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Locked on the 105
Well, tonight I called the cops on a bus driver. Yes. The driver of the 105, bus number 22-288, departing from Concordia’s Loyola campus, held me captive on his bus at my stop.
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Editorial: Trans Rights Are Moving Too Slow For Comfort
The heavily bureaucratic process involved in legally changing one’s gender is a daunting task.
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Is Quebec’s De-radicalization Centre Fit For Purpose?
Montreal’s municipal authority has taken it upon itself to stop radicalization in its tracks, but will Mayor Denis Coderre’s radicalization “prevention centre” be able to serve its intended purpose?
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Sacrifices 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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The 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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Editorial: 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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Growing 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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Sixteen 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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Food 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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A 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. *