COVID-19 is the wake-up call humanity needs
This pandemic will pass, as have all before it. What would be a shame would be to return to the antebellum rush which it has thankfully paused.
Evan Tremblay
Propaganda campaign needed to fight climate change
The Australian bushfire crisis provides a look into into a terrifying future.
Climate crisis necessitates public shaming of air travel
11,000 scientists published an open letter that warns of “untold suffering” if radical changes are not made to society to counteract global warming. Air travel and associated industries generate two per cent of all global carbon emissions.
Punishments for unmowed grass a sign of deeper societal issues
The mown lawn is a bastard landscape, unsustainable and, in this climate, unnatural.
Traipsing through the heat and the storms
“This year, I felt like I knew people almost everywhere I went.”
The curious case of the offending vending machine
In UMSU University Centre, beside the cashier’s office, there is a cozy little nook with a built-in bench.
It’s the jobs, stupid
What the SNC-Lavalin affair reveals about the ideological concept of “jobs” in Canadian political discourse.
LGBTTQ* is for LGBTTQ*, not you
Changing the LBGTTQ* representative’s title is a boondoggle.
Pot is a start — now legalize the rest
Pot is now legal. The next step is legalizing all recreational drugs.
If smokers are singled out, why not greenhouse gas emitters?
The effects of climate change are just as well known as the effects of secondhand smoke. The former should be addressed by city council in exactly the same manner as smoking.