By Rob South
Every day of our lives we hear or learn something that upsets us. The challenge we often face is how to use the energy that anger creates without responding in an emotional and unproductive way. Last week, when I heard that some clubs are boycotting the annual Holiday Food Drive because of the Students’ Union’s… Continue reading Emotion ruins holiday campaign
By Nicole Kobie
As any junior high choir teacher can tell you, you don’t get harmony if everybody sings the same note. You also don’t get change, or protection of minority rights.Many people think democracy is about majority rule. An election or an issue comes along, and whoever cares enough to vote, does. Whatever candidate gets the most… Continue reading Aborted democracy
It was early morning in Banff on Nov. 27 when a young man emerged from his modest apartment building. He walked down Banff Ave. towards the local McDonald’s restaurant for his morning cup of coffee. It was about 9 a.m., and our young friend had an important day ahead. Granted citizenship in 1998 by the… Continue reading What would Jesus do?
In the endless search for the perfect partner, sometimes serendipity just trips you up.For the last year-and-whatever amount of time, I’ve mulled over what the ideal person is or would be. I wanted someone who was, oddly enough, just like me in terms of interests, long-term desires or ice-cream preference. A good friend was kind… Continue reading The perfect match might not be you
By Еvan Osentоn
Did you hear some funny noises last week? It could have been the sound of local newspaper columnists honing their agendas and sharpening their axes for the five-week federal election grind. That sloppy slurping noise might have been the editors and publishers of the two local papers festooning the corporate altar with monsoon kisses. That… Continue reading Hot off the presses: Media biased
By Jan Creaser
At least once a week, Jenny Jones or Maury Povich or some other like-minded TV moralist parades children across their stage, railing about how "out of control" the child is, how the parents "are at the end of their rope" and how "nothing seems to work" in terms of discipline. These kids are horrible, they… Continue reading Showcasing the bad kids
Last week we witnessed an apparently irrational andunpredictable twist in international politics. Slobodan Milosevic’s 13-year reign ended unpredictably. However, Milosevic’s sudden demise as leader was probably more predicatable than his country’s decision to forego any punishment.What does this mean for Serbia? Can a peaceful change of power take place in a region so used to… Continue reading The price of peace
By Natalie Sit
Like most students on campus, I’m too young to fully understand Pierre Elliott Trudeau. But I live in a Canada that he envisioned. Thanks to him, I have twice the reading material when looking at cereal boxes.I vaguely remember social studies classes in high school concerning the FLQ crisis and the repatriation of the Canadian… Continue reading Screw the west, get bad press
By Rob South
With November elections approaching in the U.S., the current rant among Ralph Nader followers, Rage Against the Machine fans, anarchists and pseudo-intellectuals is that there is nothing to distinguish Al Gore and George W. Bush. However, even the most superficial observer should notice the candidates disagree over abortion, the privatization of social security, the scope… Continue reading Opposing parties should have opposing policies
Stockwell Day is a dangerous man. It’s not because of his right-wing views or even because of the power of his expanding Canadian Alliance Party. It’s not his religious outlook, his views on abortion or his desire to bring education under provincial jurisdiction. It’s not even his deadly good looks or his equally deadly martial-arts… Continue reading SpeedoGate rocks Ottawa, CA to blame