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Concorida University’s Gender Advocacy Center will be holding a series of events this week to empower and inspire students and members of the Montreal community.

According to the Link, it will be the third annual Another Word for Gender Series, which focuses on social justice through a gender-issues lens. The various events will highlight issues relating to marginalized members of society.

The Centre’s Programming and Campaigns Coordinatior, Bianca Mugyenyi says it will be a diversified series for people that see and challenge inequality and injustice in different ways, and will help to build people’s strengths.

Events in the series will include a talk on the aboriginal experience of the residential school system, consent workshops, several events to examine the role of men in feminism and keynote speaker, Glen Canning.

Canning is the father of 17 year old Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide in April after being sexually assaulted and bullied.

The series will end with a Sisters in Spirit march for missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

Hosted by: Jordan Namur

Stories by: Audrey Folliot, Catlin Spencer & Saturn De Los Angeles

Produced by: Catlin Spencer

Good news for Montrealers living in the East end of the city.

According to Radio-Canada, the province will announce Friday morning at 10 a.m. their intention to extend the metro system’s blue line beyond the St.Michel terminus.

The province plans on adding as many as five stations to the east, covering a distance of six kilometers all the way to the borough of Anjou.

The AMT had requested this extending back in June, and current transport minister Sylvain Gaudreault mentioned that the province was in favour of the project. 

The last extension project of this kind took five years and eight hundred million dollars to realize.

It was the adding of three stations to the orange line towards Laval.

The possibility of extending the yellow line past the Longueil terminus is also expected to be on the table at tomorrow’s meeting.

STORY WRITTEN BY: Audrey Folliot

FLICKR PHOTO BY: Andreas Rammelt

In Sleeper, Ty Segall puts down the expected electric and effects-ladened fuzz and instead picks up the acoustic guitar, resulting in an accessible and introspective LP. This is an intimate album, one in which he invites us into his most personal space, which, as it happens, is inhabited by a disturbed presence.

The acoustic nature of the album gives us a sense that Segall is not just opening the door to himself, but that he’s broken it down completely. The character of the recording further accentuates this feeling. It’s as if Ty has come into your home, sits on the couch and begins to play in an effort to release his inner most feelings, all the while you just happen to record him on whatever equipment is lying around.

The sound on this album is clearly influenced by the psychedelic sounds of the past as the album invokes memories of early Pink Floyd and late era Beatles.

“Sleeper” begins by whistling through certain perceptions that Segall posses but are ultimately professed as dreams, as he pines to “want to sleep all day / And I wanna go away / I want to sleep all day”, his voice flowing in from a breezy distance. You can understand this desire once you realize the cloud surrounding this album. As Segall reveals in a number of interviews, Sleeper was recorded after the death of his stepfather and his estrangement from his mother. His feelings are revealed on “Crazy” and then further explored on “She Don’t Care”, where the violins act as guides to help navigate the emotional terrain.

“Come Outside” is another highlight as it pulses on through with a repetitive chord progression from his acoustic guitar, steered by the walking bass line and thumping rhythm of whatever household item is being used as a drum.

This album is a beautiful if not haunting listen. While it may be a slight turn from what we’ve grown accustom to from Segall, it nonetheless showcases an artist growing and maturing as a songwriter and storyteller.