Tune in to any sports radio or TV station on the Canadian airwaves these days and you’re bound to hear the latest on the status of the NHL lockout. The league has already canceled the entirety of the pre-season schedule and the 1,230 games scheduled to make up the 2012-13 regular season now hang in balance. [...]
I’ve spent the better part of the past three months trying to buy a specific model of midi keyboard. Through the course of my journey I’ve searched local stores, ordered twice online from different places, become familiar with what’s popular in on-hold music, and even sent photocopies of my driver’s license to verify my address [...]
Expectations are a tricky thing. You expect something and it becomes organized, ordered, defined, even routine. Worse, you expect something and if that thing in question doesn’t match the level of your expectations it becomes, by definition, a failure. In one fell swoop our expectations make our lives sadder and more boring. But I don’t [...]
Border Lands school division ignores the needs of LGBTTQ* students
I first heard about Kony 2012 in a fevered organic chemistry lab last Wednesday morning, as my lab bench stumbled through the day’s experiments discussing the all-nighters they’d pulled, and the YouTube videos they’d watched while doing it. It wasn’t my first time hearing the name Joseph Kony but it was the first I’d heard about [...]
Why the ruling party should be setting the bar higher
Want to change the face of the Internet? Want to maximize your cultural clout? Click on ad. Don’t read ad, close ad. That’s the gist of the classic capitalist model of voting with your dollars, revamped to cost you absolutely nothing. I’ll offer a disclaimer here: the Manitoban garners revenue from online advertising. We’re a [...]
In August of last year — possibly in an effort to pay for F-35 fighter jets, mega-prisons and long distance fees for crank calls to Liberal MPs’ constituents — the Tories announced they would be cutting 700 Jobs at Environment Canada (EC). Environment Canada recently admitted — almost perfectly demonstrating the effect of these cuts [...]
As a Conservative, I am often disappointed by some of the misconceptions about conservatism that exist on university campuses. I will take this opportunity to correct the record. The foundation of conservatism is a belief in individual freedom and personal responsibility. This means that your life is your own, that you do not belong to [...]
Depending on the source, somewhere close to one third of the 370 delegates at the 74th Canadian University Press conference fell ill with norovirus (or Norwalk) on Jan. 14 and 15. This is a retelling of the events leading up to that evening. Over the course of a couple days, wide-eyed university press representatives rolled [...]