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The R-word

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:30:30 -0500

Sexual Assault Awareness month teaches women how to stay safe

They say you always remember your first time. That is especially true when you lose your virginity–not to a high school sweetheart or some stupid drunken fling–but to a...

Whats in that bag?

TristanLaPointe — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:59:23 -0500

The sights and sounds of a G20 protest

The cop is standing in my way and it’s pretty clear that I’m not getting around him without his say-so. “Do you mind if I take a look inside your bag? I don’t...

Sense and censorship

TristanLaPointe — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:38:37 -0500

Alternative media: telling the whole story

When you talk or write for a living, at some point, somebody is going to want you to shut up. That’s the problem with putting information out there: not everybody wants to...

Building anarchism, one page at a time

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:42:16 -0500

Montreal's Anarchist Bookfair celebrates its 11th edition

Glass shards lay scattered on the ground in front of a large chain store on Ste-Catherine Street West. A young punk, his face covered with a black bandana, screams at a...

Étranger chez-soi

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:46:25 -0500

Comment agir dans un espace anglophone

Qu’ils soient originaires du Saguenay ou de la ville de Québec, de la banlieue ou même de Montréal, bon nombre de jeunes québécois portent un intérêt pour...

The greenest way to bleed

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:44:12 -0500

How sustainable is your period?

Once again, it’s that time of the month. That “natural” time to indulge in carte blanche emotional terrain, connect with the moon and tides, synch up with your...

Keeping the taxman at bay

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:45:03 -0500

Smart tax tips for university students

You’ve seen them, slowly filtering into newspapers and onto airwaves and billboards. Each year at about this time they start to appear, beckoning you—the average...

Funny face

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:36:21 -0600

Clowns Sans Frontières prove that laughter really is the best medicine

To most children, a red nose brings to mind one of two things: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, or a runny nose courtesy of the common cold. But to those in orphanages, refugee...

50 years of dissent

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:08:46 -0600

April, 1967: A “Queer-sweep” of downtown Montreal takes place as part of preparation for Expo ‘67. Police then allegedly arrested several officials involved with the Expo...

Race for rights

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:06:50 -0600

Olympic flashpoints of civil protest

In April 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for protesting against segregation in Birmingham, Ala. Four months later, King led the March on Washington where over 200,000...