Category: News

As climate change has increasingly scarier impacts on our daily lives, billionaires seem to encourage more and more the idea of going to Mars and starting humanity over. As we all know, Elon Musk hasn’t been shy of his wish of colonizing the red planet stating that it’s “his company Space X primary goal”. Space X and NASA’s close partnership reveal their mutual goal to escape Earth as quality life slowly deteriorates. In a similar track, NASA has been preparing missions to eventually go to Mars. Artemis II is the…

Our prosperity fluctuates with the heartbeats of the global economy, tethered to its whims and tantrums. When times become uncertain, belts fasten at every level of society: investors pull out, middle-class families start budgeting, and the most vulnerable individuals — often those suffering from mental health problems or disabilities — begin worrying about how they will pay next month’s rent and grocery bill. In the aftermath of the global pandemic, lower economic activity, in terms of both production and consumption, as well as growing global instability, with escalations of armed…

Merci à Félix, Rafael, Laurélie, Nour et Édouard de l’association étudiante du CÉGEP St-Laurent (AECSL) pour leurs témoignages! Comme vous l’avez probablement remarqué, du 23 au 28 mars, les étudiants du CÉGEP St-Laurent se battaient contre l’austérité. C’est en tout plus de 60 000 étudiants qui sont entrés en grève au Québec. À Montréal, c’était entre autres ceux de Maisonneuve, Vieux-Montréal, St-Laurent, en plus de certaines associations étudiantes de l’UQAM ainsi que de l’UdeM qui sont entrés en grève. Mais d’abord, c’est quoi l’austérité? D’après l’ASSÉ (Association pour une Solidarité…

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…

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…

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…