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Lee MacPherson | 6:09 am
In 2008, English science writer Simon Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) for an article he wrote in The Guardian called, “Beware the Spinal Trap.”
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Brian Latour | 1:47 am
In light of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), I feel it is important that I explain why we refer to Israel as an apartheid state.
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Sheldon Birnie | Mar 15
Beer prices in Manitoba have just gone up. I found this out the hard way, like a rube, when I hit up the Zoo last night for a 12 of beer. The price on a case had gone up about $1.25, from $19.25 to $20.50.
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Matthew Kemshaw | Mar 15
Cyclists during the Olympics enjoyed carless streets lined in Olympic green and blue clad “security” fences. Weaving through seas of nationalism effortlessly, as the meaty, sweaty masses piled endlessly into public transit in an attempt to appease the common interest. With all the traffic on the Skytrain, the roads presented blocks of “open ice” to the itinerant cyclist.
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Spencer Fernando | Mar 15
The Moving Forward slate won what appears to be a convincing victory. But when one considers that they received the support of 87 percent of those who voted, and that only ten percent chose to vote, that support equals about nine per cent of all U of M students. Clearly the vast majority of students no longer care about being involved.
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Dana Medoro | Mar 8
I wish I had never seen the tight, wretched cages in which pigs are kept for life in this province and country. I wish, eight years ago, that I had just gotten up from the factory-farm meeting at the Humane Society and said: “This is just a bad dream. I’m going home to wake up now.”
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Corey King | Mar 8
In group marriage, everyone is married to everyone else, and the economics and child-rearing are the equal or collaborative responsibility of all married parties.
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Saul Magnusson | Mar 8
Everything was fine until Neil Young finished his performance. The Olympic torch was extinguished, and our country, on the world’s stage, up-chucked every imaginable Canadian stereotype onto the floor of BC Place.
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Tessa Vanderhart | Mar 8
Eating local is about knowing, really knowing what goes into your food — investing in your food supply and your community from the beginning.
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Kahlia Beaudette | Mar 8
On Feb. 27, Chile experienced an earthquake that ranks in the top five strongest earthquakes ever recorded.
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Joanna Graham | Mar 8
Worship of Santa Muerte is most common in central Mexico but she has also been emigrating to the U.S., most notably to New York, Houston and Los Angeles.
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Shawna Finnegan | Mar 1
Although Jerema is ultimately criticizing the usefulness of master's degrees, particularly in the arts and sciences, he raises an interesting question: Is it wrong to stay in school longer in order to avoid “real life?”
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Rod Bruinooge | Mar 1
As chair of the Government Post-Secondary Education Caucus, I have met with many student organizations and toured universities and colleges across the country.
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Sean Goertzen | Mar 1
The key to affordable education is a low tuition rate coupled with a strong student loan and bursary program. Greens would work with provinces and post-secondary institutions to reduce tuition through increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the institutions.
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Corey King | Mar 1
The real world has boundaries and obstacles, strict social guidelines and complex class struggles; it’s a place with trade offs and concessions.
