Joseph Lievdal
Privileged Protest
EIC April 7, 2013Why we all have the responsibility to be activists By Joseph Leivdal Photos courtesy of DGriebelling / Flickr I’ve spent a few evenings picketing in front of the infamous Pidgin restaurant. I went there because I realized that reading articles and shaking an imaginary fist at developers for their role in displacing people is not enough. The only reason I’m not down there myself, struggling for shelter, has little to do with the decisions I’ve made in my life, and more to do with the fact that I’m just plain fortunate. Gentrification is not an issue of snappy controversy, nor…
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Letter to the Editor – March 11, 2013
EIC March 10, 2013By Joseph Lievdal Letter to the Editor in response to "iIf wishes were horses, beggars would ride to McGill" Here’s some math for you, David: what’s more likely, that thousands of Quebecois students from all disciplines can’t do math, or…
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