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NewsMeet VPS-24
When does a gathering of people become a temporary use of space?
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NewsComicon as You Are
Near the heart of Montreal’s downtown, where the city’s watery edges creep up on the island, masked men and women rejoice in the shared passions that bring them all together.
Here, the city’s nerdy underbelly spends one weekend a year living in the fantasy world they love so much. Through movies, television and whispers in the night, that world is rapidly expanding.
The nerds are ready to take over.
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NewsToothless Evictions
Members of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake want to evict non-natives from their reserve; they just don’t know how.
In February, the MCK handed out 35 eviction letters to residents of the small Mohawk community. The eviction notices were delivered to non-natives or Mohawks living with non-natives in Kahnawake—located across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal.
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NewsRue Frontenac Hits Newstands this Fall
Rue Frontenac, an online publication started by the locked-out staff of Le Journal de Montréal, is coming out with a print version this fall.
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Chinese Student Association to Launch Newspaper
Concordia University’s media outlets will soon be trilingual, as the Concordia Chinese Student Association has announced plans to launch the school’s first Chinese-language newspaper.
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NewsMontreal Police Formed Partnership With Canadian Army
In the aftermath of the rioting that occurred in Montreal North in 2008, the Montreal Police consulted with the Canadian Forces to learn the army’s urban warfare tactics.
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La Rentrée
It’s called la rentrée in France, where university students are attending classes in higher numbers than last year. Although French education is virtually free, a study published last month by a French student union found that financial pressures on students decrease their chances of success.
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NewsStudents Fight Census Ban
Montreal students are uniting in opposition to the federal government’s forthcoming ban of the mandatory long-form census.
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NewsSex and Sensibility
On Sept. 1, a coalition of health and women’s groups called for the provincial government to implement a comprehensive sex education course in Quebec high schools after new findings suggested the rates of sexually transmitted infections have skyrocketed among youth since the Ministry of Education stopped offering classes in 2001.
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News‘Peanuts’
The union of Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia ratified its first collective agreement with the university on Aug. 31, guaranteeing base salaries for Concordia TAs and RAs and solidifying the job descriptions of all three levels of TAs.
