Guide to All ssmu groups

A club dedicated to celebrating Iraqi culture.

MISA is the student association representing the Iranian student community at McGill University. Our main goal at MISA is promoting unity and friendship among the Iranian students through our different activities.

Our main goal is to promote understanding of the Japanese culture to everyone at McGill. You do not have to be Japanese and you don't need to speak Japanese to join! If you are interested in the culture and the people, we are waiting to see you at our events that we organize throughout the year.

A group dedicated to celebrating Korean culture.

A group dedicated to celebrating Lebanese culture.

A group of Malaysian & Singaporean students that come together to create a community and promote SEA culture on campus.

MANABA (the McGill Association of North American Born Asians) is one of the largest and most diverse Asian student clubs at McGill University. We have over 350 members each year, with backgrounds from all over the world and even Mixes too! Together we strive to unite McGill’s diverse Asian community and anyone who’s interested in a warm social environment with tons of opportunities to meet people, raise cultural awareness, eat amazing food and have straight-up FUN.

For all the McGill Mauritian Students Association's members, Friends, Execs, Alumni, ex-Execs, groupies, etc. Get updated with the club's events and other Mauritian happenings in town!

For more than thirty years, the Pakistani Students Association has committed itself to bringing the vitality and vibrancy of Pakistani life to the McGill community. Today, the organization is still fundamentally dedicated to three main objectives:

1. Educating the McGill community about what Pakistan, its culture, and its people have to offer to the greater world.

2. Establishing a forum to discuss political and social issues which directly involve Pakistan.

3. Creating a social fabric to connect students of all majors and interests through the experience and celebration of Pakistani culture.
Polish Students' Association (MPSA) - Facebook

The McGill Polish Student Association, otherwise known as the MPSA, welcomes a growing number of new faces every semester. This year, the club expects its highest turnout yet, so satisfy your curiosity by signing up for a Polish cultural, social, and educational experience. The MPSA provides its members with guest speakers, meet and greets, parties, polish lessons, and excursions (just to name a few). Also, the association keeps it interesting by adding new events to the itinerary; last year, we introduced polish cooking lessons, which turned out to be a great success. Yum! This club is designed to enhance your university experience the polish way! Zapraszamy!

Anyone who is interested in Russian language and culture or meeting other students in Russian Studies at McGill is welcome to join. While putting on Russian movie screenings and offering Russian language classes, this club is definitely something to look into!

WELCOME to the Spanish and Latin American Student Association of McGill University!!!

This non-exclusive club seeks to integrate all the latin-lovers and (spanish-lovers) out there for the purpose of socializing, having a good time, practicing/learning spanish, as well as getting to know our culture. This year our team is back with incredible new ideas, events and lots of motivation to enhance your McGill experience and spread the Latin and Spanish culture! Make sure to note that this group used to be called S.A.L.S.A in the past, but it is now SLASA McGill! Please help us to introduce our new name and our fabulous new logo!!!
Swiss Club – Facebook

Believe it or not, of the 7.6 million swiss, there are a quite a few at McGill! So, they got together and made a SSMU club. We are a non-exclusive club that organizes fondue nights, chocolate appreciation days, sledding, movie nights, ski-trips, and to offer a way for students to find other Swiss friends. We also encourage the non-swiss to learn about the beautiful alpine country of Switzerland.

The McGill Taiwanese Students’ Association (MTSA) is the one and only Taiwanese student community at McGill University. Our main goal is to promote the most exciting and essential parts of Taiwanese culture and to forge a strong and open student community around it. While we pride ourselves yearly in our past and continuing commitments to our members and their interests, we hope this year to reinvent areas of this association by focusing on a unique, multicultural approach to our rich culture. Our short-term plan is to help new members adapt to campus life through events, such as our traditional welcome party, talent show, ski trip, formal dance, Chinese New Year dinner, and other various gatherings.

TAMill's mission is to promote Tamil culture, language and awareness within the McGill Community, increase solidarity within the multi-nation Tamil Community of McGill University, foster and strengthen unity and amity with other community organizations both within and outside McGill University. We also see to provide a gateway of resources and knowledge to all members in getting familiar with the Tamil Association.

A club dedicated to celebrating Turkish culture.

The McGill Ukrainian Students' Association (MUSA) explores Ukrainian customs, traditions, food and culture. We hold dancing lessons, language and cooking workshops, send students on foreign exchanges to Ukraine, raise money for Ukrainian orphans & victims of the Chornobyl' Nuclear disaster and hold commemorations for the 1932-33 Famine-Genocide (remembering the 10 million victims of Stalin's murder by starvation). We are a member of the Ukrainian Canadian University Students Union (SUSK), and along with other Ukrainian clubs seek to further develop Ukrainian culture in Canada's multicultural mosaic.

Mission statement: to construct an organic recycling plan for the McGill community, because composting is a necessity and a responsibility. Available on both downtown and Macdonald campus.

Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience. We also educate and engage the public. Greenpeace seeks to:

Protect biodiversity in all its forms

Prevent pollution of the Earth’s oceans, land, air and fresh water

End all nuclear threats

Promote peace, global disarmament and non-violence.

Sells mostly locally picked produce and dried goods at cost. Their counter is on the 2nd floor of Shatner; check the fbook page and website for a full schedule. They are also active in food politics and environment issues.

The Plate Club is McGill's highly acclaimed reusable dish provider. If you are hosting a wine & cheese, or similar event, don't buy disposable plastic wine glasses and styrofoam plates! Just call up the Plate Club. We have several hundred plates, glasses, cutlery, all in different styles. There is no charge—but we do require a nominal deposit on the loan. The cost of lost dishes will be deducted from your deposit. We are currently transitioning into becoming a full-thrown service.

The Flat is a collective that works to encourage cycling through the sharing of knowledge and tools. The Flat Bike Collective seeks to make bicycling more accessible, provide a welcoming environment, minimize our environmental impact, and promote a greater sense of community.

The goal of this non-profit student organization would be to promote anime and manga subculture in the campus of the University. We would like to create a network to allow all the students that share an interest for anime, manga and their surrounding to be able to meet each others in a relaxed atmosphere. Moreover, we would like to introduce new students to this exciting and diverse artistic world that would gain to be better known."

A club for aviation lovers. Take flight young McGillians!

A club for billiards lovers. Come hang out with the hombres at Gerts during your next spare!

The Bridge Club was founded in August 2005 and generally meets once or twice a week for relaxed, friendly games. New players are always welcome to drop by at any of our meetings to pick up the basics and start playing. Of course, new members of any level are also always welcome. In addition to our weekly meetings we hold other events such as bridge lessons for new players to learn, as well as duplicate bridge tournaments.

A gclub dedicated to the art of car tuning. Claim your manliness by joining this club!

A club chess lovers. Holds regular meetings and tournaments.

A club dedicated to celebrating different types of cuisine.

A club for fencing lovers, and for the uber intense.

A club for fetish and kink enthusiasts.

For over 30 years, the Gamers Guild of McGill University has been the premier club on campus where enthusiasts of roleplaying games (RPGs), board games, and other hobbies get together to have fun.

A club for people who love playing Go, which is a game played with 2 ppl with a 19x19 grid board. Players use black and white stones. You want to surround as much territory as possible. At the end, the person with the more land wins. It is a very popular game in Asia. Come and join the fun!

McGill's very own Origami club, the Paper Shapers! A lovely way to get your mind off of stressful examination periods and the like.

An exciting SSMU club that allows all members to attend varsity games for free! With planned tail-gaters, pep rallies, and bus trips, you DO NOT want to miss a chance to support some great university sports teams. With a guaranteed good time, you should sign up now (mcgillredthunder@gmail.com) to get a fan pack and free entrance to games and events! Join the wild hoards of thunderites and remember to bring your game face! GO RED GO!

A group for poker lovers and players.

For ping pong lovers.

For lovers of traditional Chinese martial arts.

A club that holds trivia events.

The McGill Daily, in production for almost 100 years, is an independent student newspaper on campus at McGill University and is entirely run by volunteers. Currently, we publish twice weekly, on Mondays and Thursdays and bring out a French edition weekly aswell.

The McGill Tribune (familiarly known as the Tribs) is an independent newspaper published weekly that covers news, features, arts & entertainment and sports. The Tribune publishes on Tuesdays from September to April. Its current circulation is 11,000 copies on the downtown campus. If you are a McGill student and would like to contribute to the paper, no experience is necessary.

Old McGill is the SSMU’s official Yearbook. Each year Old McGill tries to capture the year in events of the graduating class.

The Red Herring is a comedy magazine run by students at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Numerous prestigious writers have contributed to the magazine in its 20 years of existence. Notables include John Rogers, screenwriter for the film “The Transformers” (2007).

Each year the SSMU publishes a handbook filled with anything and everything you might need to know about life as a student at McGill, living in Montreal. The handbook contains sections pertaining to SSMU, McGill, Student Life (useful advice on how to live cheaply, where to eat on campus, and generally how to make the most of your stay as a student), Health, Clubs & Services, Montreal and finally Reviews. The SSMU publishes over 8000 copies of the handbook each academic year, but hurry because they go REALLY fast.

TVMcGill is the outlet for McGill's new media producers. TVMcGill is an independently, student run television station and production company that aims to become an intricate part of the McGill community. We, at TVMcGill, work hard to provide entertainment and news for the McGill community. The organization relies on student-produced content and strives to show the community how they can produce their own. We broadcast throughout Montreal campuses, online, and on closed circuit television on Campus. It is the university's only outlet for student filmmakers and producers.

CKUT is a non-profit, campus-community radio station based at McGill University. CKUT provides alternative music, news and spoken word programming to the city of Montreal and surrounding areas, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Hear us at 90.3 MHz on the FM dial, 91.7 by cable, or listen on-line.

