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NewsStudent Centre Reborn
Although the Concordia Student Union is staying mum about its plans, the student centre project that was rejected by 72 per cent of students at the March general election seems far from abandoned.
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NewsGuerilla Gender Neutrality
Before Thanksgiving weekend, 12 single-person bathrooms on each floor of the EV building were quietly “gender neutralized” by a guerilla sign maker.
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NewsWiesel to Speak at Con U
Writer, activist, Noble laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel will bring his story to Concordia on Oct. 19.
The Romanian-born Wiesel has published nearly 60 books and is a respected commentator on the subject of racism, violence and the evil of apathy in the face of suffering, which he calls the “greatest of all evils.” -
NewsReporter Supports Israel Defense Force
International media may be biased against Israel, claims Yaakov Katz, the military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post.
“Israel has a legitimate story to tell,” he said to journalism students and professors at Concordia last week during a lecture on reporting in the Middle East. “But it’s very difficult to get that story into today’s media.” -
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NewsSeville Comes Down
Montreal’s Seville Theatre was torn down on Oct. 7.
The theatre, which decayed on the city’s western edge for the last 25 years, was destroyed to make room for three condo towers to be built by Montreal developer Prével, a project estimated at $112 million. -
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NewsASFA Elections Under Way
As the Arts and Science Federation of Associations campaigning period for a VP Communications came to a close on Oct. 11, all parties are now hoping that students just show up to vote.
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NewsMapuche Hunger Strike Continues
Fourteen Mapuche aboriginals say they are willing to starve themselves to death in a Chilean prison to draw the eyes of the world to their villages, which they say are being leveled by the forestry industry.
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NewsMore G20 Charges Dropped
In a move that some are calling an admission of wrongdoing by the police, many Quebecers who had been charged with conspiracy during June’s G20 Summit in Toronto had those charges dismissed on Oct. 8.
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NewsThe Age of Collaboration
Don Tapscott is an author, media theorist and optimist.
The author of Macrowikinomics thinks the world has finally had the wakeup call it has been waiting for after having barely avoided the collapse of the global economy in 2008. -
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NewsQPIRG to Charge Flat Rate Fee
The Quebec Public Interest Research Group, Concordia’s grassroots and social activist organization, will charge a $10 membership fee to student and non-student members alike.
