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Achieving alternate futures in the Anthropocene
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 2023 | VOL. 43 | ISSUE 5
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Redbirds Rugby roars in first home win of the season against Université de Montréal
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Montreal students take to the streets demanding climate action
Environmental groups at McGill rallied students and marched to Jeanne Mance together
Galia Pakman Arrojo Contributor When walking near Jeanne-Mance Park last Friday, or anywhere downtown for that matter, the blocked roads and crowds
with quippy signs chanting over megaphones were hard to miss. Montreal’s annual climate march, held on Sept. 29 and organized this year by Rage Climatique—a coalition of environmental groups in the city—drew throngs of students to the George-Étienne Cartier Monument, where the march began.
Their message: Denouncing inaction and apathy in the face of a rapidly deteriorating planet. This year’s strike comes in the wake of a summer marked by record-high temperatures across the globe and millions of hectares of land scorched in forest fires across Canada. PG. 3
Don Gillmor’s ‘Breaking and Entering’ bears the unbearable mid-life crisis
McGill lacrosse wins 9-5 over Queen’s in second annual Legacy Game Redbirds take home meaningful victory to regain a winning record
The author’s fourth novel vividly tackles heatwaves, divorces, and dinner parties Chloe Sproule Contributor The body reacts to extreme heat much like a city—its systems so overburdened, its relationships so strangely altered, that it is forced to cope in unlike-
ly ways. In Don Gillmor’s fourth novel, Breaking and Entering, a Toronto heatwave is the crucible under whose pressures the illusions of normal life begin to fray. In reticent, spare prose, the novel chronicles the senseless mess of city living and
the cruel ironies of old age, divorce, and family with the finely wrought texture of real, unspectacular life. Yet just as couples tire of their once-magnetic attraction, so too can the delights of witty cynicism become exhausting in rhythmic repetition. PG. 12
Madigan McMahon Contributor After a tough loss against Trent Excalibur (5–1) on Sept. 23, the McGill men’s lacrosse team (3–2) returned to Percival Molson Stadium with hopes to bounce back against the Queen’s Uni-
versity Gaels (2–1) in their second annual Legacy Game. The first Legacy Game was played on Sept. 30, 2022, created in collaboration by representatives from McGill Athletics and the Office of Indigenous Initiatives, including the First Peoples’ House. The
game is intended to provide a platform to discuss Truth and Reconciliation while also recognizing the Indigenous roots of lacrosse. Lacrosse originated within Indigenous communities well before the arrival of settlers and was often used to settle disagreements between communities. PG. 16