The Lively lady Laureates of Black History Month 2026 Black History Month 

The Lively lady Laureates of Black History Month 2026

As many know, the month of February holds significant importance for a people whose voices and contributions have often been overlooked throughout history: it is Black History Month. And while the Canadian government officially recognized February as Black History Month in 1995, Montrealers had already been celebrating the occasion for nearly a century. For the past 35 years, a key role in these celebrations has been played by the Montreal Black History Month Round Table, a non-profit organization that has helped expand events and community recognition throughout Québec. During this…

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Where are they now? Vanier Alumni 

Where are they now?

Featuring Latoya Belfon In light of March being International Women’s Month, Latoya Belfon is a woman worth recohnizing and celebrating. The Vanier Alumn started her experience at Vanier in 2008 and graduated in 2011. She earned her diploma in Social Science & Women’s Studies. The former student is now an award-winning author, publisher, educator, and Founder and CEO of Labworks Publishing Inc.. Why did you decide to apply to Vanier? “It was a college that was close to me. I thought that Dawson College being so close to the shopping…

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Keeping Up with the Library Entertainment 

Keeping Up with the Library

Books in the Vanier College Library: Get Ready for Spring. Search by Title. The Regenerative Garden “The main goal of permaculture is to turn your space into a functioning ecosystem that’s less reliant on external resources and better able to sustain itself through many seasons of growth and change as it resists pests, diseases, and climate extremes. Whatever the size of your space, from a tiny patio garden to a big backyard, and whether you grow food, flowers, shrubs, trees, or a combination of all,” this book is for you.”…

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Vanier Chilli Cheetahs Clubs 

Vanier Chilli Cheetahs

Disclaimer: Cold exposure is like weightlifting, it can empower your body, but when you overdo it, injury or worse can happen. This is why Chilly Cheetahs will be extremely beginner friendly with the highest temperature of a cold plunge being 15 degrees Celsius. This is cold enough for benefits but nowhere near cold enough to harm a beginner. Keep up with the lingo! Chill definitions: Lax means loose. What does it mean for you to re-lax? What is this state of lax that you are re-turning to? If you must…

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Fashion Forever!!! Clubs 

Fashion Forever!!!

Ever since AI has started taking a ballooning share of public discourse, an age-old question has been back in fashion: “What makes us human?” Among all possible answers, I’ve found one to be more comforting than the others — we’ve got great style. Everyday, we make a statement about who we are and what we believe in with how we choose to dress, and maybe that’s something fundamental to the human condition, something LLMs can’t steal from us. For something so important to our culture and our identity, it’s been…

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The ultimatum of AI News 

The ultimatum of AI

February 27th was a big day for the AI tech world. The Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Department of War, gave Anthropic an ultimatum. To provide some context, Anthropic is a company that developed Claude, an AI much more powerful than ChatGPT. Since July 2025, Anthropic has been working with the Pentagon to incorporate AI into its defense strategies. According to Anthropic, working with the Pentagon is essential to defending the United States and to maintain America’s lead in the AI race. AI is largely used by the Pentagon…

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Fake news or real violence in mexico? News 

Fake news or real violence in mexico?

Mexico? What’s happening in Mexico? I’m sure many of you have seen the news and Tik Tok headlines screaming “MEXICO DANGER ZONE FOR ANY AND ALL TOURISTS, AIRPORTS SHOT UP AND STREETS BLOCKED!!!!!!” But, I’m here to talk about the facts, which are often misrepresented in the media and overdramatized for the sake of views and shock. It is important in these situations to consider the sources sharing information on such a delicate topic, so let me give a summary of what happened in the last weeks in Mexico so…

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Long Battle of Imperialism: the Case of Cuba News 

Long Battle of Imperialism: the Case of Cuba

Colonialism, corruption and poverty. How did we get here? The history of Cuba is heavy and nuanced. For the sake of keeping it concise, here is a summary. Long, long ago (~ 4000 BCE), the island of Cuba was inhabited by Indigenous groups: primarily the Taíno, along with the Guanajatabey and Ciboney peoples. That was until the infamous Christopher Columbus’ arrival in 1492. His “discovery” began the gruesome colonial rule over the island by the Spanish in 1511, which resulted in the Indigenous population being enslaved and forcefully converted to…

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Student Testimonies: The Genocide in Palestine News Social Justice 

Student Testimonies: The Genocide in Palestine

in collaboration with some MSA and Ardouna members. In light of the ongoing and unjust killings of the Palestinian people, the purpose of this article is to ensure that Vanier College students who are both directly and indirectly affected by this crime against humanity can feel seen, reprsented, and supported. By reading the personal and anonymously contributed testimonies provided by some MSA club members and some Ardouna club members, I invite everyone to read their words with compassion and empathy. “The Muslim Student Association is a student-led club aiming to…

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The Historyof a Nation Forcefully Divided: Palestine News Social Justice 

The Historyof a Nation Forcefully Divided: Palestine

In 1897, the First Zionist Congress took place in Basel Switzerland with the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl, founder of this ideology. Zionism comes from the Mount Zion, Jabal Sahyoun in Arabic. This refers to the hill in Al-Quds (Arabic name for Jerusalem) that is known for sites like the Prophet David’s Tomb. His idea was to establish, with the support of the European colonial powers, a pure Jewish secular westernized state between the Nile and the Euphrates referring to Genesis 15 in the Christian Bible. In fact, the two blue…

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