the newest provincial budget cuts to education and social services without a fight.
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News‘Because We’re More Human Than They Are’
Canada’s political leaders need to be ready to take decisive action to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity, said Canadian Senator Roméo Dallaire during a speech at Concordia last Thursday.
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NewsThe ASFA Report
It took two hours of debating and two rounds of voting, but the Arts and Science Federation of Associations narrowly passed its annual budget at an Oct. 14 meeting.
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NewsStarving in the Shadows
Issues affecting the indigenous people of Chile continue to be neglected in mainstream media coverage, and it’s no coincidence, Mapuche journalist Pedro Cayuqueo said at a conference in Montreal on Oct. 16.
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Fighting HIV Stereotypes
Though being gay hasn’t been considered a mental illness for almost 40 years, there’s more than one way to be unwell. That was the message of University of Michigan professor David Halperin’s Oct. 14 speech, “Are Homosexuals Still Sick?”
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NewsNo Place for the Homeless
Young couples line up around the block. The line stretches along a steel fence on Ste. Catherine Street past a heap of rubble that used to be an Indian restaurant. Gradually, they trickle out of the warm September night into a showroom on Lambert Closse Street.
