By: Shereen Ahmed Rafea

Radio-Canada should apologize for an “offensive” skit that belittled the Italian community, a group of businessmen say. For the second time in as many years, Radio-Canada infuriated an ethnic group in Montreal with skits on a New Year’s ...

By: Emma Godmere

OTTAWA (CUP) — While its title was “Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth,” the Conservatives’ March 4 federal budget offered little for students seeking such prosperity in the near future. The biggest announcement in the over 400-pa...

By: Evan LePage

Since the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, powerful earthquakes have hit Japan, Taiwan, Turkey and most notably Chile, where a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck on Feb. 27. None of these quakes, however, have come close to causing the damage and dea...

By: Patricia Vasquez Lopez

The Plateau Mont-Royal, while great at drawing people in to socialize, live and eat, needs to work on becoming a greener borough, environmental groups said during a community forum March 3. And the area’s residents, attending the forum in strong num...

By: Amy Minsky

City in Brief St-Henri murder A 16-year-old male is being charged with murder after a man was stabbed to death March 7.  The victim, 24, was stabbed at 3:25 a.m. outside of the Black Jack Bar in St-Henri after having spent the evening there. A knife ...

By: Amy Minsky

Montreal's usual metro buskers were shuffled aside March 2, as more recognized artists took their spots. During War Child's Busking for Change, 30 Montreal artists including Mackenzie First, Creature, Amy Millan of Stars and Sébastien Lefebvre of S...

By: Evan LePage

It was a David and Goliath affair at the Concordia Student Union’s annual “Poster Night,” the official opening of the CSU elections, as a brand new team fought for space against a slate with a few familiar faces. The Fusion team, led by ...

By: Tyson Lowrie

Women's Week   March 8 to 12 is Women’s Week at Concordia. Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi will be giving a speech on March 10 on “Women, Peace and Iran.” Entrance is free. The CSU is hosting various events, such as self-defence w...

By: Renee Giblin

Mechtronix World Corporation announced Wednesday a $150,000 donation to Concordia University’s Engineering and Computer Science Department. The MWC, an airline operation and training solution company, was created by a group of former Concordia engin...

By: Amy Minsky

Concordia University reversed its reputation as being a loser — and it took less than one week of competition. For years, Concordia students finished last or second-to-last at the all-French Communications Games, an annual competition where students...

By: Tyson Lowrie

 With the opening of Montreal’s annual Israeli Apartheid Week, last Thursday, came the annual firestorm of criticism over the name and purpose of the event. IAW Montreal is one of 40 similar events being held around the world. Each features spe...

By: Chris Hanna

The line between what cinema is and what it ought to be is one that is being crossed increasingly rarely, according to film historian and critic André Habib. Last Friday’s Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture held at Concordia University ...

By: Adam Avrashi

Becoming the first woman to win Best Director is certainly an accolade, but the win doesn’t shatter the glass ceiling for female directors as much as it should. Kathryn Bigelow directed The Hurt Locker, the rough-and-tumble Iraq war flick, which cer...

By: Shawn Dezan

LONDON -- Walking up to The Market Estate Project, I noticed a man hanging off the side of the building.  A black curtain was the only thing supporting his existence, coming out of the top window of the tower block closest to the entrance.  In t...

By: Adam Avrashi

The Oscars have come to a close and so has Montreal fashion week, but there is no need to be blue. Fashion is never better preserved than on a film reel, from the backstage anticipation of a designer’s first runway show to a fashion magazine editor&...

By: Sarah Deshaies

Aimy Hart has been described as determined, delusional, selfish, naive and insecure. Part ditzy reality star and celebutante, part desperate actress, Aimy’s online web series, Miss Top 10, has netted the ambitious starlet many new fans - over 300 of...

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If ever there’s a film that takes a contentious topic and treats it with some long overdue respect, it’s Boy I Am. The documentary, directed by Sam Feder and Judy Hollar, examines the issue of female to male sex operations with courage, clarit...

By: Adam Avrashi

By looking over his past shows, you might assume that Sean Yendrys has a chair fetish. The 22-year-old Concordia graphic design student is curating his second Art Matters show at Concordia this week. And like last year, he is featuring some chairs in his ...

By: Philip Fry

21-year-old Concordia student Heidi (not her real name) came home late, slightly tipsy, one night when she heard the recognizable “pop” of a message on Facebook Chat. She didn’t recognize the name, or even remember accepting the friend r...

By: Valeria Nekhim

While our minds are already in summer mode, the fashion world is focusing on fall and winter. From March 1 to 4, the big names in Montreal fashion shared their fall/winter 2010/11 ready-to-wear collections with fashionistas, journalists, buyers and blogge...