Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s a natural journalistic response to want to attach a human face to tragedy, and use that to create empathy in viewers and readers. But that desire for a human face also has to be balanced with the knowledge that these are human beings in a dangerous and desperate situation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYet, while they say they are on the side of students, the federation has taken numerous actions to strip power away from the voices they represent. In the past few months alone, the SFUO has done everything from increasing their own salaries to reducing the power of the General Assembly (GA), and most recently, threatening the funding of federated bodies. Oh, and let’s not forget the resignation of an exec just two months into his mandate.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis document contains many promising ideas that could improve life for several different types of students. However, it also fails to provide a clear roadmap to achieve to these goals in a lot of places.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa police, please scrap the wristbands and start salvaging your relationship with the black community and the city of Ottawa at large.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the end of the day, academic fraud is a serious crime that has been neglected by students for years. It’s time universities take action and show the seriousness of this act.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf people are using a dating app, they may very well be using more than one, or even way more than one, or alternating between them. Why limit their choices?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe need to be more critical of the methods we use to measure health, especially since different people have different goals, from getting a good summer body to training for a powerlifting competition.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether or not the climate in student politics is boiling or balmy, the GA is a useful tool for you to help fix problems you see in our student union.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHamilton is at least moving in the right direction with their new education based approach to regulating predatory payday loans.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Icelandic government will introduce new legislation this month to eradicate the pay gap between all forms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy shouldn’t the government use an inanimate object that belongs to nobody to offer someone a concrete chance at extending their life?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile everyone is proposing grandiose ideas to fix the student federation, we might as well talk about some simple structural changes that will make further reform easier.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough the Canadian health care system covers all essential medical services for residents, medication and prescriptions are not covered by this plan.
Reading Time: 2 minutesClosed, cautious, protectionist societies can only stand still for so long until the currents of time will sweep them off their feet.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAre dumb phones the way of the future? Probably not. Will they ultimately replace your far-more-capable smartphone? Also not likely. But that doesn’t mean they can’t play a useful role in your life, at least for a while.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf a candidate’s political campaign has boiled down exclusively to their fame, it may be worth asking if they are really qualified for the position of prime minister in the first place.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPiracy provides a way for people in extreme poverty or living under oppressive regimes to experience art that would be totally beyond their reach otherwise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a time where personal genetic technology is advancing, and companies like 23andMe are offering such services to the public, it’s imperative that Canadians have legislation to protect them against the misuse of this technology.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Canadian pension system is a complex puzzle that will take a lot of effort to solve, so let’s not assume we know the answer before we’re done asking the question.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnder this new proposal, journalists who frequent the press gallery would be screened by the RCMP with fingerprinting and criminal background checks, and could be denied access if the police deem necessary.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWomen have only received nine nominations for producer of the year over the past ten years, and no nominations at all for engineer of the year. Men won 53 and 55 respectively.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAssuming that businesses have a responsibility to follow the political consensus, no matter how much sense that consensus makes, is dangerous.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you want to spend money to patch the hole in the ship, don’t simply hand the captain a bag of doubloons and expect the vessel to stay afloat.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is extensive evidence connecting unhealthy food and beverage advertisements to an increased consumption of these products which causes obesity and an increased risk of diabetes and cancer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe agreement assumes that the U.S. has, and will continue to have, good asylum policies. The new Trump administration is making a very good case against that assumption.