Now in its 50th year at McGill, AIESEC is the world's largest student-run organization, specializing in personal and professional development and the Global Internship Program. If you are looking to develop your professional skills, get international experience and build a global network, then AIESEC McGill is for you!

We are an executive of 6 members voted by you to voice first-year opinions to SSMU, external organizations, and the people who design your academic programs. We intend to fulfill our posts with a spirit of improving the first-year experience and the experiences of future first-year students through a variety of events.

GCC is already the world's largest U.S.-China student organization, and has established partnerships with numerous companies and organizations both in China and the U.S. to ensure its members and program participants the best opportunities available. Through intensive collaboration between GCC's experienced administrative staff in China, as well as its extensive chapter network, GCC McGill offers you the opportunity to make life-changing relationships and play a role in China's future.

As the International Relations Students’ Association of McGill, our mission is to offer an apolitical forum for university students to express their interest in international affairs, and in the United Nations and its goals specifically, to educate and develop an awareness of the United Nations in the local, national, and international communities, and to provide its members with the opportunity to contribute to international development in a positive way through participation in activities organized and/or accredited by the corporation.

IGLC is the unifying body for Fraternities and Sororities at McGill. The IGLC creates a forum to increase unity and coordinate activities within the Greek community. We are drawn together through our goals of community service, leadership, friendship, and scholarship.

MISN is a service, meaning, more than just a club or an association. We're linked to McGill University and SSMU and are part of the social infrastructure set up to welcome and help international students. MISN organizes language exchanges, movie nights, conferences, and reduced-rate trips.

The McGill Mature/Re-entry Students' Association (MRSA) is an informal support group and social network associated with the University's academic arrangements for mature and re-entry students. The MRSA's members come from a host of different backgrounds and pursue various courses of study. Members are encouraged to make use of the lounge to meet others students, study, or just decompress before, in between, or after class.

SOAR (Student Organization for Alumni Relations) is a group dedicated to improving relations amongst past, present and future students of McGill. As the student branch of the Alumni Association, SOAR works towards maximizing the university experience by giving students unique opportunities to get involved, meet new people, build essential leadership skills and have fun. Find out more at www.soarmcgill.ca or contact soar.alumni@mcgill.ca.

Founded in March 2003, the McGill Speed Dating Club is the first university club of its kind, devoted to helping McGill students meet, interact, and establish relationships, while maintaining a fun and casual atmosphere.

Conservative McGill strives to bring together conservatively-minded McGill students and make members aware of Conservative Party stances. Another main goal of the society is cultivating students’ interest in politics and public policy. It does so through involving them with local Conservative associations and both partisan and non-partisan think tanks. Activities on campus include receptions, speaker events, movie screenings, debates and social outings which allow members to discover and appreciate the beautiful city of Montreal.

Our mission is to encourage Americans living in Canada and the United States to voice their political opinions through voting and speaking for their views. We accomplish this through voter registration, sponsoring debates, encouraging media contact and by visiting states to volunteer in key races.

A group for supporters of the Green Party, whose main values are:

1. Ecological Wisdom

2. Social Justice

3. Participatory Democracy

4. Non-Violence

5. Sustainability

6. Respect for Diversity

Liberal McGill is the official arm of the Liberals Party of Canada (YLC) on campus at McGill University; it is accredited by the Young Liberals of Canada (Quebec) and recognized by the Student’s Society of McGill University (SSMU) as the representative organization of all McGill University students who are members of the YLC.

The New Democratic Party is a social democratic party that is dedicated to defending social justice and equity, a clean and healthy environment and the protection of our social programs. As the McGill campus club of the party, we are here to get the word out about what we stand for, educate students about the pressing issues of the day, and take part in broader progressive struggles at McGill and in the broader community.

The Club’s mandate shall be to

- Serve as the official representative of the Liberal Party of Quebec at McGill University

- Promote the LPQ and its fundamental values at McGill

- Create a forum for the discussion of political, economic, social, and environmental issues pertaining to Quebec and to Canada

- Organize events such as debates, conferences, and cocktails chaired by prominent figures in Quebec politics

A club supporting anarchy.

Animal Liberties is McGill's Animal Rights student group. Our main aims are raising awareness about animal rights and speciesism, vegan outreach, and the creation of a vegan community on campus. Activities include tabling, bake sales, a vegan newsletter (the McGill Vegan), demanding transparency of McGill's animal testing policies and veg*n networking in Montreal. Animal advocacy needs all the voices and talents available and we welcome input from anyone interested.

Our group is dedicated to building a community for those adhering to secular worldviews - humanists, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and freethinkers of all denominations. What binds us is the special emphasis we place on values, ethics and decision-making based on unrestricted rational discourse and human experience, and our desire to show that such ways of life are every bit as ethical, optimistic and satisfying as those based on religious faith. We strive to promote science, reason, critical inquiry, and promote the reliance on evidence and freedom of inquiry in public affairs. We engage in activism to encourage the application of these methodologies in all levels of education, in media, and in governmental matters.