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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 2024 | VOL. 44 | ISSUE 7
OPINION From PTA to GPA: Sharing McGill campus with a parent PG. 6
Published by the SPT, a student society of McGill University
FEATURE Figuring Yourself Out PGS. 8-9
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OFF THE BOARD Activism must be shaped beyond spectacle PG. 5
Flip to page 16 for a comic by Zoe Lee: McGull University: “McMed to Adams Auditorum”
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Mohawk Mothers bring legal battle with McGill to Supreme Court of Canada
Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera hope to reinstate panel of archaeologists in search for unmarked graves Vic Project at the former Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH). infrastructures (SQI). During the 1950s and 1960s, the RVH’s Fabienne de Cartier News Editor
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n Oct. 15, the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) filed a motion with the Supreme Court of Canada seeking an independent investigation into possible unmarked graves at the site of McGill’s New
“We stand in front of the Supreme Court of Canada facing a political violation by the people of Canada that we wish to discuss so that we may get justice,” said Mohawk Mother Kahentinetha at a press conference outside the Court in Ottawa. McGill’s New Vic Project, a plan to expand the downtown campus, will occupy 15 per cent of the former RVH site, the rest of which is managed by the Société québécoise des
Allan Memorial Institute was one of many sites across North America on which the CIA conducted MK-ULTRA mind control and chemical interrogation experiments. The Mohawk Mothers believe that the site houses both ancestral burials that predate colonization and unmarked graves from the CIA’s experiments, which they allege disproportionately targeted Indigenous peoples. PG. 3
Tokyo Police Club EDITORIAL Student protest is meant to disrupt the status quo says a final “au revoir” to Montreal ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The Canadian band stops at Théâtre Beanfield for their farewell tour Isobel Bray Contributor
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n Jan. 23, Canadian indie rock band Tokyo Police Club (TPC) announced their farewell tour, and on Oct. 12, they played for the last time in Montreal, a city with
strong ties to their beginnings as a band. The news of their breakup was met with overwhelming support from fans. Hailing from Newmarket, Ontario, high school friends Dave Monks (lead vocals and guitar), Graham Wright (keyboard and guitar), Josh Hook (guitar), and Greg Alsop
(percussion) formed TPC in 2005. Nearly 20 years later, the band has released eight albums and captured the hearts of countless fans. Before TPC could say their goodbyes to Montreal, the Toronto-based indie rock band Born Ruffians opened with an energetic set. PG. 14
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n anticipation of heightened tensions on Oct. 7, the McGill administration preemptively closed campus, silencing student protest and increasing policing. The university moved classes online and required students to show identification at security checkpoints, with some
students reporting that they were denied entry into academic buildings despite valid credentials. Fences restricted access to certain entrances, and vague emails from the administration fueled the confusion. While McGill claimed to be protecting its campus, its disproportionate response to student democracy by using armed officers and tear gas, demonstrates a prioritization
of property and image over addressing violence and genocide. On the afternoon of Oct. 7, students in Montreal protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine were met by over 80 officers from the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), more than a dozen officers from the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), and campus PG. 5 security.