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Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:27
The Debate: What’s the big deal with doping?
Last week, cycling legend Lance Armstrong finally admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs to help win seven consecutive Tour de France titles. Armstrong now joins a rapidly expanding group of professional athletes whose winning reputations have been tarnished because of doping scandals. With such frequency, should doping not be taken so seriously? Or should it remain…
Saturday, 19 January 2013 07:11
University degree or reality TV?
On Monday, January 14, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the government’s $400 million plan to help increase private-sector investments in the next seven to ten years. According to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, the Venture Capital Action Plan aims to provide financial support and strategic incentive to young entrepreneurs to focus their creativity and ingenuity into…
Saturday, 19 January 2013 07:01
Haiti, foreign aid on thin ice?
Last week, Canadian hockey icon Don Cherry railed against the amount of money Canada’s government spends on foreign aid. He called it “nuts” that Canadians can suffer from long hospital wait times and other service shortfalls, yet can give over $50 million in aid to Haiti following a devastating earthquake in 2010. Should Canada continue…
Friday, 11 January 2013 03:18
Shaping the ‘people’s park’
Taking in the view from the wooden lookout perched above the Little Rouge River, it’s easy to forget you are still within city limits. In the valley below, snowy pines and bare birch trees (and other trees a city slicker would be hard-pressed to identify) flank the narrow, windy river after which Rouge Park is…
Friday, 11 January 2013 03:08
The Debate: Idle No More on the wrong side of the law?
MOTION: Illegal actions associated with the Idle No More movement are effective and necessary to bring public attention to the First Nations’ plight. On December 11, 2012, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence began a highly publicized hunger strike in an attempt to secure talks and potential negotiations with Prime Minister Stephen Harper over violations of First…
Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:28
Apocalypse: the beginning of utopia?
And so we’ll end: with a bang or a whimper; in a catastrophic meteoric collision or once economic systems have collapsed; after the gradual degradation of the Earth’s ecosystem or in the shadow of nuclear mushroom clouds; flowers will cease to bloom and water will cease to flow. At some undisclosed point in the future…
Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:08
This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with...
The Mayans warned us it was over. But they neglected to mention how it would end. We walk you through some possible scenarios.
Tuesday, 18 December 2012 05:39
Roughing it in the bush
Seeing as we’re in for an apocalypse this winter, I decided the best course of action would be to brush up on my survival skills. So one recent November weekend, I convinced four brave souls -- Diana Wilson and Jesse Foster (a married couple), and Animesh Roy and Ricky de Amorim (engineers and roommates) --…
Tuesday, 18 December 2012 05:10
Now boarding for Ark Two
On a sunny afternoon eight days before the Mayan apocalypse, the newspaper made a visit to humanity’s soon-to-be last bastion. We anticipated a wacky afternoon of crackpot conspiracy theories and excellent photo opportunities. What we got was a lesson on altruism and a lingering respect for our host.
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