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  Across Borders, Student Groups Unite Against Fossil Fuels

  Geoffrey Vendeville – Updated February 11, 2014 at 8:50am

  When experts from around the country arrived at McGill University on Feb. 7 for a conference on oil, energy and Canada’s future, they found the doors were locked.

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  Soil and Herbs Above Our Heads

  Verity Stevenson – Updated February 11, 2014 at 8:48am

  As university students, sunlight is hard to come by this time of year. The sun rising earlier and setting later now than during the summer months is worsened by the fact that we’re trapped indoors during daylight hours due to school and perhaps work.

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  Welcome to the Sprawl

  Michael Wrobel – Updated February 11, 2014 at 8:21am

  For Lissa Marcotte, there’s truth in the marketing slogan “La vie est belle à Mirabel.” In this suburban municipality on the northern periphery of the Montreal metropolitan region, where suburban comfort meets the tranquility of farm country, life is good—but it comes with an environmental cost.

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  Towards a Greener Concordia

  Colin Harris – Published February 11, 2014

  At an institution as big as Concordia, in order to be truly “sustainable,” long-term efforts must come from all corners of the university.

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  Divest Now

  Aneil Prasad – Published February 11, 2014

  Divestment. It’s the talk of the town, the word on the street. It’s the subject of workshops, the screen print on gym shirts, and the latest petition making the rounds. What’s all the fuss about this newest addition to our vocabulary?

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  How To Read The Web

  Verity Stevenson – Updated January 21, 2014 at 8:37am

  Programming languages make up the Matrix that is behind most new technologies.

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  A Universal Language

  Yacine Bouhali – Updated January 21, 2014 at 8:33am

  The world is home to about 6,500 spoken languages.

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  Bienvenue à la classe d’accueil

  Jonathan Summers – Updated January 21, 2014 at 8:26am

  Picture a class of children each from a different corner of the globe. Some have been in the country for a few weeks, others several months. There may be two or three from one country or another but only one speaks Spanish, one Arabic, one Ewondo…

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  Parlez-Vouz English?

  Verity Stevenson – Updated January 21, 2014 at 8:24am

  With the job market’s consistently increasing competitiveness and fast pace, it feels like the further from the status quo our resumes are, the better our opportunities.

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  Bringing Down Dividing Barriers

  Claudia Pornaro – Updated January 21, 2014 at 8:21am

  As I sat in my Intro to Psychology class last semester, I heard the professor say the words that best described my frustration with living in Quebec.