Letters to the Editor – Oct. 28, 2009
RE: Break it to my grandma (Oct. 21, 2009) Fruit flavored rolling papers for the kids, fruit flavored booze for the grown ups, and rose…
2009
Sitting inches away from Dr. Norman Finkelstein
On Oct. 17, Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein, an advocate for human rights and peace in the Middle East, spoke at the Canadian Mennonite University. Finkelstein…
Playing in pink
Forget brown and gold, the new Bisons colour is pink. Well, for a week anyways. The women’s basketball team proudly showed off their pink jerseys…
The Speedo, the square and the jammer
I have two older brothers who live in Ontario and in their spare time they train and compete in triathlons. My brother Mikhail is an…
Sports fiction
Blernsball Origin: Futurama television series The world of Futurama has a fair number of bizarre spectacles, but perhaps none more confounding than the sport of…
Weight loss for dummies
Disclaimer: this might not be for everybody. This could be taken as a guide, but should not be taken as a manual. That is, use…
Be healthy, live technologically
Do you remember those FBI disclaimers that used to play on every video arcade game in the ‘90s, the ones that warned kids “winners don’t…
The Anti-Ketchup Food Manifesto
Ketchup may actually be the perfect icon of all the things that are wrong with North American food culture. Every package sold is symbolic of…
Fighting the good fight
The rush of adrenaline and the swift movement of each opponent during a martial arts fight between two experts is gorgeous to see — it…
The springs of Springfield: Jebediah Springfield
Jebediah Springifield is more than just a man. Arguably, he’s not even a man at all. As the founder of Springfield, Jebediah is the paragon…