In the end, there just isn’t enough reason to support large increases in the minimum wage. Should there be a minimum wage? Yes. A reasonably high minimum wage? Also yes. But $15 an hour? No.
In the end, there just isn’t enough reason to support large increases in the minimum wage. Should there be a minimum wage? Yes. A reasonably high minimum wage? Also yes. But $15 an hour? No.
The thing is, the Ontario government already recognizes that 16-year-olds can understand the issues and can form independent judgments on them. After all, civics class is taught in grade 10, not in grade 12, for a reason.
Instituting mandatory Indigenous history classes would help ensure students are prepared to make equitable decisions as they start the next chapter of their lives.
Normally these segments are designed to serve as harmless comedic fodder, but most of the time they come across as being condescending and mean-spirited.
Clubs are an integral part of the university experience, and this is why the SFUO cannot settle for poorly managed clubs going forward.
With obesity rates continuing to rise in Britain, more people than ever will be affected by these new restrictions.
Large-scale lobbying by private organizations, whether they are collecting profit or not, can have a harmful influence on democratic discourse, and eventually debilitating effects on governance.
In the Great White North, most people’s gut reaction to the idea of health care reform is to not mess with the storied system that Tommy Douglas gave us. However, this argument fails to take into account the fact that a two-tier system already exists in Canada.
If a judge allows police to search the phone of someone indirectly involved in a crime they may end up finding evidence of a completely different offence, even if that person was never arrested or even a suspect in that first crime.
The most coveted spot in class isn’t a seat next to that cutie you’re trying to get a number from, but the seat by the outlets. Trust me, all available plugs usually get taken before the prof has a chance to walk into the lecture hall.
With more information accumulating in the online world every day, and a seemingly constant state of debt for many students, some question what exactly universities provide that isn’t readily available for free on our laptops and smartphones.
The crew has now also stumbled upon old Gee-Gees and Raven‘s mascots fighting, the scene beautifully preserved in amber.
One thing computers are not commonly supposed to do better than us is love or feel emotions. This is supposed to be a special human trait. But is it really?
Are You Still Watching? turns the camera onto viewers Photo: Alamy, Creative Commons Netflix’s latest hit series asks its audience Are You Still Watching? and so far the answer has been a resounding yes. The show consists of a blank screen, silence, and a passive aggressive pop-up message that won’t go away–and yet is so …
We have become entirely too preoccupied with exploiting the weaknesses and fallibilities of others—attacking them like rabid pack animals for the sake of entertainment or personal gain.
In the future, a more streamlined approach to handling government-funded investments would result in the right aid being distributed at the right time.
Like it or not, Canada is not immune to the rise of Islamophobia that is plaguing Western society.
Because the way nudity is depicted now—as a rigid divide between the genders—is only enforcing regressive ideologies within our culture.
It’s time to admit that general assemblies at the University of Ottawa have been a failed experiment.
I don’t have anything against writing a final exam—obviously I need to prove that I learned something over the course of four months—but I have a huge problem with the way people act at the end of the semester.
Although this is a horrible practice, the act of trying to repress or alter information is useless, since it usually produces the opposite of its desired effect.
Women-only gym hours should be available at every Canadian university, and they should not be limited to ridiculously early or late times of the day, as they so often are.
Even though there was a high probability that chemotherapy could have saved the life of someone like Makayla Sault, an aggressive attitude was probably not the best solution to this problem.
For the most part, scholarly articles are rife with lifeless jargon, loose punctuation, and unnecessarily complex sentence structure, almost like they were written by an emotionless computer or some kind of observant extraterrestrial.
If disability rights advocates wish to enlighten their audience about the plight of the vulnerable, perhaps they should rely more on scientific studies and less on emotional pleas.