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METAL MONDAY: Beating the Ghost of a Dead Horse: Sex & Religion in a Post DTP World

I guess to some attentive people, Transcendence was an obvious sign of the end-times. The third album was in excess of the original intended four for Devin Townsend Project (making it the seventh down the line), and the notorious sonic tyrant decided to let the Project half in on the writing process, as if they were some kind of band. My pattern-assigning monkey brain is telling me even the title was a clue. Fortunately, I am not some attentive people, so I'm just figuring this out now for your amusement.


NEWS FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 16TH 2018

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Hosted by Luca Caruso-Moro

Stories by Luca Caruso-Moro, and Jeremiah Ho

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METAL MONDAY: Heavy Metal Book Club: “What Does This Button Do?” Bruce Dickinson, An Autobiography

*Find out how to win a copy of this book at the end of this review!*

I'm never one to turn away a good music-related auto/biography. Just as with music documentaries, most are surprising and sometimes, surprisingly edifying. Bruce Dickinson, of Iron Maiden fame, has entered the fray with his autobiography, and I'm pleased to say it ticks both boxes, despite being quite the strange creature.


NEWS FOR MONDAY, MARCH 12TH 2018

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Stories by Karl Knox, Ana Bilokin and Loren O’Brien-Egesborg

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LOCAL
By Loren O'Brien-Egesborg

This week as hearings into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls take place in Montreal, families from all over Quebec are travelling to share their stories.


NEWS FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 9TH 2018

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Stories by Luca Caruso-Moro, Jeremiah Ho 

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NATIONAL
By Jeremiah Ho


METAL MONDAY: 5 Amazing Metal Bands I Saw in Australia

Back in December, I took a trip to the land down under. I loved almost everything about Australia—the intensely hot weather, the accent, the creative cursing inserted into casual conversation. The only downside was the beer being twice as expensive. I spent most of my time in Melbourne, a city with wide-ranging arts scene. In many ways, it was like the Montreal of Australia. During my time in Melbourne, I was able to check out a handful of shows, where I fell in love with Australian’s heavy scene. Here are my picks of the best Australian metal bands that I saw live.

King Parrot


NEWS FOR MONDAY, MARCH 5TH 2018

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Stories by Karl Knox, Ana Bilokin and Loren O’Brien-Egesborg

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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

The McGill University Health Centre has changed its admission policies following the death of an Indigenous woman who was refused medical attention in 2016.


NEWS FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 2ND 2018

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LOCAL

7 out of 10 BlocQuébecois MPs quit on wednesday.


NEWS FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH 2018

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Stories by Karl Knox, Ana Bilokin and Loren O’Brien-Egesborg

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LOCAL
By Loren O'Brien-Egesborg

Thousands of people have gathered across the country in honour of Tina Fontaine, an Indigenous teenager whose body was found in Winnipeg’s Red River in 2014.


NEWS FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD 2018

Hosted by Luca Caruso-Moro

Stories by Allison O'Reilly, Luca Caruso-Moro, Jeremiah Ho

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National
By Allison O'Reilly


NEWS FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH 2018

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LOCAL
By Ana Bilokin

A Senegalese man is suing the Quebec-based Catholic congregation, Frères du Sacré-Coeur, for $1.4 million dollars.


NEWS FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16

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Stories by Jeremiah Ho, and Luca Caruso-Moro

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LOCAL
By Luca Caruso-Moro


Film Review: Black Panther (And Why You Should See It)

It’s finally here! Black Panther, the 18th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) run by Marvel Studios, focuses on the events that occurred after Captain America: Civil War, released in spring of 2016. Black Panther is not your typical MCU film, but it does revert back to MCU's last battle trope—and it looks amazing.

T’Challa returns to Wakanda, a technologically advanced African nation that is hidden from the rest of the world. Upon his return he is crowned King, but not without the demons of his father’s reign lurking in the shadows waiting to be revealed.


NEWS FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH 2018

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LOCAL
By Ana Bilokin

The Viens Commission, an inquiry into the treatment of Indigenous people by the public service system, has been granted a 10 month extension by the Quebec government.


NEWS FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH 2018

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NATIONAL
By Allison O’Reilly

After years of protest, a statue of Edward Cornwallis was removed from a park named after him in Halifax, Nova Scotia last week.


NEWS FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND 2018

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Stories by Luca Caruso-Moro & Jeremiah Ho

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LOCAL

By Luca Caruso-Moro


Top 10 Films of 2017

The new year has just begun, and so I am planning a schedule of films to watch and re-watch in the new year. 2017 was packed with a wide range of films, from pulse-quickening horror to comedies with poignant social critiques. Christopher Nolan proved with his film Dunkirk that a natural filmic quality is still possible in a big budget film.


NEWS FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 29TH 2018

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LOCAL
By Allison O’Reilly

The Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre opened its doors to the public on Saturday.


NEWS FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 22ND 2018

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LOCAL
By Ana Bilokin

Montreal’s new mayor, Valerie Plante, has announced that she is abolishing the often contested traffic ticket quotas for Montreal police.


NEWS FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 15TH 2018

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LOCAL
By Allison O’Reilly

Two Concordia professors under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct in the school’s creative writing program have had their courses reassigned.


Film Review : Ladybird

At this year’s New York Film Festival, Greta Gerwig, writer/director of Ladybird, asked the crowd, “What is Boyhood, but for a girl? What is The 400 Blows, but for a girl? What is personhood for young women?” Ladybird fits somewhere in between both of those films, while remaining singularly unique. Saoirse Ronan’s Christine, or Ladybird as she prefers to be called (prefers is a generous word, more like demands), is in her senior year at an all-girls Catholic School in Sacramento. It would be a mistake to call her a troublemaker or a ‘bad girl’. Gerwig is far too nuanced in her writing to create a female character that could categorized as such.


NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH 2017

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Stories by Allison O'Reilly, Rebecca Chant and Patricia Petit Liang

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LOCAL
By Rebecca Chant

Quebec’s public hearing of the national inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls began this Monday.


NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH 2017

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Stories by Allison O'Reilly, Rebecca Chant and Patricia Petit Liang

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LOCAL
by Rebecca Chant

Concordia University sent out a security alert this week warning students to be extra vigilant when responding to social media offers.


NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH 2017

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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

The National Council of Canadian Muslims and Canadian Civil Liberties Association is challenging the constitutionality of Bill 62.


NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH 2017

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Stories by Rebecca Chant, Allison O'Reilly and Patricia Petit Liang

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LOCAL
By Rebecca Chant

Quebec's inquiry into the treatment of Indigenous people has recognized a case of discrimination for the first time.


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