In recent years there have been a growing number of complaints directed towards McGill regarding noise, vandalism, and disturbances in the adjacent Milton-Parc neighbourhood. I wrote this report last summer for the Student Society of McGill university (SSMU). It hopes to inform the efforts of SSMU and of other stakeholders who wish to alleviate the problems associated with an increased student presence in this residential area.
Ater a historical survey of the socio-demographic development (...)
Images of the war on terror have leaked faster and more crudely than in previous wars. After the CNN effect and the Al-Jazeera effect, let’s explore the repercussions of the Nokia effect.
This weekend, Under Pressure featured Kool Herc, a Jamaican New-Yorker who coined the term hip hop in 1973. The initiator of the movement made its way to Canada for the first time, I caught up with him after his dj set which had Montreal’s Flowrock crew win a breakdance competition. The man is opened, humble, and most of all he doesn’t fall into old school nostalgia.
How does it feel to be in Canada?
When you see something that spreads out of the neighborhood and goes worldwide, it (...)
Maroussia:Your website is called the dusty foot philosopher.
Why is your foot dusty?
K’naan:Because that’s what I am called. It represents children out of Africa that I was hanging with when I was younger. Coming up, we didn’t have much, we were poor. But we were always articulate kids. We’d talk about things and imagine places, dream about things that we didn’t have immediate access to. We were philosopher in dreams but dusty in our means.
M:Let’s talk about your video Soobax (...)
wondering where I was hiding? Here’s the result of too many books/not enough space. Enjoy, cite, and give props.
Since the IMF birth in the Bretton-Woods context, governing international economic regimes and its core institutions in a neo-liberal theoretical framework is increasingly impossible. From its inception, the IMF was intended to be embedded in Keynesian interventionism. Floating currency rates and decolonization gave birth to a new set of problems in the seventies, and redemption (...)