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NewsCutting the Board
Tensions were visible as Concordia’s Board of Governors, the university’s highest governing body, debated cutting 26 of its 40 seats during the board’s first meeting of the academic year on Sept. 30.
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NewsConcordia Inks New Ad Deal
Expect more advertising on campus after Concordia signed a new ad contract in early September with a consortium of three firms.
While the number of backlit boards on campus—the main form of advertising until recently—will not change, the consortium will add new plasma screens around both campuses, digital ads in bathrooms and banners in high-traffic areas. -
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NewsReining in Development
Citizens of Parc Extension are calling for more social housing to be included in a $1 billion development project that borders the Montreal neighbourhood.
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NewsMoney, For Nothing
Imagine a religion with no god. Imagine that they promise you the ability to manipulate matter, to never get sick, to have control over space and time. Now imagine that the only way to get to this state of transcendence is by gradually paying your way.
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NewsThis Is a Soul
When it comes to mending a human body, medical practitioners tend to focus on biology for answers. But for Dr. Rick Hodes, who has spent the last 22 years curing sick Ethiopian children, what begins the healing practice is the recognition that each patient is a soul.
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NewsGrad Students Protest Tuition Increases
Braving the early morning rain and cold, 25 graduate students marched outside of Concordia University’s MB Building on Sept. 30 to protest tuition hikes for international students.
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NewsThe Hand of the Really Really Free Market
Überculture wants you to give what you can and take what you need.
On Sept. 30, überculture—a student-run organization that resists commercialization—held a Really Really Free Market on the 7th floor of Concordia’s Hall Building, allowing students to trade their discarded possessions in celebration of sustainable consumerism. -
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NewsJustice for Anas
The coroner’s inquiry into the death of Mohamed Anas Bennis will resume despite efforts by the Montreal Police Brotherhood to have the case closed.
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A 26-year-old man stabbed outside a bar in Point St. Charles last month succumbed to his injuries and died on Sept. 30.
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NewsSisters not Statistics
Over a dozen placards with pictures of smiling, missing aboriginal women adorned the statue in Cabot Square on Oct. 4, looking into a 200-strong crowd that gathered for the fifth annual Sisters in Spirit march to honor the 582 recorded missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.
