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The Link is a Concordia University student newspaper. It was established in 1980 with the merger of the Loyola News and The Georgian. Loyola College had merged with Sir George Williams University in 1974 to form Concordia University. As the result of a referendum in March 1986, The Link became autonomous from the Concordia University Students' Association (CUSA); students agreed to pay a direct fee to finance the operations of the two existing student newspapers, The Link and Concordian.

Montreal's Thomas More Institute was founded in 1946, with 90 students enrolled in six courses. Its aim is to provide opportunities for lifelong learning and liberal education for adults. More than 350 of its students have earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts: 271 from 1948 to 1974 within the context of an association with the Université de Montréal, and 95 since 1975 by virtue of an affiliation with Bishop's University.

Eric O'Connor, S.J., a teacher at Concordia University founding institution Loyola College from 1934-1936 and 1942-1980, was one of the founders of the Thomas More Institute.

The Institute is named after Thomas More (1478-1535), one of the great humanist scholars of the Renaissance. He contributed significantly to that critical shift from the medieval to the modern world by articulating and promoting, for men and women alike, a new concept of education based upon the priority of open inquiry and critical thought. In his view, learning occurs as individuals relate the formulations of the past to questions that point toward the future. The Thomas More Institute reflects this philosophy of education with a strong emphasis on lifelong adult learning.

Source: Thomas More Institute Web site (www.thomasmore.qc.ca)

Claude Willett Thompson was born in Durham, England in 1888. He died in Daytona Beach, Florida February 20, 1973. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University. He moved to Canada in 1911. He fought in World War I. On returning to Canada, he entered the teaching profession at the Old High School for Boys in Quebec City. In 1923 he transferred to the High School of Quebec as senior master in the boys' section. In 1932, he moved to Ottawa and became housemaster at Ashbury College. Claude W. Thompson came to Sir George Williams College in 1933, and during a 25-year career on the full-time staff taught English literature and humanities, first as instructor in English and history, and after 1934 as professor of English. He was appointed senior professor of humanities in 1937. He was appointed assistant dean in 1952. He was the first chair of the English Department. After his retirement he continued to teach part-time for several years. Among other books, he wrote Humanism in Action, published in 1950. He played a major role in developing the Canadiana Collection of the Sir George Williams Library.

Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1959, Russell Thornton is a Canadian poet whose works have appeared in prominent Canadian literary magazines. Thornton has lived in several places including Montreal, Greece, and Wales, before returning to North Vancouver, where he currently lives. He studied under Irving Layton.

Thornton is the author of several books of poetry including With Our Bodies We Write the Name of Light (1994), The Accurate Earth (1997), The Fifth Window (2000), A Tunisian Notebook (2002), House Built of Rain (2003), which was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Price, and the Human Shore (2006). Thornton has been the recipient of numerous poetry prizes including first prize for the League of Canadian Poets National Contest in 2000.

Guy Thouin is a musician and artist born on April 10, 1940, in Montreal. He studied percussion with a private tutor from 1959 to 1960, and during the early 60s, started playing drums at bars in Montreal. He graduated from l’École d’Optique du Québec in 1964 and worked as an optician for a year before he began his studies in fine arts at l‘École des Beaux-arts de Montréal. From 1969 to 1970, Thouin studied classic percussion at McGill University under Pierre Béluse. From 1971 to 1976 he studied Indian music in Pondicherry and Calcutta, India, specializing in Tabla.

In 1967, Guy Thouin, along with Yves Charbonneau, Jean Préfontaine, and Maurice C. Richard, became one of the founding members of Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec, originally known as Quatuor du nouveau jazz libre du Québec. The band played in several Montreal bars, colleges and Universities around Quebec, until they disbanded in 1974. In 1969, Thouin also joined L’Infonie, an avant-garde group where he played with Walter Boudreau and Raôul Duguay until 1971 when Thouin decided to leave both bands to study music in India. After returning to Montreal from India, Thouin rejoined the Montreal jazz scene and collaborated with several artists and musicians, including the band Mirage, which was a Montreal Jazz Festival finalist in 1985. In 1989, he founded the Heart Ensemble, a quintet of guest musicians that performed Guy Thouin’s compositions for over 20 years at cultural centres and bars in Montreal, Ottawa, Joliette, and several other cities around the province of Quebec. Many of these performances were recorded and broadcasted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). In 2012, along with Bryan Highbloom, Thouin founded the Nouveau Jazz Libre du Québec, playing several concerts, including one at the Suoni Pel II Popolo Festival.

Thouin composed Rien ô tout ou linéaire un, an immersive sound experience, while studying at McGill University. This sound environment was created for a work by visual artist Roland Poulin and was exhibited in 1971 at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Since 2015, Guy Thouin continues to compose, play, and perform along with Félix-Antoine Hamel, in a new version of the Heart Ensemble called From the Basement, which invites musicians to play with them in their basement, and explore different avenues of the “free jazz” movement.

