The Tribune
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 2025 | VOL. 44 | ISSUE 19
Published by the SPT, a student society of McGill University
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FEATURE
Understanding Canada’s record-breaking wildfires in 2023
Confronting anti-Black racism in Canada’s healthcare system
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OFF THE BOARD McGill’s “gatekeeper courses” are against the spirit of education PG. 5 (Hannah Nobile / The Tribune) Tribune)
McGill sees several feet of snow.
Protestors march for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People NEWS
No More Lost Sisters event affirms community solidarity with MMIWG2S+ people
Amelia H. Clark Staff Writer Content warning: Mentions of murder and violence.
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he Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal (NWSM) and Concordia’s Centre for Gender Advocacy (CGA) hosted the No More Lost Sisters march for the National Day
of Awareness/Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People (MMIWG2S+) on Feb. 14. Protestors walked in -10° C weather to raise awareness about the disproportionately high rates of violence committed against Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people, and the low conviction rates for their murderers. The march began at Cabot Square at 6 p.m. and ended at Place du Canada at around 8 p.m.. According to speaker Kevin
When there are no words
Deer, the goal of this event was to inform onlookers of the historic and ongoing violence MMIWG2S+ people face in Canada, where Indigenous women are 16 times more likely to go missing than white women. Before the march, activist Ellen Gabriel addressed the crowd, discussing the central role protests and demonstrations play in creating systemic change within Canada’s policing system. PG. 2
Lip service won’t save Gentle words for heavy hearts lives amid the Indigenous domestic Jamie Xie one of the few universal experiences we Staff Writer all share and yet our relationship to it is violence crisis ARTS
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hen I was little and my parents were checking out at the grocery aisle, I would wander over to the greeting cards and wait. It was only upon discovering the floral-fronted sympathy cards that I began to realize death was all around us. With a history as banal as its subject matter, death is the unknowable reality of our everyday lives. It is
anything but simple. In navigating loss, we often ask: What is there to be said when words fail? Hosted in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine until Apr. 1 and curated by the Maude Abbott Medical Museum of the Pathology Society, When There Are No Words explores the shifting sociocultural attitude towards grief through a collection of uniquely PG. 12 Québécois sympathy cards.
EDITORIAL
The Tribune Editorial Board
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his Valentine’s Day, the Centre for Gender Advocacy and The Native Women’’s Shelter of Montreal’’s Iskewu Project cohosted their annual memorial march and vigil in honour of Montreal’s Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+).
With the Canadian government offering little more than mere lip service to the MMIWG2S+ crisis, marching Montrealers demanded tangible action, remembrance, and broader awareness. The ongoing national inquiry into MMIWG2S+ has resulted in countless studies highlighting that colonial and patriarchal policies were sources of intergenerational trauma, which in turn cause Indigenous women to be overrepresented among those PG.5 missing and murdered.