Hidden river may affect soccer arena
If construction does go ahead on a proposed soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, the problems for Major League Soccer and its 25,000-seat arena may only just be beginning
Read moreFemme Fatale: Wrestling as Art
In a few hours, the doors will open to the Centre Sportif St-Barthélemy, and several hundred people – an eclectic mix of professional wrestling purists and assholes – will pour into the main gym space for Femmes Fatales IX, the only all women’s wrestling promotion in Canada and the second biggest in North America
Read moreHas the mainstream media been misrepresenting the student strike?
Quebec was under the media spotlight this spring as students took to the streets in a showdown with the Charest government over tuition hikes. Now, with protests dwindling and summer setting in, media attention has waned, leaving the door open for public scrutiny of mainstream media’s treatment of the events of Quebec’s student movement
Read more‘Political vendetta’ against Native Friendship Centre of Montreal
The Native Friendship Centre of Montreal (NFCM) is battling a “political vendetta,” according to Brett Pineau, the Centre’s executive director
Read more1,589 arrested so far in student strike
The student strike is now in its 103rd day, with over half the arrests made in the last five days, as new legislation has prompted police to crack down harder on protestors
Read more2nd night of protest under Bill 78: More than 300 arrests, flooding, injuries
Two days after legislation aimed at pacifying student protests went into effect, protesters and police clashed violently once again on Sunday night, culminating in mass arrests and at least two people hospitalized
Read moreThe phantom student government
They took student money and didn’t do their job. Now no one can get in touch with them. What happened to the executive board of the Continuing Studies student union?
Read moreJames Administration occupiers allege assault by security
Fourteen students claim to have been assaulted by McGill Security while they occupied the fifth floor of the James Administration building for two hours last Thursday afternoon
Read moreAir pollution may be ‘health timebomb’ for London’s deprived children
On-going study of children in east London finds air pollution a factor in lung impairment – but political deadlock and lack of public awareness are holding up solutions
Read moreCould we be entering the era of greener air travel?
Last week Thomson announced the launch of a weekly flight to Palma, fuelled by old cooking oil. Henry Gass asks whether more sustainable air travel could finally be in sight
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