McGill Tribune Students leaving class for OAP last Thursday saw Montreal’s version of Niagra Falls when a burst water main on Docteur Penfield sent torrents of water down McTavish and into downtown Montreal (News: “McTavish Under Water,” p. 3). While many students enjoyed frolicking in Le Fleuve McTavish, the flood[Read More…]
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My CSIS and desist
My dad keeps emailing me a link to apply to be an Intelligence Officer in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Since moving 4,000 kilometres away from my home town and leaving frequent face-time with him behind, what was once a playful career pitch over martinis has now become a quasi-regular[Read More…]
September 11 is not a political tool
McGill Tribune The Harper government’s decision to reintroduce two controversial clauses of the Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-36) in the House of Commons this past week is no small coincidence. At a time when the 2001 attacks on the United States are on everyone’s mind, and every media source features news[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor
Dear Mr. Kreitner, I was disappointed to read your claim that “the new SSMU team […] would ideally have us all joining MUNACA in its strike for fairer pay, and thus would have us miss classes until whenever the disagreement is resolved” [“Crossing the line,” September 7]. The SSMU Executive[Read More…]
Neon Indian: Era Extraña
Nowadays, music genres rise and fall in popularity on a yearly, if not monthly, basis. There was a time when Texas’ Neon Indian was the vanguard of Extraña” cuts through the synth haze of previous tracks with a spacious and grandiose delivery. Yet these few tracks all share a[Read More…]
American League East
1st—Boston Red Sox: A fantastic offseason for the Red Sox has given good reason for the Fenway faithful to be optimistic. Additions Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez give the lineup the punch that it needs to win the AL East. Crawford provides the game changing speed at the top of[Read More…]
Student tries beer
After finally trying beer for the first time this past week, freshman Steven Karp has officially announced his plans to abandon his intentions of going to med school to become a doctor. Karp said that during recent weeks of “experimentation” with beer, he has decided that drinking and partying is[Read More…]
U0 student worried about Africa after Poli Sci class
After finally attending a lecture for POLI 227: Developing Worlds, Rachel Birkwire, a U0 student from “Toronto” (Oakville), said she is “actually really worried” about the current situation in Africa. Though she couldn’t be any more specific about which situation she was referring to, Birkwire said she thinks “we actually[Read More…]
No room for brocism
The Brobune wants to talk about some of the stizzle in Deputy Brovost (Student Life and Ballin’) Gorton Pendelson’s recent Diversity Survey. One thing that sucks is that whole thing about the “underrepresentation of and discrimination towards the bro community at McGill.” Dude, what the frick, guy? Even though there[Read More…]
After lofty promises were made during this year’s election campaign period, Adam Russell, next year’s incoming Students’ Society president has vowed to lead the SSMU with “so much transparency that ‘you won’t even see me.’” Russell, a U7 earth and planetary sciences student, said he is tired of students’ general[Read More…]