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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 2025 | VOL. 45 | ISSUE 4
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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NEWS
Students from McGill and Concordia and community members unite at McGill’s Y-intersection to hold a candlelit vigil organized by SPHR in honour of the thousands of Palestinians killed in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. (Armen Erzingatzian / The Tribune)
SPHR hosts vigil for Gaza at Y-intersection
Students mourn Palestinian lives lost to Israel’s genocide and continue to call for divestment
Helene Saleska News Editor
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n Sept. 15, a group of approximately 50 McGill and Concordia students and community members gathered at McGill’s Y-intersection for a “Vigil for Gaza” organized by Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance
at McGill (SPHR). Students raised Palestinian flags around the area as the sun set. Around 6:45 p.m., a student with a microphone began the chant, “We will honour all our martyrs,” which the audience promptly picked up. Students lit candles as it got dark. A representative from SPHR began by speaking about the current situation for people in Gaza.
“We are on day 710 of this genocide,” they stated. “There have been almost 200,000 martyrs. But numbers do no justice to each martyr, each with name, a family, with a home, and with hopes and dreams. [....] Their graves are not marked by tombstones, but by the rubble of their homes.” “McGill is responsible for every penny it invests in this PG. 2 genocide,” they said.
Cher Chez Gautier: Milton- NEWS Queer McGill fights transphobia in counter-protest Parc’s next community initiative FEATURE
Reviving a historical landmark to reclaim public space
Asher Kui News Editor
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ou pass by this intersection daily— whether on a BIXI bike back to your Plateau apartment, or on your stream of grocery shopping activities at Metro and Dollarama in the Complexe La Cité. Yet it rarely registers in your memory, silently blending into your daily routine. Where is it? On av. du Parc, coin de la rue Milton, are the premises of what used to be Chez Gautier. Originally a fur trading store, it was
later turned into a sewing machine shop before pastry chef Moïse Gautier acquired it in 1976. Gautier, who owned the Belgian pastry shop right next door, transformed the small space into a Parisian-style café, which in the 1980s and 1990s attracted many locals and tourists. While it was rumoured that in 2012, his daughter Stéphanie Gautier took the business into her own hands and renovated it in her father’s legacy, Chez Gautier ultimately shut down indefinitely a year later. A real estate developer purchased the property in 2013, and it has remained vacant ever since— along with its unused parking lot. PGS. 8-9
Protestors chanted, “We’re here. We’re Queer. You can’t make us disappear!”
Amelia H. Clark Staff Writer
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ueer McGill’s counter-protest against Ensemble pour protéger nos enfants (EPPNE)’s antitransgender demonstration began at 9:00 a.m. on Sept. 20, as protesters gathered in preparation for the arrival of EPPNE demonstrators at 11:00 a.m. Some EPPNE members arrived early in response, holding signs which read, “Protect children.” One counter-protester held a banner which stated, “Don’t be your child’s first
bully.” EPPNE is a right-wing organization petitioning to remove any mention of queer identities from Quebec’s K-12 curricula on the grounds that teaching youth what they describe as “gender ideology” infringes on parents’ rights to pass on their own religious or moral beliefs to their children. EPPNE further argues that children having knowledge of homosexuality or transgender identities erodes their innocence, and that this knowledge is used to indoctrinate adolescents into the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. PG. 2
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