Reading Time: 2 minutesTaking part in General Assemblies, BOA meetings, and elections will take up a relatively small amount of your time, and are an easy way to start fixing these problems.
Op-Ed
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a time pervaded by “alternative facts” and general disagreement on topics as basic as whether or not the economy is doing well, we owe it to people to present useful information.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis boring bottleneck is the sole pipeline for improving the SFUO—so let’s make sure it’s not full of garbage.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the face of lies and “alternative facts,” journalists need to be very judicious about what they report, and fund investigations to get to the real facts.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough celebrities have full right to a political opinion and a political voice as citizens, the size of the platform available to them has high potential for abuse.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe comptroller’s position takes its strength from the idea of balance. If the problem is part of the board, then the comptroller can expose it. If the problem is the comptroller, then the board as a whole can see through it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow many great works of literature would never have been written because someone decreed that making faster computers was a more worthwhile endeavor?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdding 10 extra faculty seats to the BOA would bring down our ratio to about 1,000 students per rep—not only giving students more representation, but giving students more chances to get involved.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDriverless cars are going to be the future, whether we like it or not. So we should make sure that that future benefits Canadians—and that means embracing AI behind the wheel.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBeing constantly connected to your work causes an incredible amount of stress with no tangible benefits.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPaying attention to political scandals in Canada will play a central role in keeping our democracy strong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA “tasteful” plaque is very different than the type of “corporate branding” you might see on a race car.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf a motion with legal bearing can be shared in a BOA meeting, there is no legal reason it can’t be shared outside of it, since these kinds of gatherings are open to the public.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGiven the potential benefits of the technology, Canada needs to think big and embrace the potential of drones, similar to what our neighbours to the south are doing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDropping coal by 2030 is a good step, but Canada needs to take advantage of other policies as well to make a significant impact.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUntil the SFUO is in a better position to have the time and funds to properly manage a student bar, they should take a knee.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMandatory voting is certainly something to study for the future, but given our current lack of information and resources at the U of O, the discussion should remain theoretical for the time being.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis kind of police spying attacks whistleblowers, and it only serves to maintain an indecent shroud of secrecy that ultimately makes a mockery of our society and the people that the police are supposed to serve.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt becomes more and more important that a greater number of students be given an effective voice—that means being able to vote on policy—and not just a passive role every year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost students don’t understand what’s going on, so by organizing such an official sit-down session on campus they could answer important questions like: why is free tuition important?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the current world being in such a state of economic instability, where every change seems significant compared to the relatively stagnant past 15 years, maybe it’s a time for a new era of trade agreements.
Reading Time: 4 minutesPeople in power must be aware and responsible for the influence and impact their rhetoric has, especially in tense times.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy failing to provide that hammer, the government continues to enable the violent conduct of Canadian mining companies in Latin America.
Reading Time: 2 minutesObviously, a single OPP investigation pales in comparison to the troves of data held by CSIS, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t similarities, especially if the OPP expands its use of bulk gathering phone numbers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a bilingual university, and as such any effort to promote its bilingualism should be encouraged, not rejected.
