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McGill kicked off its bicentennial (1821-2021) celebrations on March 31 by broadcasting its centrepiece event, “Celebrate 200: Launching Our 3rd Century,” live from the university’s bicentennial website. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, MD ‘18, a frontline healthcare worker and professional football player, and Heleena De Oliveira, U3 Arts and president of the Black Students’ Network (BSN), hosted the event and also took part in 200-second challenges dispersed throughout the program. In her opening remarks, De Oliveira recognized Shakorennawis Doxtador-Swamp, Oneida and Bear Clan, who perfo...

The Black Student Union utilizes its social media to educate the Concordia student body How four young women started the organization Concordia students Amaria Phillips, Lorry Joseph, Tanou Bah and Ernithe Edmond were all shocked to see there was no Black club or union at Concordia University. “We were like, ‘Wait a minute, there’s no actual like, Black club?’ It’s either Caribbean or African? But there’s not one for just Black people,” said Phillips. For example, McGill, the other anglophone university in Montreal, does have a Black Student Network, which acts similarly to a...

The UCL Students’ Union has announced the BAME and Women’s Officer positions will no longer be full-time sabbatical officers. Instead, the two are being replaced with an Equity Officer who will oversee a number of part-time liberation officers. The position comes as part of a union restructure which was unanimously approved by the current sabbatical officer team. On the 18th January, the decision to remove the positions as part of the new officer structure was debated and modified in the Union Executive meeting. The result was that the Equity Officer would be made as a new, full-time, pai...

IMA begins hunger strike over govt's move allowing Ayurveda doctors to perform surgery PTI Updated : Feb 1, 2021, 6:49 pm IST The IMA also said it will release awareness posters and banners across the country  Picture used for reprsentational purposes only (Image source: Pixabay) New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) said its members and modern medicine doctors have started a relay hunger strike from Monday at over 50 places across the country in protest against a notification by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) authorising post-graduate practitioners of Ay...

IMA begins hunger strike over govt allowing Ayurveda doctors to perform surgery PTI Updated Feb 1, 2021, 6:49 pm IST The IMA also said it will release awareness posters and banners across the country  Picture used for reprsentational purposes only (Image source: Pixabay) New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) said its members and modern medicine doctors have started a relay hunger strike from Monday at over 50 places across the country in protest against a notification by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) authorising post-graduate practitioners of Ayurveda to perf...