The Queen’s Journal, Issue 21, was originally intended to be our first Black History Month Issue. While we campaigned for Black contributors and planned extensive Black History Month content, we were unable to garner the amount of engagement from Black students we had hoped for.
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This past November, The Journal formed its first BIPOC Advisory Board. An idea first suggested by Aysha Tabassum, incoming co-Editor in Chief and current Features Editor, the Board will bring much needed representation from Queen’s BIPOC community to The Journal’s editorial board.
After taking applications...
It has come to our attention that during an Instagram live on Feb. 5, AMS Executive Presidential candidate of Team TIA Isaac Sahota claimed The Journal did not allow someone to comment on The Journal’s Endorsement editorial, “With the AMS facing steep challenges, Team RTZ is ready to lead.”...
The Journal stands in solidarity with the protests against anti-Black racism and police brutality. We are committed to amplifying the voices of Queen’s students. If you would like a platform to speak on these issues, please contact journal_editors@ams.queensu.ca.
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It has come to our attention that several individuals, whose intent it was to protest a campus event, gained entrance to an Engineering Society conference by falsely claiming they were Journal reporters.
Misrepresenting oneself as a Journal staffer is an abuse of our protections under the AMS Constitution,...
The Journal’s editors were made aware of an open letter from the ASUS Journal of Indigenous Studies (AJIS) on Sunday regarding our newspaper’s land acknowledgement.
Our land acknowledgement, located on the front page of our newspaper, is consistent with Queen’s University’s official acknowledgement...
On behalf of The Journal Editorial Board, I would like to apologize for an article posted earlier this morning.
At The Journal, we strive to give an accurate account of news and events relevant to the University, students and alumni.
This morning, we failed to do that.
In the story “ASUS petitions...
March 26, 2016
The article “Wolfpack rumours spread through Law School” has been removed from our website as it did not meet The Journal’s standards for verification.
While we stand by the individual facts contained in the article, the piece repeated rumours and gave readers an overall impression...