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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 2024 | VOL. 44 | ISSUE 6
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McGill student contingent joins Montreal-wide protest demanding justice for Palestine
Demonstrators expressed desire for divestment, concerns about increased security at McGill ty’s Roddick Gates on Oct. 5. The demonstrators formed the Sainte-Catherine Ouest, the protest moved down Boulevard Mairin Burke Staff Writer
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crowd of approximately 150 McGill community members chanted, “McGill, McGill, you can’t hide! We charge you with genocide!” outside the universi-
McGill student contingent attending the International Day of Action march and rally organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)’s Montreal branch. Beginning at Roddick Gates, the group marched to the Place des Arts, where it met up with the larger PYM protest. After several speakers addressed the crowd on the corner of Rue Saint-Urbain and Rue
René-Lévesque toward the Montreal Consulate of Israel. While the PYM march was meant to mark one year of the Israeli state’s genocide that has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, McGill community members aimed in particular to address the university’s response to pro-Palestinian activism on campus. PG. 2
Hundreds rally at Montreal’s EDITORIAL As climate crises reach “Every Child Matters” march an unprecedented scale, Canada The Mohawk Mothers held vigil at New Vic needs to rethink eco-justice NEWS
site before joining the demonstration Fabienne de Cartier News Editor
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undreds called out “Land back!” and “No justice, no peace!” at Montreal’s Every Child Matters March on Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The rally, which began at
the Sir George-Étienne Cartier Monument and ended at Place du Canada, honoured the children killed in and the survivors of Canada’s residential schools, as well as their families. The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal and the David Suzuki Foundation organized the event with help from POP Montreal
and Resource Movement.. Before beginning the walk, Nakuset, the executive director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, invited several speakers to address the crowd. Kevin Deer, a Faithkeeper at the Mohawk Trail Longhouse, led a tobacco-burning ceremony and gave the opening speech. PG. 2
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he climate crisis in Canada is worsening every year. In 2023, wildfires burned six times their historical average, polluting Montreal’s air quality to the lowest level in the world for two
days. In 2024, 32,000 hectares of Jasper National Park burned down, rapidly eliminating critical local biodiversity and natural ecosystems. Across all of northern Canada, the permafrost is melting, destroying the ecosystems which sustain local Indigenous communities. In August, Montreal
received more rainfall than it had in 100 years due to Hurricane Debby, causing flooding and the most costly damage in the city’s history. Meanwhile, as 2023 was revealed as the hottest year on global record, studies revealed Canada as the fastest-warming country in PG. 5 the world.