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• Chicken nuggets and a side of childhood obesity

  Teenage eating disorders or lazy parenting?

• Obscurantism and the Gateway Pipeline

  A response to ‘Pipeline to Prosperity’

• Choosing peace over hate

  The story of Kasim Hafeez

• Let’s get one thing straight

  Respect for the LGBT* community

• From Twitter to Washington DC

  The third annual Kurdish Youth Festival

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  Shafia and cultural reflections

  How many people should pay for first-degree murder?

• Chimps, children and lawless violence

  I completed a first-year anthropology course titled Human Origins last semester. While we covered a wide range of subjects — from genetics and the modern theory of evolution, to the earliest origins of mankind and studies of our countless predecessors, to an overview of our archaeological history — I found the most revealing insights into modern [...]

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  Hearts, minds, and bladders

  Recently a video that showed American marines urinating on the bodies of dead fighters appeared online. There is no way to verify the claim that the bodies were those of Taliban fighters. These men could very well have been fighters loosely sided with the Taliban who took up arms against the invading forces of the [...]

• Man up

  2011. The year of the manly man? “Man up!” How many times did we hear this phrase? About every time Sarah Palin showed up on Fox News, it seemed. It was the catch phrase of the year. When people weren’t being what people wanted them to be, they had to “Man up!” And then, Christie [...]

• CBA opposes C-10

  Since their election in 2006, the Harper government has held steady on several themes. One of the most prominent, “tough on crime,” is on the verge of being translated from rhetoric to law with the upcoming reading of Bill C-10 in the Senate. It’s a major political victory for the Tories and their constituents — [...]