YEAR IN REVIEW

Elizabeth May was in Montreal on October 10, participating in a protest against the Energy East and Line 9B pipelines.

Members of the Non- Status Women’s Collective of Montreal held a press conference on January 18 at Concordia’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute. The speakers, who wore masks to protect their identities, talked about their experiences living undocumented lives and reiterated their demand that they be “regularized.”

“I am so tired of a man so smug that he can look at any one of our victims, any one of our missing women, and say ‘ you don’t matter’. Well I’m gonna tell Stephen Harper one thing and one thing only. And that is, Stephen Harper, you don’t matter. We are done with inept leaders.”

—A speaker from the Kanien’keháka (Mohawk) Nation at a vigil for Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women on October 4

“In the current economic system, a decent wage is one of the few things that shows an employer’s respect for workers, and the low wages support staff receive [at Mcgill] show a serious lack of respect from the administration.”

—Molly Swain, president of the Association of Mcgill University Support Employees (AMUSE), speaking with The Daily in September, in response to allegations that Mcgill violated provincial Bill 100, which restricts pay raises in order to combat provincial debt

“I do think there’s an obligation to not be complicit in war crimes and violent, aggressive warfare.”

—Jason (pseudonym), a member of Demilitarize Mcgill, encouraging alumni to take a pledge not to donate to Mcgill until military research is ended at the university, as part of the Change Mcgill campaign