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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.
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Sarah Bockstael | Mar 1
A vicious cycle exists in the world of poverty — approximately 25,000 children around the world die every day due to the effects of poverty.
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Mumtaz Mirza | Mar 1
Many people have heard that Islam means peace, but very few people have seen a parallel depiction in mainstream media — from TV, to movies, to newspapers, to textbooks, etc. — but what does Islam really mean?
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Spencer Fernando | Feb 22
For anyone who questions the inherent goodness at the core of the human spirit, the story of Faron Hall should quiet their doubts. This man, without a home, without a family, without a sense of belonging, has saved the lives of two people who would otherwise have drowned.
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Talia Joundi | Feb 22
Hosting the Olympics resulted in a loss of some major cash that could have, in theory, alleviated local social disasters, such as the devastating issue of homelessness.
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Asma Mneima | Feb 22
Granted, there’s nothing funny about the seal hunt, but everybody loves pie.
