Reading Time: 2 minutes“Selling out” by allowing Apple to use your music in a commercial or by accepting a popular award isn’t a negative thing at all. In fact, it allows musicians to reach more people with their words and their lessons.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis technology could save thousands of lives annually in Canada alone, and it should be available to those who need it as soon as possible.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPresently, the OPS has released a public service announcement on the subject of frexting that will circulate across Ottawa throughout the fall. The advertisement promotes the use of Bluetooth technology while parkouring. It is hoped that this method—entitled hands-free running—will reduce the number of parkouring-related collisions and make the sidewalks safe again.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa might maintain the outwardly appearance of a well-disciplined princess, ably welcoming foreign diplomats with dignity and decorum, but the great thing about Ottawa is that this little princess hides special brownies under the floorboards and blasts angry, rebellious metal in her bedroom late at night when all the public servants have gone to bed.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe legislation also seems to assume that people with religious convictions are bound to bring them into the workplace. Well, news flash: our attire does not change our ability to be neutral, nor will removing our religious symbols strip us from our religious beliefs.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI believe the capture of any animal for entertainment purposes should be considered “morally unacceptable,” regardless of how intelligent we believe them to be. No animal should be forced, for our own entertainment, to live within a confined enclosure outside of their natural environment except if they are injured, sick, endangered, or abandoned.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe A7 chip will allow the CPU of the 5S to run up to 40 times faster than the original iPhone. The iPhone 5 only ran 39 times as fast.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an ideal world, our expectations and depictions of each other would reflect equality. I realize we have quite a long way to go before that ideal becomes a reality, but videos like “Defined Lines” will get us there faster. Videos like “Blurred Lines” will only keep us stuck in the same harmful pattern we’ve become far too familiar with.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLike all stereotypes, ours limit our true potential. Depicting Canadians in one specific way draws a line in the sand between who can and cannot be considered Canadian. The more strongly we believe in the stereotypical model, the more we come to see real Canadians as different, as not belonging, as unCanadian.
Reading Time: 2 minutesReports show that this institution would cost $50 million to shut down. From an economic point of view, closing it down makes little sense. From a scientific standpoint, we would be losing an invaluable research facility that helped maintain freshwater in Canada and shaped the way the world protects its freshwater supply.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSuddenly the victims of downloading have become much more visible, and they look an awful lot like broke university students. / If all it takes to get us feeling like we’re living on the edge is to download a few songs then I say so what?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt all happened so fast. One minute I was with my friends enjoying a nice burger from the cafeteria, and then suddenly everyone had been transformed into sarcastically dressed monsters eating quinoa from Tupperware
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom an economic perspective, the fees are just another example of the Conservative government impeding the cultivation of the arts in Canada.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI realize that to me, summer vacation means so much more than a break— it’s time to slow down, pay attention, and really live.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe need to dig deeper to understand why we find twerking onstage the most newsworthy phenomenon.
Reading Time: 2 minutesArabs are regular, hard-working people who bleed, laugh, and die the same as everyone else.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis new option makes sense for many students wanting to settle down shortly after university with little money but lots of friends.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor me, this story isn’t really about pushing boundaries. Honi Soit already pushed boundaries when it published an issue with a penis on the cover. The censorship is fundamentally a sexist act.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is something truly wonderful about enjoying the rain instead of worrying about whether or not my assorted electronics will get ruined. I also feel a sense of freedom when I go exploring and see things through two original lenses—my eyes—instead of an Instagram filter.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll of these solutions have merit in theory. But this isn’t theory; this is reality.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re all fat. At least that’s what mainstream media would like us to believe, bombarding us with images of size two models or men with ripped eight-packs in commercials asking us to pay for a gym membership.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI am unaware of anyone who has not felt disgusted and pained by the massacre in Newtown. How is it possible for a man to walk into an elementary school with a legally obtained military assault weapon and open fire on innocent children?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this space, we let you sound off on issues we’ve covered in the Fulcrum. This week we ask some questions about cyber safety.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, let’s make a promise to each other. Instead of passing by the brightly coloured elections posters, let’s read them.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJust ask anyone who’s been hacked. The downside to getting digital can be disastrous.
