False Hope for McGill Students

I hate to be the bearer of fake news, but there will not be a McGill Fall reading week–at least not next year. Despite the results from the 2018 SSMU Winter Referendum, in which over 96 per cent of electors voted in favour of a fall reading week, the 2019-2020 academic calendar does not include any additional …

Give McGill Students a Stress Free Spring Break

Calling all McGill University students, faculty members, and alumnae to action: We’ve established in my latest blog post that McGill University is not planning on implementing a fall reading week—anytime soon. However, what if together, as a student body, we were able to convince the administration to improve our current Winter Reading Week? I urge all McGill …

Did the Internet break Big Suze?

Big Suze, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, announced last Wednesday, that students will finally be getting a Fall reading week. Sources say that after seeing the various memes made about her incompetence, she started going to psychotherapy at a private clinic (because McGill’s counselling waitlist was too long). Apparently, this is helping her realize …

It’s time we stop getting indigenous history wrong.

“A Revolution's coming. Revolution is started." MTV's documentary series #RebelMusic focuses on bringing attention to populations around the world who are using music, art, and social media as a form of activism. The premiere episode focused on young Native Americans using rap and pop to fight for their peoples and landownership rights. This episode has shattered …

From Hot Mess to De-stressed

sorry mom full disclaimer: this blog post has a few swear words in it.  “You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving …

Relieve Stress the Write Way

There are 24 hours in a day… so why can’t we dedicate a few minutes to ourselves to reflect, ponder, and enjoy life for all it is? Instead of dealing with our stress head-on, we tend to either eat our feelings, drink more vodka sodas than we should, or binge watch a TV series that …

What could Krystal Nielson (from the Bachelor) and Margaret Thatcher possibly have in common?

From Bekah appearing on a missing persons list (only to be found hiking on a marijuana plantation farm) to Corrine’s comparisons between her heart of gold and platinum “vagine” - Bachelor nation thought they had seen and heard it all. That was maybe true…until last year’s most dramatic season of the Bachelor, where a contestant was not only …