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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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NewsFighting 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.
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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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