April 10, 2013 3:23 pm
The thing I’ve despised the most over the last few years in watching student movements is the complete lack of respect for opposing views that sometimes emerges. Lip service is paid to the value of debate and discussion, but all too often those pushing for a cause do so from a position of already being right, and if they could only educate you, you’d be compelled to agree with them.
April 8, 2013 5:48 pm
In a move which seems both counter-intuitive and counterproductive, the Harper government has withdrawn from the Desertification Convention, decreasing the already noticeably diminished presence of Canadians on the largest multi-national governing body in international relations today.
April 8, 2013 4:06 pm
Representative democracy assumes that the state has a reasonable amount of control over its social and economic destiny. However, capitalism has been so invasive that it operates regardless of borders and political boundaries.
April 5, 2013 4:24 pm
Although it is exciting and ground-breaking that our first openly gay premier has been elected into office, I have yet to understand why the media focuses in on just Kathleen Wynne’s sexuality and gender, as opposed to the content of her character and political viewpoints.
April 5, 2013 2:14 pm
On March 13, dozens of CBSA officers, accompanied by cameras from Force Four Entertainment, raided a Vancouver construction site, arresting dozens of migrant workers despite the stated intention of the CBSA to detain one particular man with a lengthy criminal record. Eight remain in custody and are facing hearings and deportation.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz has just released a new collection of short stories titled This Is How You Lose Her, which he read from at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) last weekend. The Strand sat down with him to discuss his new work.
I didn’t think much of you the first time we met. I was young and ignorant and you were just amongst the other 26 letters hidden somewhere in the middle, quiet and passive. I apologize now for the way I neglected you. Remembering all of those hours wasted with vowels — those damn popular vowels.
In October 2011, 85 per cent of students who voted said yes to a redistribution of $10.35 from their tuition to help fund and support a new radio station. Despite an attempt to reclaim the 88.1 FM frequency, which included what Ryerson President Sheldon Levy called “a huge amount of work,” Radio Ryerson lost the bid.