Spencer Gibara
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Is hip-hop dead?
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Iggy Azalea has been contentiously nominated for several hip-hop awards.
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The vindication of Sun News
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Sun News has always attracted criticism. Since the earliest days in printing papers it’s been slammed as a hard-right, fringe and radical organization.
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GamerGate: the internet is merciless
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I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a controversy composed of such a weird amalgamation of cultural forces. The issue of Gamergate has been building for a few months now, and it has me extremely glad that I left video game culture in my past. Gamergate managed to encompass everything that’s wrong with the Internet into…
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A case against abortion
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Opinion columnist Spencer Gibara outlines the case against Abortion
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Poor voter turnout is a non-issue
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“… democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time…” Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons, 11 November 1947.
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The politics of pipelines
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The environmental movement has become such a mixed bag of idiocy that it has begun to turn me against the crucial issue of environmental protection.
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Furthering the debate on gun control
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The debate on gun control in Canada has never been as controversial as what we see in the United States; while there is a vocal minority here that expresses enthusiasm for gun culture, it pales in comparison to our southern neighbours who, as we all know, hold a right to own a gun. Personally, I’ve…
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