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Climate Crisis: We can handle worrying about multiple problems — we just lack the time
May 17, 2022By Luke Faulks, Opinions Editor Just over a month ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the planet’s highest climate research body, released the latest in a series of damning climate predictions. Among the frightening calls to action was their finding that a livable world depends on global emissions peaking in 2025. It gives us just three years to reverse a horrifying upwards trend in planet-warming emissions. The problem is that it’s not resonating with citizens. Predictably, researchers have been trying to work out why climate doesn’t animate voters for a while. One idea that’s gained prominence recently is the…
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Being mixed is as confusing as my ethnicity
July 21, 2021by Marco Ovies, Features Editor In 1993, Time Magazine published a special issue titled The New Face of America with a computer-rendered image of a person mixed with many different races as the cover. This was supposed to be a…
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Anyone can be a gamer, regardless of genre
March 15, 2021by Charlene Aviles, Peak Associate When I hear the phrase “video games,” first and third person shooter games often come to mind — the Entertainment Software Association even says that 47% of gamers play them. Many of these types of…
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SPOOF: The Mascot of the Year
January 9, 2017It’s midday on Burnaby Mountain and the air is thin and frosty. With the exam period over and the new semester still weeks away, few of the university’s nearly 30,000 students remain on campus, with most students in residence having…
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Can we just toss Daylight Savings already?
November 13, 2015I grew up in a region of the province that never changed its time in the fall and spring. We still felt its effects: every fall our TV shows would air an hour earlier than before, and when we traveled…
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Boohoo, Woohoo
June 22, 2015Boohoo: Father Time Father Time, old sport, you need to get off your wrinkly old buttocks and back in the game. You’re the living embodiment of time but you look like you haven’t left the house in centuries. You have…
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