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Opinions
Canada Needs Electoral Reform
Canada’s plurality-vote electoral system, colloquially known as “first past the post,” is broken. Depending on which party forms government after Oct. 19, this federal election may well be the last to use this antiquated way of electing Members of Parliament.
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Nah’msayin?
I’ve eaten a full circle of pizza before. Yeah, I admit it. Sometimes when you play soccer for eight straight hours at Jeanne Mance park, you need a beautifully crafted carbo-load with cheese to prevent yourself from passing out.
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Just Chill Out
Your chest tightens. You try to catch your breath but find yourself gasping for air. You grow anxious as your tongue turns to cotton. Your heart pounds. Your brain tricks you into thinking the worst.
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Behind the Scenes of ASFA’s Launch Week
As an international student, I promise myself to live every experience that university has to offer me—one of them being “Frosh Week.”
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Just Shut The Fuck Up
This week, I betrayed friends. I was wrong, and stubborn about it. I was not an ally, and I am deeply remorseful.
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On Oct. 19, Canadians Need to Vote for a Universal Childcare Program
Most undergraduate students probably don’t consider affordable childcare to be a top issue in this federal election campaign. Faced with a challenging labour market, out-of-control housing prices and unstable employment, we are, on average, taking longer to finish school, enter into established relationships and have children of our own.
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Editorial: No Question, a TA is a TA
TRAC’s record is slowly straightening out. Led by a new executive team—featuring some familiar faces—the Teaching and Research Assistants of Concordia held its first general assembly of the year on Wednesday.
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Behind the Scenes of ASFA’s Launch Week
I naively applied to be a Launch leader, not really knowing what the job entailed, but thought it would be a great opportunity to meet new people and have some fun. What resulted was a chaotic week filled with many highs and lows, which felt more like a high school experience than a university orientation.
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Nah’msayin: These Fucking Bottle Dinguses Better Watch the Fuck Out
These fucking haughty clerks will glower from behind their shitty little countertops, suddenly sitting atop porcelain thrones of judgment, and let me nicely sort and lay out all my bottles and cans before them, before saying, really spitting, at me that, “No, no, absolutely we do not take your bottles, it is just too difficult, too much work for me, no incentive for me, why don’t you just take them somewhere else.”