Politics
Obama offers incisive criticism of religious intolerance
February 16, 2015[caption id="attachment_398" align="alignnone" width="740"] Image Credits: BeckyF[/caption] Unfortunate as it may be, Barack Obama’s presidency will be remembered as much for its failures as its successes. His revolutionary healthcare reform will be marked by the bitter political fight that followed; his troop withdrawal from the Middle East countenanced by the vacuum it left, the closing of Gitmo and acknowledgement of American torture balanced by the absence of prosecutions. Even Obama’s chest puffing about America being on top of the global speed dial list when uncertainty strikes was offset by his neutered response to Bashar Al-Assad’s atrocities and Russia’s annexation of…
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Poll Party
November 10, 2014This coming Saturday, November 15, voters across British Columbia will head to the polls to elect their next municipal governments. Sadly, if past statistics are any indicator, very few people will actually exercise this right, which is even more tragic…
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Smothering Science
November 2, 2014“Everything here is important to me. This is my life.” This was the answer that Dr. Patricia Sutherland, a federal archaeologist working on a site in Baffin Island, gave to her employer after being asked if there was anything important…
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The girl from Pakistan
October 20, 2014"I am sad watching my uniform, school bag and geometry box. I felt hurt on opening my wardrobe and seeing my uniform, school bag and geometry box. Boys’ schools are opening tomorrow.” Eleven-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai wrote this in her…
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When it rains, it pours: The Umbrella Revolution
October 14, 2014The umbrellas, for a brief moment, folded. For many, the largest protest in China in 25 years were as good as finished, and citizens and students alike returned to the hustle and bustle of everyday life in Hong Kong. Small…
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Canadians need an alliance between the Liberals and the NDP
September 29, 2014Politics are a complicated topic for millennials. In Canada’s 2011 federal election, according to Elections Canada, only roughly 39 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 18 and 24 voted. We live in an age where equality, acceptance, and…
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Auld alliance for a new era
September 15, 2014Barely three days after you read this, the map of Europe could once again change. On September 18, a referendum will take place in Scotland asking a single question, “Should Scotland be an independent country?” If a successful ‘yes’ vote…
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Why I’m siding with BC teachers
September 8, 2014On June 5, 2001, when I was just seven years old, Christy Clark began her reign as BC’s Education Minister. The BC Liberals, a party Clark now leads, ran on a platform entitled “A New Era for British Columbia” which…
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