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Pledge to Lead

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Under the Paris Agreement, the world has pledged to limit global temperature increases with the aim of avoiding the worst potential impacts of unmitigated global warming. This goal will require a major societal transformation, leading to the rapid elimination of greenhouse gas emissions. We, as individuals in the Concordia community, have a key role to…

Sustainable Business Plan Competition

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John Molson’s Sustainable Business Group is a well-organized graduate student organization at Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB). Essentially, JMSB graduate students are developing skills which will likely one day put them in a position of power; over business decisions, over the planet, and over people. Our goal is to ensure JMSB graduates…

Unsettling: A Self-Examination for Non-Indigenous People Working in Indigenous Contexts

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“Unsettling: A self-examination for non-Indigenous people working in Indigenous contexts” is a series of three events that will take place at the Concordia Conference Centre between February and September 2019. Participants will include Concordia alumni, students, staff, and faculty from various disciplines, as well as professionals who are currently engaged with Indigenous groups and communities.…

Rap Battle Against Sexual Violence & Rap Battle For Black History Month

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The Rap Battle Against Sexual Violence, is aimed at raising awareness on sexual violence by breaking isolating patterns of a silencing culture. In collaboration with the Concordia Student Union (CSU) this showcase seeks to emphasize our shared narratives by bringing an empowering conscious and healing conversation around the topic of Sexual Violence. This intentional space…

SHED

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The SHED aims to promote a culture of change around reuse through furniture upcycling, tool literacy and collaborative consumption. In its full form, the SHED will provide an accessible space to transform and repair usable but previously unwanted materials, with a key focus on furniture. Members will be invited to participate in a series of…

SEIZE – Social Economy Incubator Basic Curriculum

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The Basic Curriculum of the Solidarity Economy Incubator Project will provide an annual cohort of Concordia students with a grounding in the history and current issues of the global solidarity economy movement. Workshop participants will learn critical tools for analyzing the current market economy. The course will cover examples of alternatives all over the world,…

Women & Homelessness Symposium

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This symposium invites students and faculty members alike to share and to co-create new knowledge by actively engaging in collaborative workshops, panels, and discussions with policy makers, as well as Montreal shelters and organisations that support homeless women. The symposium’s goal is to highlight current gaps in addressing women’s homelessness in Montreal from a gender…

School Schmool

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Beginning in 1994, School Schmool sought to bring together information, profiles of student and community groups, as well as practical tools of use to all students, in particular to those interested in social justice, equity, and sustainability issues. The purpose of School Schmool is to publish an accessible, recyclable, advertising-free, activist day planner for students. Our mandate…

Waste Not, Want Not Compost Project

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“Waste Not, Want Not” is a collaboration between students, faculty (Loyola Sustainability Research Center, LSRC), and administration, to better integrate composting in everything that we do. We propose a 3-track approach to establishing a complete compost cycle at Concordia: a) Access to composters, and qualified operators, within reach (currently Concordia composts at a facility in…

Queer CATs – Speaker Series on Sexual and Gender Diversity in Mental Health Professions

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This speaker series is organized by a group of Creative Arts Therapy graduate students at Concordia to offer supplementary special topics education regarding sexual and gender diversity. These are important issues which are not adequately covered in current course curricula but are essential considerations for training culturally sensitive therapists. As a population with a high…
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