Special Issue
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Special IssueThe Maple Spring Revisited
Of all the things I witnessed during the 2012 student strike, the most powerful image I can recall comes from the March 22 rally.
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Special IssueAgainst the Web
“Less than 10 per cent of what the Internet is used for is good,” declared my professor of European history one morning, as students stared one another down across the picket lines of the Maple Spring.
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Special IssueDon’t Believe Everything You Read
Newspaper ad revenues are plummeting, faster than anyone predicted.
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Special IssueWho Watches the Watchers?
In schools and workplaces, the concept of “if you see something, say something” is often employed to encourage transparency about peer misconduct.
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Fringe ArtsMerging Montreal Mainstays
Maica Mia was originally the brainchild of Maica Armata and Johnny Paradise, but that brainchild is about to get a sibling.
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Good Vibes All Around
When POP Montreal’s founder Dan Seligman calls you “possibly the greatest band in the world,” you know you have something good going.
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Fringe ArtsOpaque Pop Melancholy
It comes to you as if in a dream, the faint glimmer of manipulated piano brushing past as you sink deeper into the blackness. You’ll Never Get to Heaven emits ambient melancholy, remnants of pop vocals embedding themselves in murky haze and crackle.
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Math Blasters
Math in itself may not be something to look forward to. Math rock, however, is a different story.
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Fringe ArtsWhat You Really, Really Want
If you were alive in the ’90s, you know who the Spice Girls are—they were inescapable.
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Two Saxxy Gentlemen
Jazz might be the last genre you’d expect to see at POP Montreal. After all, some might say it’s best reserved for middle-aged couples sipping wine in tasteful-yet-stuffy establishments, not for the unwashed youth at one of the city’s biggest indie festivals. Saxsyndrum is challenging the status quo by merging electro dance music with sweet saxophone licks to revitalize jazz in a whole new way.
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