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Putting down roots: An introduction to Little Forests McGill

Sep 24, 2024 | thetribune.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo

The lush canopies of Mount Royal may be the most quintessential of Montreal’s renowned green—and soon to be red and orange—spaces; but thanks to one McGill club, students and city residents alike may soon have new woods to admire in their downtown backyard. Little Forests McGill, a student association founded in 2022 with the goal of integrating nature into urban areas, is working to plant one of Canada’s few Miyawaki Forests in Montreal.
Leaving laptops at the door

Dec 5, 2023 | thetribune.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo

The Tribune is situated on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka; a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst many First Nations, including the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg, among others. The Tribune honours, recognizes and respects these nations as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters.
Students take to the streets to oppose Quebec government’s proposed tuition hikes

Dec 5, 2023 | thetribune.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo |Lily Cason

Red felt squares dappled McGill’s Y-intersection on Nov. 30, as students gathered to once again protest the Quebec government’s proposed for English-speaking universities. The hikes, announced on Oct. 13, would nearly double fees for out-of-province students at schools like McGill and Concordia from around $9,000 to $17,000 annually. The proposal would also increase international students’ tuition fees to a of $20,000 per year.
AGSEM completes contentious fifth round of negotiations over TA contracts with McGill

Nov 28, 2023 | thetribune.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo

Content Warning: Discrimination, sexual violenceA fifth round of negotiations between McGill and the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) over teaching assistants (TAs)’ collective contract took place on Nov. 22. According to a press release sent to The Tribune by AGSEM, the primary issue on the table was what they referred to as its point of “greatest divergence” between both sides’ proposals: The protection of TAs from discrimination and sexual violence.
Montreal students take to the streets demanding climate action

Oct 3, 2023 | thetribune.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo

When walking near Jeanne-Mance Park last Friday, or anywhere downtown for that matter, the blocked roads and crowds with quippy signs chanting over megaphones were hard to miss. Montreal’s annual climate march, held on Sept. 29 and organized this year by Rage Climatique—a coalition of environmental groups in the city—drew throngs of students to the George-Étienne Cartier Monument, where the march began. Their message: Denouncing inaction and apathy in the face of a rapidly deteriorating planet.
Along Party Lines: Language education rights being debated as Bill 40 returns to court

Sep 19, 2023 | thetribune.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo

The Tribune is situated on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka; a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst many First Nations, including the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg, among others.
When Planting Gets Political: Urban gardening for social reform - PART I

Aug 21, 2023 | mironline.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo

In cities across the world, groups of people from all walks of life are changing the face of urban living for the better. Their strategy of choice is deceivingly simple: getting their hands in the dirt to garden. In recent decades, urban gardening has notably risen in the ranks from an eclectic (and, admittedly, geriatric-seeming) hobby to the focus of numerous academic investigations.
Galia Pakman Arrojo

Aug 21, 2023 | mironline.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo

The reconnection with nature that gardening offers is not simply a nostalgic yearning, reserved for outdoors aficionados or environmental activists—it is critical to our future.
When Planting Gets Political: Urban gardening for social reform

Aug 21, 2023 | cityfarmer.info | Galia Pakman Arrojo |Michael Levenston

PART I: Combatting a Global Food CrisisBy Galia Pakman ArrojoMcGill International ReviewAug 21, 2023Excerpt:City populations are not only physically distant from their food sources; growing up with limited access to nature or environmental activities, younger urban generations may face an imminent loss of agricultural knowledge.
In Defense of the Cinema: why your local movie theatre matters more than ever

Jun 15, 2023 | thetribune.ca | Galia Pakman Arrojo

Sparks have been flying in the film industry lately—but not in the romantic sense. Since May 2, thousands of screenwriters across the United States, represented by the Writers Guild of America (WGA), have declared a strike against major studios and streaming platforms. The issue on the table? What they describe as an “existential crisis” for their craft amidst diminishingpay and the obsolescence of their role in the filmmaking process.