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OpinionsEditorial: Concordia’s Food Contract Shows Improvements, But Still Isn’t What We Need
Students wanted a refund; instead they got some free juice and snacks, and by May 31, 2002, Sodexho was out of the Concordia food-providing business, replaced by another multinational corporation: Chartwells. What followed was 13 years of uninspiring menus that were actually punishment for students with dietary restrictions.
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OpinionsPregnancy: Horror Incarnate
I feel a total lack of maternal instinct and the idea of gestating something feels like a betrayal to myself, like purposefully introducing a parasite into a part of me that I have been categorized by all my life.
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OpinionsPolice Violates Student Journalist’s Rights
So it finally happened. After covering dozens of Montreal protests with—relatively—little incident for The Link and 99% Media, I was detained on the evening of July 24 by a police officer and given a ticket under Article 500.1 of Quebec’s Highway Safety Code, for a sum of $504.
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OpinionsI Wanna Walk Around Town in a Skirt Without Being Fucking Gawked At
I think silk was the first thing I loved.
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OpinionsAusterity is a Fiction
A Concordia student recognizes Ontario’s Common Sense Revolution in current Quebec austerity politics.
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If You Don’t Like My Hairy Legs, Go Fuck Yourself
It’s not always easy to be hairy with a uterus.
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The Future is Clear (of Jobs)
Gainful employment — that’s why we’re putting ourselves through the sleepless nights and sleep-inducing lectures in pursuit of a higher education. When someone announces that they are pursuing a degree in the arts, inevitably their declaration will be met with a chorus of: “But what are going to do when you graduate?”
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Kettled and Ticketed Under P-6
The dark irony between police officers, who demand libre négo [with the state], suppressing the right to freedom of assembly of workers and students who oppose austerity–on International Workers’ Day–is poignant in the extreme.
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I Backpacked Through Cuba Without Airbnb Reservations
Last month my friend and I backpacked from the easternmost tip of Cuba inland and beyond Havana, and back, with no travel plans nor any reservations. And we did just fine. Perhaps Americans are afraid of being stranded upon the Bay of No-Hospitality— naturally they want to make reservations this time.
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