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TUESDAY, MARCH 25 2025 | VOL. 44 | ISSUE 23
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Addressing perinatal mental health disparities among immigrant parents in Canada PG. 10
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Change Course’s National Day of Action inspires demonstrations across Canadian universities
Divest McGill protests RBC’s fossil fuel investments
Ella Paulin Managing Editor
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n March 20, Divest McGill, Climate Justice Montreal, and other local climate activist organizations held a protest as part of Change Course’s National Day of Action, demanding that Canada’s “Big Five” banks remove their presence on Canadian campuses until they meet several conditions.
Among these are the cancellation of finances for pipelines like the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT), a commitment to avoid financing future fossil fuel projects, and a promise to gain free, prior, and informed consent from Indigenous groups before any future financing decisions concerning resource extraction. The protest, which gathered several dozen people, departed from the Roddick Gates at 4:30 p.m. and travelled along Boulevard Robert-Bourassa until reaching
McGill, it shouldn’t take bodies to believe Indigenous voices EDITORIAL
The Tribune Editorial Board
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uring the 2023 provincial election, Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative (PC) government refused to support a search of the Prairie Green landfill, which local police suspected contained the remains of several missing Indigenous women. This week, investigators found remains of Marcedes Myran on the site, proving that the calls for an investigation from Indigenous activists and families of victims were not only justified, but that government inaction actively obstructed justice. The PC’s opposition to conducting the search was not a logistical decision as much as it was a demonstration of whose
lives the PC government deems worthy of recovery, and of whose suffering the state is willing to dismiss. The PC government’s justification—that “for health and safety reasons, the answer on the landfill dig has to be no”—makes their priorities clear. The well-being of the families forced to grieve without closure was not a factor in their chosen course of action, nor was the mental health toll of forcing Indigenous communities to fight for the dignity of their lost loved ones. If health and safety were a genuine priority of the PC government, as they have claimed, not only would the appropriate levels of support and involvement be granted to Myran’s case, but action would be taken toward protecting Indigenous women while PG. 5 they are still alive.
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the Montreal headquarters of the Royal Bank of Canada PG. 4 (RBC). There, protestors played music, chanted, and wrote messages in chalk on the sidewalk as RBC employees and clients walked around them to make their way to their cars or offices. Nicola Chevallier, a representative from Climate Justice Montreal, spoke to The Tribune about the importance of calling out the environmentally harmful actions of banks like RBC. PG. 3
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Security’s failure to prevent sexual harassment in McLennan-Redpath, and the need for an active bystander culture Mairin Burke News Editor
Content warning: Sexual violence, discrimination, stalking
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n January 2020, McGill student Elizabeth* settled into Redpath Library’s Cyberthèque around 6 p.m., across from an unfamiliar man. Around 10:30 p.m., he began looking at her repeatedly, bumping his foot against hers. She moved her chair away to avoid the contact. As closing time was announced over the loudspeakers, the man began mumbling at Elizabeth with a distressed, urgent expression. She asked him what was wrong, but he continued to mutter, so she moved closer to hear him. He was
attempting to make small talk. Elizabeth didn’t want to chat, but also didn’t want to be rude. So, when he began to ask Elizabeth about her program and what she had been working on, she answered. When she asked reciprocal questions, he said he was a “graduate,” but deflected her other inquiries, including what his name was. This set off Elizabeth’s alarm bells, and she backed away. Immediately, the man began asking questions about where Elizabeth lived, who she lived with, and how she would get home. He called her “very pretty.” Elizabeth felt that the man had purposefully waited for the library to start closing before making an advance. She told him she was in a relationship, worried he might “become irate PGS.8-9 or violent” if she rejected him.