Ruth Tshikonde The Silhouette On Tuesday, Oct. 12 McMaster hosted a conference entitled “Stop Stealing our Steel: The Struggle of the Steelworkers”. The conference, organized by McMaster’s Labour Studies Student Association, and sponsored by OPIRG, began with an introduction by Brendan Sweeney, from the Department of Labour Studies. Sweeney explained the importance of labour studies […]
Violetta Nikolskaya & Sumeet Khanna Co-Presidents, McMaster Debating Society Q: Occupy Wall Street is quickly spreading as a movement. Is protesting an effective method of combating injustice, or do the drawbacks distort the message? VN: Right now, we find ourselves witnessing perhaps the closest example of what Marx foresaw when he wrote that the proletariat […]
Sonya Khanna Business Editor The recent popularity of the online video messaging service Skype has led many firms to implement the usage of this quirky technology as an innovative form of interviewing, acting as a budget friendly, hassle free alternative to the traditional method of interviewing. According to a report on Skyping for Interviews by […]
Carla Brown SHEC Media People don’t like to talk about suicide. We don’t even like to say the word. We have these euphemisms (to ‘off yourself’, ‘end it all’, ‘take your own life’) to make the topic easier to avoid. It makes us uncomfortable, and to an extent this is natural; we don’t like to […]
Lauren Jewett The Silhouette In October 2010, Richmond, BC became the first city in Canada to ban the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores. In September, Toronto followed suit, taking steps to eliminate ‘puppy mills’ and reduce animal cruelty. Puppy mills are breeding facilities that force large numbers of dogs to live […]
Justin Trudeau held a Q&A session at McMaster on Oct. 12 Kacper Niburksi Assistant News Editor While disco fever may have died with the 80’s, it seems that Trudeau-mania is still very much alive. Justin Trudeau, son of the late prime minster Pierre Trudeau, MP of Papineau, Quebec since 2008 and current Liberal critic for […]
Julia Redmond The Silhouette In the midst of the excitement of homecoming weekend, there was an oasis of calm and music. Renowned sitar player Partha Bose came to McMaster on Oct.1 for a lecture and performance. His presentation gave the audience a taste of classical Indian music. Students, faculty, and community members alike gathered in […]
Bushra Habib The Silhouette McMaster’s Peace Week began with the unveiling of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi on Oct. 3 outside the McMaster University Student Centre. Patrick Deane, President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster, and Preeti Saran, Consul General of India in Toronto, were present at the event. The statue, donated by the Government of India, […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor If the future is to be feared, then Amira Hass wants to tell the world. In fact, she already has. “Gaza is a big prison, and it has been so for the last 20 years,” began her Oct. 6 lecture to a group of 150 McMaster students and professors. “And […]
Cassandra Jeffery Assistant Insideout Editor As adults in our university careers, our relationships with a significant other evolve into a more delicate and emotionally fragile debacle. We mature from our roots as innocent children who find little love notes endearing into adults who seek companionship in more than interest in Pokemon and a shared […]
