Liberal MP addresses economic and international issues
"We will have a question period, not an answer period, just like in the House of Commons," opened Deputy Prime Minister John Manley before an audience of 150 people in Leacock 219 Friday. Manley's comment alluded to his visit a year ago, when a large media presence coupled with a student's question on the monarchy led to a controversial remark in favour of abolishing Canada's monarchy.
Choy stresses the importance of 'jibing'; councillors focus on democracy
After giving the five remaining executives two weeks to prove that they could handle the presidential responsibilities, Students' Society councillors voted to hold a by-election as soon as a new fall election period could be organized. Some councillors, such as Arts representative John Bowden, expressed that their respective faculties had mandated them to support a by-election.
In northern Nigeria on Thursday morning, a woman named Amina Lawal was given the best news of her life. After several appeals, Lawal was acquitted of having a child while divorced, a violation of Sharia, or Islamic law, that is enforced in some Nigerian states.
An in-depth look at the federal Liberals
From September 19 to 21, the Liberal Party of Canada elected delegates to the November convention that will choose between Paul Martin and Sheila Copps for the party's leadership. September 19 was reserved for the election of delegates from school clubs and women's clubs.
Negotiations have stalled between the University and the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association, a union representing most non-academic staff. At a September 9 meeting, the University proposed measures that MUNACA members say question their productivity and seek to increase working hours and days without providing monetary compensation.
Elections were held yesterday for all executive positions of the McGill International Student Network, one week after five of the six MISN executives resigned. Vice-President Events Peter Abou-Jaoudé was the only executive who did not resign. He said he disapproved of the unexpected manner in which the other executives departed.
"It's not all about the music' was the sentiment at Pop Montreal's "Mixing Pop and Politics" conference, held Friday and Saturday at Sala Rossa. With films, lectures, and question periods, the conference addressed issues such as how musicians today are getting their messages heard, the importance of music in struggles of human rights, and the mainstream media's aversion to politically-charged music.
The memory of sea slugs The Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre at the Montreal Neurological Institute filled up quickly on September 24 for a lecture by 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate Dr. Eric Kandel. The capacity crowd was eager to hear what the man with the big red bow tie had to say.
In "High faculty turnover nearing" (September 23), the president of the Computer Science Undergraduate Society was wrongly paraphrased with the emotion of worry, due to an editing error. Only five of the MISN executives resigned, not all six as reported in the "MISN executives resign" (September 23).