Email and unintended rudeness
DEAR MS. FAKE,
I received your email detailing your ideas about how email is a passive aggressive mode of communication. If I’m going to be honest, I must say I disagree.
Conducting business with professors, ...
Blood, brains, and coping with mortality
IT’S NO SECRET that religion is largely on its way out—at least amongst North Americans. Though a whopping 77 per cent of Canadians identified as Christian on the last census that measured religious affiliation...
Cashing in on a casino in Ottawa
ON MARCH 12, the Ontario government announced their decision to begin accepting private-sector bids for the opening of a fully outfitted casino within Ottawa city limits. This isn’t the first time there have be...
Soundtrack to my life: A defence of iPod users
BIRDS CHIRPING, CAR engines revving, first years griping: These are the sounds of the U of O campus. And after five years of hanging around listening to the same tired soundtrack, it gets boring.
Confession:...
Arts lists
Top five best used bookstores in Ottawa
1. Book Bazaar
Since 1974, this family-run bookstore has provided a unique mix of gently used books at fair prices.
2. All Books
Carrying both used and new books ...
Features lists
Top five worst backhanded compliments
1. “You’re so brave. I would never have the guts to try such a unique hairstyle.”
Cue to you buying fourteen different hats to hide your “unique” hair under until it gr...
What’s in a print medium?
A FACT LITTLE known amongst University of Ottawa students is that their own beloved campus newspapers are members of a greater organization of student news media called Canadian University Press (CUP). This pas...
What’s your opinion on…
Cool habitat, bro
THANKS TO THE miracle of Apple products, orangutans at the Toronto Zoo may be getting a lot more social. The zoo is next in line for a program that gives iPads to the massive monkeys so they ...
What’s your opinion on…
Oh, Vladimir, you turn a girl’s head
A SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE political campaign has been launched by Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin and his camp. The adverts play on the concept of first-time voters as vi...
What’s your opinion on…
Spare the rod, or get it in the back of the head later
A NEW STUDY was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that found individuals who experience physical punishment during their childhood are...