Opinions
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Opinions
Democratizing Decision-Making at the CSU
An unsustainable structure means that power dynamics are highly unequal, and certain voices are prioritized over others. In order to make the CSU sustainable, those hierarchies need to be flattened and power needs to be distributed horizontally.
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Editorial: A Year in Review for the CSU
It’s been a tumultuous year at our university, particularly in the realm of student politics. The Concordia Student Union has pushed some important initiatives for which they should be commended—but this academic year wasn’t all rainbows and unicorns—or rather, it wasn’t all daycares and housing projects.
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Selective Mourning: Terror and the Media Across the World
When the bombings in Paris gripped the hearts of so many, the bombing in Lebanon, occurring the day before, flew under the radar. Over the past several months, in fact, Iraq, Mali, Pakistan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and the Ivory Coast all have been sites of attacks. Yet little is known about those tragedies.
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Editorial: Act Together Can Lead the Way Forward
It’s that time of the year again. Here are The Link’s picks for the CSU election in 2016.
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Concordia Needs to Represent Indigenous People
A petition is currently circulating online demanding a stronger commitment from President Alan Shepard and Provost Benoit-Antoine Bacon to the indigenous community at Concordia University.We as Concordians need to support the indigenous people in our communities.
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Who Do We Trust?
What is true for individuals tends also to be true for society in general. That is why even one case of police brutality is too many. It chokes the life out of the living, breathing faith that, as human beings, we have certain fundamental and inalienable rights regardless of merit.
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Nahm’sayin?
I’m not trying to hate on people who want to improve themselves. I’m just exhausted and nauseated from wrestling with the fact that the one lane to being considered healthy in Western culture seems to be buying $10 bottles of organic juice and never skipping leg day.
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Editorial: Concordia, Help Your International Students With Housing
If the school is already referring international students to a student- run housing organization for residence issues, then Concordia should be funding this organization. With more money for resources, employment, outreach to students and information, HOJO will be able to go beyond what they are doing now to help create a less exploitative city for international students.
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Cats Against Catcalling
Since our schools, the police and even the public have failed us time and time again, survivors have been forced to create a new support group online that reaches way beyond any borders or social demographic.
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Lessons from a Successful Anti-Police Brutality Demonstration in Montreal
The Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP) annual march against police brutality, for the first time in years, actually finished without being subjected to massive police violence.