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NewsHundreds Protest in Montreal in Solidarity With Standing Rock
Behind a row of Indigenous drummers and throat singers, around 700 people protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Montreal on Monday afternoon. They had gathered to show solidarity with the Indigenous-led struggle.
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NewsMillion Mask March Protests Mass-Surveillance
Becky Calabia didn’t ask for a minute of silence to honour the late activist Jean Léger, but he still was on everyone’s mind at this year’s Million Mask March in downtown Montreal on Saturday.
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NewsConcordia Conference Urges Transition Away From Oil and Gas
Freda Huson’s keynote presentation on Saturday headlined Sustainable Concordia’s Transitions Conference, an array of presentations advocating society’s transition away from industrial energy.
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NewsPut All Your Eggs (and Sperm) in One Basket
Panelist at McGill University on Nov. 2 set the stage on why it is of such vital importance that we make the identities of sperm and egg donors accessible to their “offspring.”
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NewsConcordia Senate Update
Also announced at Senate was a master plan to renovate current buildings at the school. This will be done in order to increase the flexibility of school spaces to accommodate the increasing number of students and staff, according to Michel Nadeau, Associate Vice-President of Facilities Management.
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NewsThe Foundation of the Hive Café
In order to become sustainable, the Hive Café raised food prices and cut wages. Prices for food items made in house increased by roughly ten per cent. Prices for food brought in from outside increased by about 20 per cent. All wages were cut.
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NewsConcordia Administration Keeping It Quiet on Rumoured Tuition Hikes
For deregulated programs, Concordia’s Board of Governors has the final say on how much tuition costs. In June, the Board, comprised of university administration, faculty, students, and external community members, voted to raise tuition for these majors by 1.5 per cent to match the increase Quebec put on regulated programs this year. Now, there are rumours that beginning in 2017-18 future international students in deregulated programs will be forced to pay even higher fees.
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NewsPublic Panel on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Held in Montreal
The United Nations Association of Canada organized a public panel to discuss a set of Sustainable Development Goals and how Canada can help accomplish these by 2030, on Nov. 4 in the OACI building on Robert Bourassa Blvd.
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NewsClimate Activists Occupy Transport Minister’s Office
Montreal climate activists occupied Marc Garneau’s constituency office in downtown Montreal on Friday morning, calling for the Canadian Transport Minister to publicly denounce the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
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NewsDans La Rue Leads the Demand for Free Education
About a hundred students gathered to protest for free education at Square Victoria park downtown this Wednesday. The protest was organized by Dans la Rue Montreal, in support of the Canadian Federation of of Students who organized protests pushing for free education all around Canada in 42 other campuses and in 28 different cities, on the same day.
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