Indigenous Awareness Week: Audra Simpson Calls for a New Academic Standard

Audra Simpson’s lecture on aboriginals in academia was assuredly a highlight of this year’s Indigenous Awareness Week. Hosted at McGill and running from September 15th through to September 19th, this week’s events covered topics ranging from traditional dance to the impacts of the institutionalization of indigenous children. This year marked the 4th Indigenous Awareness Week … Continue reading →

After Atrocity: Optimizing UN Action Toward Accountability for Human Rights Abuses

On September 17th, McGill University’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism was host to “After Atrocity: Optimizing UN Action Toward Accountability for Human Rights Abuses” presented by Mr. Steven Ratner, a Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law from the University of Michigan Law School. Held at the New Chancellor Day Hall, the lecture was … Continue reading →

Youth Arctic Coalition Initiates Coordinated Activism on the Arctic

The North conjures images of an untouched land. However, youths who know and who have experienced the North also know that the region’s natural beauty is under threat from prospects of resource development and environmental degradation. These issues are among the chief concerns of the Youth Arctic Coalition (YAC), a new independent forum fostering youth … Continue reading →

McGill University hosts Third Annual Indigenous Awareness Week

For its third consecutive year, McGill’s lower field was crowded with students, staff, and community members, coming together to witness an inclusive, colourful pow-wow that would launch Indigenous Awareness Week. From September 23rd to 27th, McGill was host to various events such as numerous informational talks by professionals in their fields, interactive workshops in making dream-catchers, … Continue reading →

Review of “La Source”: storytellers who make a difference

Patrick Shen’s documentary, La Source, screened on Friday, Sept. 27, at Cinéma du Parc as part of the 2013 Montreal International Black Film Festival. The film features Josué Lajeunesse: a native Haitian whose dream to bring potable water to his village outside of Port-au-Prince was sidelined when political instability drove the single father of four to … Continue reading →

Where the power lies: a review of “Miss Representation”

“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.” – William Bernbach, co-founder of international advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach. “Miss Representation,” a film by Jennifer Siebel Newsom that premiered at … Continue reading →