Reading Time: 2 minutesIf 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe crew has now also stumbled upon old Gee-Gees and Raven‘s mascots fighting, the scene beautifully preserved in amber.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne 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?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAre 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 …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the future, a more streamlined approach to handling government-funded investments would result in the right aid being distributed at the right time.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLike it or not, Canada is not immune to the rise of Islamophobia that is plaguing Western society.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBecause the way nudity is depicted now—as a rigid divide between the genders—is only enforcing regressive ideologies within our culture.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s time to admit that general assemblies at the University of Ottawa have been a failed experiment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWomen-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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEven 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOttawa’s judicial precinct is prime real estate for the establishment of cultural touchstones and it should be reserved for a building or monument that speaks to some kind of national experience. Instead, this area is going to be used to build something that will only divide Canadians along political and ideological lines.
Reading Time: 2 minutesContinuing budget issues have led to the cancellation of a long-time institution at the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new Ontario sex-ed curriculum is a great step forward. The curriculum hadn’t been modified since 1998, and it was desperately in need of an update.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI would have hoped that at this point most of the country would agree that the physical discipline of children is barbaric and is no way to teach developing minds right from wrong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, the number of people watching television in a non-traditional fashion is growing, and that means the Nielsen system is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut while this kind of legislation undoubtedly means well, it has one fatal flaw: It fails to consider the correlation between obesity and poverty.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent outbreak of measles in Canada and the United States has sadly re-energized the anti-vaccine movement. This unfortunate reality is highlighted in a recent survey conducted by Mainstreet Technologies, which finds that 20 per cent of Ontarians believe that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has a causal relationship with autism.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis idea that post-secondary education should be about nothing but grades and studying is counterproductive to a student’s healthy social development.
