A man died overnight on Saturday after being stabbed in the neck in Cote-des-Neiges.

Residents found him unconscious in the corner of Barclay and Decelles. They tried to help him with his wound while the police was called.

There are no eyewitnesses to the stabbing so far. Police have no suspects and will go door-to-door to find out more.

The borough has seen many acts of violence in the past weeks. This is the city’s twenty-seventh murder of the year.

While the question of when and not if Federal Deputy Leader of the NDP Thomas Mulcair will run for party leadership floats around, he took the time to stop by and convince some Concordia students that the NDP is still a contender even after Jack Layton’s gone.

Joel Balsam reports:

When Thomas Mulcair walked into the small conference hall at the Maritime Hotel in downtown Montreal Friday, he took the time to shake the hands of everyone in the room.

He asked them all their names, but really, he wants them to know his.

Read by Joshua Nemeroff

Produced by Erica Bridgeman

Stories written by Joel Balsam and Erica Bridgeman

A frosh event created a stir Thursday as students from Université de Montréal were filmed in blackface while dressed in the colours of the Jamaican flag. They chanted about marijuana and Rastafarianism. Playing up well-known stereotypes of the Central-American nation.

The costumes were in honour of the annual athletic week to promote student involvement in sports. But one Mcgill law student was deeply offended. He is considering filing a human rights complaint.

Thousands of beers, burgers and buns later the Concordia Student Union Orientation comes to a close this weekend.

Expect VP Finance Jordan Lindsay to be counting pennies to see if the CSU stayed with their ambitious two hundred and seventy thousand dollar budget. A hundred-and fifty thousand of which coming from student fees. Previous CSUs have spent nearly twice as much. But they also had more popular and expensive concert headliners.