New NDP leader and the Left
Montreal MP Thomas Mulcair is the new federal NDP leader with the conclusion of a two-day voting convention held in Toronto Mar 23-24 He believes that Canada is challenged because...
Mental health concerns everyone
Mental health Two words we have all heard of, but rarely speak about Why Well, you can’t talk about ‘it,’ otherwise you’re one of them, a crazy person, right That seems to...
Do you know your study strategies?
It’s that time again With April just around the corner, the prospect of exams is near Unless you have been keeping up with your schoolwork regularly, it is time to sit down and...
Laurier should appreciate philanthropy
There are a lot of misconceptions, sometimes even bitterness, among students or even young alumni about their university raising funds for its own cause Even with tuition fees and...
Supply-side war on drugs was a failure
At a recent regional summit of Latin American leaders last Saturday, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina announced his desires to end the taboo surrounding drug...
UW’s civil LGBTQ protest
When Charles E Rice, an professor emeritus at Notre Dame Law School, came to the University of Waterloo Modern Languages Theatre on March 20 to give the annual Pascal Lecture on...
A break from the commercial break
“My name is Joe, and I am Canadian” If you were a child of my generation, there is probably no commercial slogan that resonates greater than that statement Proclaimed by...
Student inspires nude movement
When twenty-year-old Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, a university student in Cairo, posted a nude photograph of herself on her blog, some stated that the photo served as a “scream against...
Rick Santorum’s naïve climate change denial
The FactCheck Wire posted an article entitled “Santorum’s Science” on Mar 14 in which the author challenges US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s statement...