Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a rule of thumb, if you don’t care about something enough to personally organize a fundraising event for that cause, keep it off my Facebook, and stop guilt tripping me into “liking” it.
Op-Ed
Reading Time: 3 minutesTrying to prevent global warming, and trying to make the environment a better place, means that everyone must collectively and consciously try at all times… but when a bigger, more visible issue threatens our Canadian ecosystem, we do take notice.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ll probably never know if the floppy, shiny, sponge-like substance was egg, tofu, cheese, or something else entirely, but I am sure of one thing: it certainly wasn’t edible, yet a Première Moisson employee handed it to me last Monday morning and took my five dollars in return.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m not advocating provoking people by using questionable language, these examples are just a reality of our too-sensitive, too-politically correct society.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s an anti-movement going on right now, and it’s subtler than you think. This movement is our fear of feminism.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe should get to know Trudeau outside of his father’s shadow and legacy. Who is he? What makes him tick? What are his grand visions for our great land?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInstead of pictures of people downhill skiing or doing impressive snowboarding jumps, the Snowjam poster depicts three half-naked women desperately vying for the attention of one man.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBritish comedian Stephen Fry put it best when he said, “An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library is full of them.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesGreece needs a bailout, now it’s Portugal, and don’t forget Ireland. Could Spain go under? God forbid Italy should fail, with an economy worth 16 per cent of the entire euro zone gross domestic product (GDP). This struggle seems to be dragging on and on, and growing. To the foreign observer here in Canada, it is all starting to get rather tedious.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I snapped back to reality, I was met with the sound of hundreds of keyboard keys being furiously tapped. It made me feel so tiny, lost in a vast sea of clicking.
Reading Time: 2 minutes[P]atriotism and nationalism are constructs and are therefore, by definition, manufactured. They are ideas that we think about, ideas to which we emotionally attach ourselves and connect our life experiences. They are ideas that help us understand who we are.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDr. Google has become convenient, perhaps a little too convenient. In fact, according to recent studies, 80 per cent of people who visit health and medical websites self-diagnose on a regular basis. It’s as simple as quickly searching your symptoms and finding out what disease you’ve just contracted. In a matter of minutes, you have the answer to your most troubling questions.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut what gets me is Wente being allowed to publish another column like nothing happened.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThey’re cutting edge, but most importantly, they’re cool. You do not listen to their music. Therefore, you are not cool.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is no secret that we English Quebecers feel a certain disconnect with our own province. This disconnect explains why we turn the television off when Jean Charest or Pauline Marois come on and why we choose any activity over heading to a ballot box.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMcGill University PhD candidate Katie Pagnucco worries that Marois doesn’t respect or even want anglophone students in the province. Pagnucco is right to worry. Marois has been vocal about her intentions to introduce francophone policies that won’t be good for English speakers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCanada has always been known for its peacekeeping political stance. This country has been referred to as an “honest broker” in its past relations with the Middle East. What does this sudden development between Canada and Iran mean regarding the future of this diplomatic tradition?
Reading Time: 2 minutesRegardless of political finger-pointing or posturing, the events that transpired in Montreal are a tragedy. No matter how careful we are to tone down our rhetoric or find common ground in the wake of a crisis, there will always be individuals whose motivations we cannot fully understand.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Obesity isn’t the kind of thing where one day you wake up and you’re fat.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn fact, one person I spoke to who had deleted his profile described how a Facebook group was set up in his honour asking whether he was dead or not because, obviously, life can’t go on without Facebook. Or can it?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut because frosh week targets such a specific group of students, it ends up alienating other groups. And school spirit, which should exist all year round, becomes a manufactured byproduct of frosh—a product with a short shelf life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI come from a rural town in the west of Ireland, where about 95 per cent of the population is Irish and Caucasian, so Ottawa was quite a culture shock for me. No two people are in any way similar, and I love it!
Reading Time: 2 minutesShould the University of Ottawa follow suit and buck our A+s in favour of high honours? In a word, no.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBigger companies generate more revenue, and successful businesses usually dominate the marketplace. This belief has led to many company mergers over the past 50 years.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThey hit each other with sticks. They call each other names I can’t write in this paper. They all carry toy guns, even the toddler whose plastic shotgun drags on the ground because it’s a good six inches taller than he is.