Jack Tietolman was born December 25, 1909, and died in Montreal February 24, 1995. He married Deborah Costom with whom he had six children. He had a career of over 40 years' duration in broadcasting. In 1934, he created the General Broadcasting Company. He opened the French-language radio station CKVL in 1946. He was president and principal shareholder of Radio Futura Limited, Verdun Radio Centre Inc., Radiomonde Limitée, Radio and Television Sales Inc., Verdun Import Sales Corporation and other companies; most were related to the promotion of radio stations.

Active in community affairs, Jack Tietolman was a director of Notre-Dame Hospital, the Douglas Hospital, the Montreal YMCA, the Montreal YMHA, and the Canadian Cancer Society. He was a director of the Jewish Hospital of Hope, and president of the Montreal West End Lodge of B'nai Brith. He was a member of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, the Montreal Board of Trade, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and the Quebec Chamber of Commerce. Among other awards, he received L'Ordre de mérite de la culture française and the Outstanding Citizen Award from the Montreal Citizenship Council.

Vincent Tinguely is a writer and performance poet currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 2005, he self-published a novella titled Final Trainwreck of a Lost-Mind Summer. In 2006 he published a chapbook titled Parc Ave. Poems. Tinguely has also written extensively on spoken word and literary events and co-hosted a two radio shows on CKUT 90.3, Victorious & Invincible and Kitchen Kitchen Bang Bang.

Robert Tittler grew up in the Eastern United States and received his doctorate in history from New York University in 1971. He began his career at Concordia University as an assistant professor in the department of History at one its founding institution, Loyola College of Montreal, in 1969, was promoted associate professor in 1975 and full professor in 1981. He served as Chair of the Department of History from 1976 to 1978 and as Graduate Program Director from 1986 to 1989. He took part in various committees both at Concordia and outside the university as well as on numerous editorial and advisory boards. He retired on June 1st, 2005 and was granted the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He specializes in the political, urban, local and art-architectural history of Early Modern Britain, c. 1500-1640 and he has published over 60 scholarly essays and 12 books.

• In 1971, Tittler introduced the idea of Open Forums at Loyola College, for debating current issues and discuss freely current topics falling outside of academic borders.
• In 1986, Tittler was appointed general editor of a series on European urban society published in four volumes by Longman.
• Tittler was named to the Editorial Board of the Toronto-based Records of Early English Drama Publication project in 1987.
• In 1996, Tittler presided as President over the annual meeting of the Northeast Conference on British Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
• He delivered the keynote speech on the topic of ‘Reformation, Collective Memory and Civil Culture in English Provincial Towns’ to the 23rd annual meeting of the Pre-Modern Towns Group in London University in January 1997.
• Along with Michael Maxwell of McGill University, Tittler co-founded the Montreal British History Seminar in 1997, an inter-university venture hearing scholarly papers and attracting speakers from Montreal universities and beyond.
• Tittler was appointed visiting professor of history at Yale University for the spring term (January to May) of 1998.
• He was a key player in the organization of the Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS) held at Concordia University on October 27 and 28, 2000.
• In 2001, Tittler chaired a special committee of the North American Conference on British Studies to study the state of British Studies and British history in Canada with a mandate to work with British Council of Canada on this issue.
• He was elected chair of the executive board of Records of Early English Drama, a Toronto-based international research and publication, in 2003.
• Tittler received a Long Service Award from Concordia University in 2004, honouring his 35 years of service.
• In 2008, Tittler was presented with a festschrift, a commemorative volume of essays celebrating his contributions to the field of English local history.
• Robert Tittler was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017.

Rytsa Helene Tobias, professor of English at Concordia University, was born in Winnipeg on November 7th, 1919 and died in Montreal on April 14th, 2000. She was the daughter of Claire Ripstein Tobias and Norman Cecil Tobias. In 1947, Rytsa enrolled as a night student at Sir George Williams College from which she graduated as a day student in 1951 (BA). Upon her graduation, she received the Birks Medal, as the highest ranking graduating student in Arts, and the Lieutenant-Governor’s Silver Medal for the highest standing in the History Major. Following her graduation, she joined the Sir George Williams faculty as English lecturer in September 1951, was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor in 1956, Associate Professor by 1962 and Full Professor of English, in 1972. From 1972 until her retirement in 1985, Rytsa was to teach English as a full professor at Sir George Williams University and, after its 1974 merger with Loyola College, at Concordia University. The Rytsa Tobias Memorial Medal, successor to the Birks Medal, was endowed by the Tobias Family and is presented by a Tobias Family member to the highest ranking Concordia University student graduating with a BA degree. It was first awarded in 2004.

Donald Tobin graduated from Loyola College in 1936. He was president of the Loyola Alumni Association 1949-1950.