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The end of textbooks
September 15, 2014How much did you spend on textbooks this semester? You don’t have to answer that. We all know that feeling of disappointment that comes with shelling out more than $100 on a textbook you’ll probably never use again. For decades, academic publishers and university bookstores have charged students hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for textbooks, adding to already high tuition costs and ballooning student debt in Canada. For the most part, post-secondary students are encouraged to accept this as a hard truth of university life: if you want to go to school, you’ll have to pay. It’s this dominant ideology…
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Fear of a yellow planet
September 8, 2014Back in those halcyon days when I had home-recorded VHS tapes and late-night cartoon marathons in lieu of summer jobs and print deadlines, my sister and I would exhaust each and every Simpsons videotape we owned, to the point where…
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Come fly with me: One student’s experience as a flight attendant
June 11, 2012By Alison Roach It’s summertime — or at least every once in a while the weather is decent enough to feel like it is. Maybe you’re starting a summer job; you are a starving student, after all. Maybe you’re taking…
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Call me maybe: The trouble with telemarketers
June 11, 2012By Denise Wong TELEMARKETER CALLING We’ve all gotten unwelcome calls from telemarketers, even cursed them or hung up on them. “About 30 per cent would just hang up [on me],” confirms Dana, who used to work as a telemarketer. “Reading…
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Raising the bar: An inside look at the realities of the restaurant industry
May 28, 2012By Julie Skinner ST. JOHN’S (CUP) — Glancing over her shoulder, Vanessa Stanley smiles back at the young waiter who just took her lunch order. As soon as the server’s out of earshot, Stanley leans across the table and quietly…
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SlutWalk: They Walked the Walk, Now They’re Talking the Talk
May 28, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic Photo: Bai Yin “Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized” This quote by the Toronto Police Service’s Const. Michael Sanguinetti sparked public outrage in February of last year. In response, SlutWalk Toronto…
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Freaks and Geeks: A look at Fan Expo Vancouver and fan culture
May 21, 2012By Alison Roach Within 10 minutes of walking into the Vancouver Convention Centre, I’d seen Batman, Jack Sparrow (complete with swagger), a girl in a wig and fishnets (and not much else), an inhabitant of Avatar’s foreign planet, and Iron…
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