The Tribune
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 2025 | VOL. 45 | ISSUE 11
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
KATSEYE represent exploitation masked as progress PG. 10
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Learning to live and love through art PG. 11
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Montreal REM opens 14 new stations amid STM service disruptions PG. 4
NEWS
Since the BEI’s creation in 2016, it has only charged two police officers with criminal misconduct, despite over 450 BEI investigations into officer behaviour. (Armen Erzingatzian / The Tribune)
Protestors rally against police brutality and impunity Demonstration follows a recent wave of deaths stemming from police violence in the Greater Montreal area
Sudan’s genocide is fueled by global and local apathy toward Black lives EDITORIAL
The Tribune Editorial Board
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n April 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group descended into a civil war. Since then, both groups have executed large-scale massacres and targeted ethnic cleansing against Black, non-Arab ethnic groups, such as the Masalit, Fur, and Zaghawa peoples. This genocide—enabled by a complicit international community and funded by the investment portfolios of Western institutions—has killed over 150,000 people, with approximately 9 million displaced internally and 1.8 million fleeing Sudan as refugees. The ongoing genocide in Sudan reflects
the international community’s racist neglect of Black lives and selective disregard for humanitarian crises in Africa. This apathy is clearly mirrored in institutions like McGill, whose refusal to divest from arms manufacturers signals a shameless willingness to profit from global violence against Black communities. sustained student pressure can outlast institutional intransigence—whether we can make the status quo more costly to maintain than to change. This pattern of international inaction is not new. Beginning in 2003, General Omar al-Bashir’s regime carried out a genocidal campaign in Darfur that killed an estimated 300,000 people and displaced roughly 2.7 milPG. 5 lion individuals.
The cost of McGill’s excellence
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FEATURE
How eroded collegiality and declining fiscal protections drive McGill faculty unionization
Mairin Burke Managing Editor
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ver the last two years, McGill has widely publicized its rise in the QS World University Rankings, which most recently identified the university as Canada’s top school and the 27th best worldwide. However, this publicity obscures a jarring campus reality from community awareness: Academic staff continue to call out McGill for the unfair working conditions that underlie such excellence. For three years, McGill faculties have moved towards unionizing beyond the McGill
Association of University Teachers (MAUT), a body that does not permit academic staff to collectively bargain as true faculty unions would. Unionization has allowed professors—such as members of The Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL)—to formally strike for better wages and protections. To avoid demonizing faculty strikes at McGill, it is crucial to examine the financial inequities that—until recently—McGill’s nonunionized professoriate has been subject to. Until McGill’s administration properly recognizes its staff contributions, the university cannot be the equitable, leading institution of excellence it proclaims itself to be. PGS. 8-9