By Roman Auriti
It’s hard to look anywhere today without being reminded about the looming economic crisis in the United States. We’ve all heard stories about how the American government has planned to bailout a number of banks with taxpayers’ money. Will Canada follow our southern neighbour and turn to taxpayers to do the same? With 3,500 domestic… Continue reading Crash and burn: tough lessons for Canada’s auto retailers
Disney, this is your fault. Sure, the defamation of pirates is heavily compounded by the noodly blasphemers, but it’s your disastrous portrayal of our peg-legged friends that damaged the public’s opinion. No longer do pirates bring about images of looting the weak for personal gain, of someone slowly hacking off their own hand between swigs… Continue reading Defamation and piracy
The weather outside is frightful, But the fire’s so delightful, Since you’ve no place to go,drink some nog, drink some nog, drink some nogggggg!If the idea of sweaters, nog, and the yule log playing on every television in the Den doesn’t get you in theholiday mood, you should drop by the What’s Up? Space to… Continue reading SU View: NOGFEST RETURNS
YesAlthough most of us, as starving students, complain about feeling the bite of yet another fee in our everyday lives, we aren’t that bad off. If you can afford to drive a car to and from school every day and haven’t bought a parking pass for McMahon or the Arts Parkade, then you’ve been free… Continue reading Should the city raise park and ride prices?
The Bible recommends that we look at the beam in our own eye and not at the mote in our neighbour’s. Westerners should do that with regard to newspapers, TV and other media. Westerners often say that the Russian government controls the Russian media, biasing the news there. Even though Russia definitely needs improvement in… Continue reading Hypocrisy in the west as the war in Georgia illuminates the failure of the media
By Tyler Wolfe
On Oct. 7, 2006 an unidentified man wearing a baseball cap entered the lobby of an apartment complex in central Moscow. It was President Vladimir Putin’s 54th birthday and he was almost certainly aware of the day’s significance. The man was waiting for a woman, but he wasn’t looking for a date. When Anna Politkovskaya… Continue reading Russia’s media massacre
Editor, the Gauntlet, The Students’ Union recently held its annual Summer Student Research Symposium in the Mac Hall Ballroom. The event was a fantastic display of undergraduate summer research endeavors; allowing students the opportunity to showcase their hard work. My favourite part of the event occurred during the prizing of the event, as the “Science… Continue reading Letter: Silly symposium
By Mark Farrell
Editor, the Gauntlet, In the piece called “This Hour has 22 Stereotypes” [Labiba Majeed, Nov. 20, Gauntlet] the author writes something to the effect that the show This Hour has 22 Minutes makes fun of visible minorities and maybe should be banned. Of course, one could argue that banning things, in particular satires, is not… Continue reading Letter: Stereotyping shows
Resurrecting one of the most drastically under-thought undertakings of the last few academic years, Campus Pro-Life is bringing back the Genocide Awareness Project. The project, which, among other things, showcases gruesome images of the holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the lynching of African-Americans, does a spectacular job of obscuring the actual issues of abortion. Though… Continue reading A regrettable destruction of reason
By Susan Park
World-renowned R&B maestro Seal, is back with his new album Soul. As the title and somewhat artistic black and white album cover imply, the songs are very smooth and classical. There is a good combination of strings, sometimes classical guitars and of course, Seal’s flowing baritone voice. Often remake songs tend to be not as… Continue reading Spun: Seal