Category: News

On March 5, our fellow Cheetahs took the stage and made it their own at the Crowley Art Center. The 2016 Battle of the Bands fundraiser showcased 7 different bands varying from punk to jazz, all aiming to raise money and awareness for the Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide Prevention at Vanier College. Those musical chops even impressed Paul Karwatski (CTV News, Montreal) who said he would definitely be promoting the event to people that he knows. This event was a testament to the collaborative spirit of Vanier: from…

Remember learning the names of the nine planets of the solar system back in elementary school? Did you memorize them with the phrase “Man Very Early Makes Jars Stand Up Nearly Perpendicular”? You may not be that old yet, but things have already changed. Since 2006, children are taught that “Man Very Early Makes Jars Stand Up Neatly”. Science advances at alarming rates, and Generation Y is no stranger to technology and innovation. 90’s babies have lived through change at a quicker pace than any other generation. In the first…

While the mood this Sunday will revolve around cheap chocolates and promises of love, an atmosphere of respect and mourning will most likely be felt in Downtown Montreal. Indeed, this Valentine’s Day, hundreds of people are expected to gather at the St-Laurent metro station for Montreal’s 7th Annual Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women. This march will honor the lives of hundreds of Native American women who have disappeared or have been murdered in the past few decades. The first march of this sort was held in Vancouver in…

“For [Vanier], this is an assembly of freedom, of possibility for each and everyone to be able to express oneself without fear of criticism because of religion, birthplace, nationality, gender, or language”, Normand Bernier, Vanier’s Director General, states as he explains the importance of celebrating the opening of the new gender-neutral washrooms on campus. At the press conference on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016, Bernier elaborates on this accomplishment, noting that everybody can, at one point or another, fall victim of verbal or physical violence, and intimidation due merely to the…