Opinions
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Opinions
My sweaty hands love social distancing
COVID-19 or not, it’s best for both of us if we don’t shake hands.
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Opinions
The tweet that started an Iranian movement against sexual violence
It was a summer night in 2017, a few months after I had immigrated to Canada. I was waiting in front of a hotel in Toronto to interview an Iranian artist.
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Editorial: Who’s controlling you?
It’s always important to examine the society around us and gaze upon normalized structures and systems with a critical eye.
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The biggest lesson I learned this semester? Coming to terms with internalized capitalism
The most eye-opening thing I’ve learned this semester was coming to terms with how deeply I have internalized a capitalist mindset, in regards to what it means to succeed in university and in everyday life. This mindset that I have blindly believed equates my worth with my daily levels of productivity.
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Editorial: The CAQ Christmas plan is unfair and hypocritical
In Legault’s Quebec, only Christians get special exemptions.
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Podcasts offer the intimacy that journalism lacks
A few months ago, I was making my bed while listening to the BBC’s Global News Podcast. A reporter began a story describing the effects of the pandemic in India. The numbers horrified me, but it was hard for me to truly understand what they represented.
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Editorial: Students deserve better
The CSU’s by-election and town hall highlight weaknesses in Concordia’s handling of the pandemic
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Editorial: Montreal wrong to spurn calls to defund the police
Black people deserve more. Indigenous people deserve more. Trans people, people with disabilities, people with mental illness, People of Colour, sex workers, and immigrants deserve more. Lives are being lost, and Plante’s administration is funnelling millions of dollars into the pockets of the institution killing the people we’ve been demanding be protected.
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Editorial: Beyond time for real change
The U.S. election reminds us of the need to call out performative politics and demand transformational change.