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The Quid N LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Quid Lemonade Catherine Zhang | 3L
Welcome back, McGill Law! I find it’s now my turn to profess my hope that you have been having a wonderful first month of the year. I, for my part, have not. World news; intrusive and unwholesomely existential thoughts about how we’re now closer to 2100 than 1950 (yikes); the sudden demise of my yet-young laptop and the resulting financial strain; and what on Earth compelled me to do a moot anyway? In sum, this Court finds a veritable litany of reasons why my new year has not been happy, thank you very much. Proving once again that community is a true balm on the weary soul, in my panic and desolation I turned to the Quid. Transported mostly back to the analogue era, I leafed through Caroline’s Culinary Briefs to pass the time while picturing myself as a quaintly cottagecore housewife, or
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perhaps scullery maid. (The chocolate pudding chômeur is superb.) To combat what I’ve started referring to as—replete with wild hand gestures—the “everything of it all,”I reread last year’s Climate Corner articles by our lovely MJSDL columnists. During one particularly bad evening, when an Internet outage deprived me of even the use of my phone, I did all of last Fall’s Quid crosswords. For those interested, I uploaded all of our archives from 2021 onwards to our Issuu page over the break, so now you can really get your Quid fix in! All this to say that our Quid ecosystem is much more powerful and important than it might first appear. Though my life has since more or less stabilized, I’m sure I will continue to devour with glee my monthly horoscope, religiously try the Slander and the City recommendations, and eagerly anticipate each and every insight into our student body’s thoughts and interests. So do what you do best, and keep reading, writing, editing, beautifying, overhearing, submitting to us that outrageous thing you just overheard, cooking, cleaning, eating, drinking, laughing, not opening your Civil Code, and most important and elusive of all, sleeping! I hope we all stay clear of that flu going around, but I do solemnly swear that the Quid will be here for you, in sickness and in health.
Cette semaine INSIGHTS 2 | LEGAL LORE A Conversation With an International Human Rights Lawyer Turned Comedian 3 | THE CLIMATE CORNER New Paradigms for Climate Accountability, and What Happened to Greta Thunberg? 4 | QUARTIER LATIN 5 | THREE NICE RESTAURANTS IN QUÉBEC
10 | WE’RE ALL SMART PEOPLE... RIGHT? 11 | HOMME-ARTISTE 13 | TOILET TALK: RETHINKING THE LAW FACULTY WASHROOMS
EVENTS 3 | MACNAUGHTON LECTURE 2026: MOVEMENT LAYWERING FOR BLACK LIVES
COMMUNAUTÉ 8 | A MONTH IN THE LIFE 9 | SLANDER AND THE CITY Judgement Rendered: Lou’s PointeClaire 12 | THE RETURN OF ACTUS REUS 12 | OVERHEARDS 15 | MEET THE QUID TEAM 15 | MINI CROSSWORD Homophones: This or That?
6 | THE DUEL NEVER ENDED On Law, Belief, and the Persistence of “Might Makes Right” QUID.LAW@MCGILL.CA
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