Opinions
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OpinionsThe Cost of Celebrating Montreal’s 375th
The scope of the projects is vast, ranging from an expansion to Quartier des Spectacles to renovations for St. Joseph’s Oratory. The practicality of these splurges is questionable at best. How will the city and its residents directly benefit, and how will our economy fare after shelling out tons of cash for projects that will hurt local merchants while being built?
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OpinionsCarbon Taxes and Economic Myths
The rhetoric resurfaced recently, illustrating that consensus on a carbon price lays unresolved.
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OpinionsA Response to the Montreal Gazette
Seidman takes the angle that Jewish students at McGill University feel The Daily, one of the student newspapers, is thwarting their efforts to speak out about how the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement against Israel makes them uncomfortable. Tensions escalated, she writes, after The Daily published a satirical piece titled, “White tears increase on campus,” which pokes fun at the sensitivity of white people towards confronting their own racial privilege.
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OpinionsEditorial: Divest Properly, Divest Now
The Link is in favour of 100 per cent divestment from fossil fuels.
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OpinionsIs Your Unpaid Internship Illegal?
Not all unpaid work can be legally called an internship. Sometimes, it is just unpaid work, and that violates the labour code.
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OpinionsUnderstanding Police Militarization in Montreal
Technology and tactics derived from the War on Terror shouldn’t be used on protesters and small-time criminals.
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OpinionsJustin Trudeau Is No Environmentalist
Does Trudeau actually care about meeting targets against climate change, or is he just expanding the fossil fuel industry so that the Liberal government can take a cut of the profit using a carbon tax?
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OpinionsEditorial: Is Concordia Truly a Fair Trade Campus?
While The Link supports fair trade initiatives from Concordia, we think promoting our fair trade campus status, and hosting a Fair Trade Campus Week this early, is misleading.
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OpinionsDealing with Islamophobia
Islamophobia is based on people’s misconceptions and misunderstandings, and it intensifies to the point that they genuinely hate a religion they know nothing about.
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