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Transform Your Workplace, Save the Planet Panel

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On the evening of February 11, 2020, labour organizers from across Canada will be speaking in Montreal about how organized labour can respond to the climate crisis. These organizers will be discussing some of Canada’s most ambitious initiatives to simultaneously address climate change, diminish social inequalities, and increase democratic participation. We will be bringing together…

Social Justice in Creative Arts Therapies Project

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The Social Justice in Creative Arts Therapies Project is a student-led initiative that focuses on providing social justice informed educational and community building opportunities for students. In response to a need for representation, understanding, and belonging, two student-led groups have formed as branches of our graduate association: CATSOCA (Creative Arts Therapies Students of Colour Alliance)…

AI and Democracy Panel

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As part of a requirement for a School of Public Affairs course, 4 students will host a panel on the incoming impacts of artificial intelligence on democracy. There will be 4 panelists from various spheres of work including; a governmental worker, a Concordia professor, a MILA tech developer, and an advocate from the Montreal Ethics…

Anti- Colonial Week

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Anti-Colonial Week started as the Anti-Colonial Dinner in 2015. Since 2018 it has become a week-long event of food, film, and resistance. The annual event is an education and awareness project geared towards Concordia students. The event touches on the impacts of colonization on Indigenous communities and makes connections with social and environmental movements. In…

ICOP – International Social Business Case Competition

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2019-20 2018-19 The ICOP Social Business Case Competition stimulates a culture of community and social responsibility among 70 budding Concordia Business Graduates (MBA & GDBA students). It allows students not only to apply knowledge and skills gained during their studies, but also opens views about a different kind of business model, a departure from the…

Rethinking Africa’s Urban Futures

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Rethinking Africa’s Urban Futures- the second Concordia-McGill African Studies Conference, aims to bring futurists, sustainable development advocates and scholars from various African countries or part of the African diaspora to discuss empirical and policy actions and initiate partnerships among Concordia community and African based scholars to work jointly for a sustainable, prosperous and equitable Africa.…

Tax Clinic

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The Tax clinic is an annual student-run event registered with the CRA’s Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP). Its purpose is to give back to the downtown Montreal community all while enhancing the student life at Concordia University. The majority of the individuals benefiting from our service come from a low-income bracket (many of them…

CURE- Community-University Research Exchange

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CURE is working on developing a website that would help increase accessibility to mental health services by listing racialized mental health professionals. Often, racialized people do not seek support for their mental health needs due to the systemic racism they face as well as stigma in our society. Developing this website would mean offering people…

ConcordAI

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ConcordAI / Artificial Intelligence Concordia organizes free AI Research & Development Mentorship Programs that provide participants from all backgrounds the opportunity to work with exceptional mentors, acquire real-world experience and skills in AI, and to push the boundaries of AI in environmentally sustainable research and development and open innovation projects. In addition to providing experiential…

Queering the Map

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Queering The Map (QTM) is a community generated digital counter-mapping project that aims to archive fleeting moments of queer existence and resistance in relation to physical space. Participants of the project anonymously share stories of queer significance and locate them on the map with a drop-pin. The project intends to leave ‘queerness’ open to endless…
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