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  • Animal rights and academic freedom

    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.”

  • Why only monogamy?

    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.

  • Put the Beaver to bed

    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.

  • Critics of local food miss the point

    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.

  • And another one

    Kahlia Beaudette | Mar 8

    On Feb. 27, Chile experienced an earthquake that ranks in the top five strongest earthquakes ever recorded.

  • The worship of Santa Muerte

    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.

  • Refusing to be a grown up

    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?”

  • Government's role in higher learning

    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.

  • Proposals for advancing higher education

    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.

  • Thoughts on the future of you, me and humanity

    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.

  • umWHAT, dedicated to bring change worldwide

    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.

  • Peace - the vision of Islam

    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?

  • Who will rescue the rescuer?

    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.

  • Freestyle spending

    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.

  • Animal rights activism gone awry

    Asma Mneima | Feb 22

    Granted, there’s nothing funny about the seal hunt, but everybody loves pie.