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Student activism is a necessary function of the modern university. Though the history of student-led demonstrations can be traced all the way back to medieval universities in the 15th century, the ...
In 1969, at the ironically named Second Congress to Unite Women, co-founder and then president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Betty Friedan campaigned for women to enter “into the ...
The shortage of mental health services is an international health crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic during its ensuing years of social distancing and self-isolation. The ...
It’s not often that Montreal theatres, even independent ones who have significantly more control over their programming, feature Chinese films in their roster. Rarer still are there any Chinese films ...
Note: Faculty and staff who wish to sign on to this letter may do so using this Google Form. We, faculty and staff at McGill University, endorse the Undergraduate Student Union’s recent adoption of ...
On January 15, the Canadian government enacted a federal mandate stating that all cross-border essential workers must show proof of vaccination at their port of entry in order to bypass 14-day ...
In a world grappling with the urgent need to combat climate change, the debate surrounding nuclear power remains a disputable and often misunderstood topic. Nuclear power has been praised as an ...
The murder of George Floyd in 2020 by two Minneapolis police officers sparked a wave of protests across Canada and around the world. The outcry from protestors demanded that municipal governments ...
Scientists and public health experts are sounding the alarm about the broad and intensifying consequences of extreme wildfires. “Smoke knows no political boundaries — and neither does fire,” said ...
Back in January of 2020, I wrote an article dedicated to the new school semester, naively detailing what was at the time the lesser explored phenomenon of information fatigue. I included the ...
carbon — just one atom thick — is over 200 times stronger than steel, transparent, incredibly flexible, and a perfect conductor of heat and electricity. Now, according to a new Nature article, it ...
Like most democratic republics, Kenya’s constitution contains a clause denoting the freedom of expression. Chapter Four in the Kenyan Bill of Rights states that “every person has the right to freedom ...