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OpinionsWatching the Grass Grow
There was a time when I believed that Canada would beat the states in the race to legalize weed. Flash forward to 2015 and the world looks a whole lot stranger.
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OpinionsConcordia Political Science Department’s Flanagan Fuck Up
Flanagan is no stranger to controversy. In 2010, he advocated for the assassination of Julian Assange. In 2013 he was removed from his teaching post and fired as commentator for the CBC and The Globe and Mail, after comments he made regarding child pornography went viral.
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OpinionsJaywalking Through a Misguided System
The traffic light count-downer, along with an authoritative palm, informs you that you have five seconds to complete your traversal. As you make it across the road just as the time expires, the law apprehends you.
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OpinionsLocked on the 105
Well, tonight I called the cops on a bus driver. Yes. The driver of the 105, bus number 22-288, departing from Concordia’s Loyola campus, held me captive on his bus at my stop.
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OpinionsEditorial: Trans Rights Are Moving Too Slow For Comfort
The heavily bureaucratic process involved in legally changing one’s gender is a daunting task.
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OpinionsIs Quebec’s De-radicalization Centre Fit For Purpose?
Montreal’s municipal authority has taken it upon itself to stop radicalization in its tracks, but will Mayor Denis Coderre’s radicalization “prevention centre” be able to serve its intended purpose?
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Sacrifices of the Student Strike
‘Tis the season for student strikes. Whether students are driven by a “Je me souviens” nostalgia for the Maple Spring that is innate to their Québécois identities or the government’s austerity policies are weighing on their fabricated economic authority, the time has come for student associations to support or oppose a strike against austerity.
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OpinionsThe Social Strike of 2015 and Why You Should Care
The current budget cuts imposed by the neo-liberal government are jeopardizing the social measures that allow for a land of equal opportunities, one where there is an actual possibility of upward social mobility.
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OpinionsEditorial: Philosophy Students Vote to Censor Journalists
Yesterday evening, two journalists from the student press were called out for doing their job.
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OpinionsGrowing Pains in a Growth-Stunting Family
If the expression “you’re only as sick as your secrets” could be applied to one category of people, it would most definitely be family. Since the breakdown of the classic nuclear family circa 1950s white suburbia, the meaning of that word has changed.
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