Let’s not forget

With Remembrance Day coming up, several university students in Ottawa, along with the Rideau Institute, plan on handing out white poppies as an alternative...

Experiential learning should be mandatory

Of the many problems that face the latest batches of 20-something undergraduate degree holders, like living with the existence of Grown Ups 2, or...

DTES residents are people above addicts, mentally ill

Natasha Wahid’s column’s last instalment “When a Fire starts to burn” shows the exact disdain towards the Downtown Eastside that is responsible for it...

Test-tube meat: unnatural, but not wrong

The science-fiction-esque fantasy of test-tube meat, aka in-vitro meat, produced in a lab from the stem cells of an animal, is soon-to-be a reality...

Trans* theory is for everyone

Readers who saw my last column will recall its focus on treating trans* people respectfully. One important concept I did not explain, however, is...

DTES residents are people before they’re ‘mentally-ill’

Natasha Wahid’s column’s last instalment “When a Fire starts to burn” shows the exact disdain towards the Downtown Eastside that is responsible for it...

Gender-separated transit vehicles are not the answer

Apes illustration Lately there has been talk regarding the possibility of women-only SkyTrain cars, in order to help with the constant sexual harassment and...

Reform the Senate

Mike Duffy, Mac Harb, Pamela Wallin, Patrick Brazeau.  A year ago, only the most politically knowledgeable Canadians would have been able tell who these...

Give people suffering from food allergies respect

When I ask a barista to make my drink with soy and forgo the whipped cream, I am not trying to be trendy or...

When a Fire starts to burn

This past September, my foray with the Vancouver Fringe Festival had me stationed at the Firehall Arts Centre on E. Cordova on the —...