Opinions
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OpinionsSacrifices 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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OpinionsSixteen Bars Against the Tar Sands
Local rappers, slam poets and activists will be performing original verses against the tar sands, and donations will go towards Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia Against Pipelines, an environmental activist group in Ontario.
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OpinionsFood for Thought: Why Are Student Jobs So Undignified?
As he looked over my CV he began to read aloud the list of films I had previously directed for school and independently. “Les etudiants, un journal intime,” he read. My Student Strike. “Ah, so you’re a socialist,” he concluded.
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OpinionsA Salvia Breakthrough: My First Trip
It was a warm sunny day, the summer before my friends and I would leave for college. We borrowed my parent’s van, drove down to a head shop in Toronto and bought a gram of 20x salvia extract, a bong and a jet lighter. *
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Editorial: Concordia Needs to Stand With the MSA
TVA contacted Concordia, questioning the presence of works written by controversial Islamic figures in the Muslim Students Association’s library, after a reporter and a film crew barged into the MSA office and harassed the students there. Instead of standing by their students, Concordia administrators chose to take those claims seriously and investigate the matter.
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OpinionsAccessibilize Montreal Claims the STM Has an Institutionalized Culture of Ableism
Accessibilize Montreal campaigners questioned STM board members on whether the transport society had a corporate policy of ableism at an open board meeting on Wednesday night.
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OpinionsEditorial: The Sexual Assault Centre Needs More From Concordia
Nearly a year and a half after Concordia’s Sexual Assault Resource Centre was finally established on campus, it’s lacking resources of its own.
