Bill C-36 does nothing for sex worker rights

The federal government has recently taken steps to introduce a new piece of legislation regulating prostitution. After the Supreme Court deemed previous prostitution laws...

Doctors require the right to refuse treatment based on beliefs

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) is currently reviewing its policy which accords doctors the right to refuse to treat a...

Israel/Palestine: one state solution

It is easy to label the erupting crisis in the Israel-Palestine corridor as a meaningless tragedy; in many ways, this is correct. What began...

Religious, irreligious, whatever

I suppose I am what we call irreligious, or perhaps a humanist, maybe even an atheist. I bring this up now to stress that I...

Instagram’s nudity policy is an insta-no

  Considering Instagram’s conception and birth happened in modern society, it baffles me that their nudity policy is archaic and works hard to strengthen classic...

New anti-spam laws aren’t all they’re cracked up to be

For Canada Day, our country’s Parliament gave Canadians a birthday present: an anti-spam legislation that would ensure electronic users have the option to free...

Nanaimo city council violates Canadian rights

Just over two months ago, Nanaimo’s city council made a decision, the controversy of which was only matched by the lack of reporting on...

Hobby Lobby ruling harms women’s rights in the US

The Supreme Court has chosen religion over human rights in the case of Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby. On June 30, the Court ruled that...

Zero Waste design is garbage

In January 2014, SFU launched its comprehensive Zero Waste program on all campuses as another step to achieve the goal of “diverting 70 per...

Referees need replay analysis in the World Cup

Fans never seem to hesitate in their chant “I’m blind, I’m deaf, I think I can ref!” At times we can swear by those words...