Sometimes you have to talk about Fight Club

By the big story

Posted November 30, 2020 5:11 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

In today’s Big Story podcast, it seemed like a prank posted to social media—but there are witnesses who confirmed that the advertised fight night between McGill University students actually happened. Nobody was hurt, and it might have been a harmless enough story, but it illustrates the challenges first-year students are facing this year in dorms that they joke have become their prisons.

GUEST: Selena Ross, digital reporter, CTV News Montreal

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