Reading Time: 3 minutes “The modern sugar daddy is a successful and generous man who is willing to pamper and offer financial help or gifts to a young person in return for friendship and companionship.” Oh, and don’t worry, boys, there are plenty of sugar mamas on the website too.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAn electoral system that encourages voter apathy is hardly what our country should strive for. So what’s the solution? Reform.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo add insult to injury, Simone was celebrated for her Afro-centric looks and penned songs about racism, and was a major player in the civil rights movement. So why does Hollywood feel the need to “whitewash” her character?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith an increasing number of Canadians being diagnosed with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and other serious diet-related illnesses, the OMA’s latest campaign is pushing for change.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll of these statements have one thing in common: they fall under the umbrella of conspiracy theories.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I looked at one VHS in particular, I began thinking back to the documentaries we watched in class at my old high school, and then a thought struck me: We don’t teach politics enough.
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 minutesThe Grand Old Party’s online video campaign was an instant success, creating more interest than ever in the party’s policies.
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 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 minutes It’s difficult to define our age group by a couple of sentences—especially when most of us are meandering young adults just starting to discover who we really are. But, undeniably, there are a few distinct things about our generation that makes us, well, us.
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 minutesAs I walk around our great city, I can’t help but notice a trend: cyclists are douchebags. Now I do realize that there are many cyclists out there who are nice people, but the majority of them are assholes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut apart from all the grammar help, the Fulcrum has taught me valuable lessons that can’t be learned in a classroom.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow Twitter defined norovirus outbreak ON JAN. 11, the Fulcrum editorial board and a group of its staff and volunteers set out for a national student journalism conference in Victoria, B.C. By Jan. 14, a large portion of our delegation fell ill with what turned out to be a small-scale outbreak of a highly contagious …
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo students sound off on the facial hair-focused campaign It’s time for men to throw out their razors and women to start constructing felt ‘staches. That’s right—it’s Movember again, which means moustaches for all! Currently in its fourth year as a formal Canadian charity campaign, Movember has thousands of men across the country growing their …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSites push subway voyeurism to an all-time low GENTLEMEN, I WOULD like you to picture something for me. Imagine you are sitting on the subway, having a coffee and playing Angry Birds when, unbeknownst to you, a mysterious figure snaps your picture and sends it to a website where your looks are judged and …
