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Provincial man

They say you should always write about what you know. If that’s the case, Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson knows his home province of Manitoba…


Dr. Strange Krause or:

Thinking about my body image isn’t something I do often. It isn’t a constant throb in the back of my mind. Issues with it flare…



Take off your clothes

Two weekends ago I attended a student journalism conference in Victoria, B.C. The conference and speakers covered a wide array of topics, one of which…


A human concern

If you’re a woman you probably worry about your appearance. Female body issues have increasingly been a topic of conversation over the last several years;…


Just Boobs

I started to develop breasts around the time I was 11. At 13 I was still an A cup and was envious of my big-breasted classmates….


The clock is ticking

It’s five minutes to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is an image representing the severity of threats to the planet and humanity in general. On the…


Eradication victory

As of Jan. 13, India had not had a case of polio in a year. The country was a major centre of polio infection as…


March of the supersoldiers

Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants,” a study out of McGill University published Jan. 6 in Science, shines light on a different class…


The big cheese

It is evident when cheese goes bad. A foul-smelling odour paired with the presence of uniquely coloured moulds and fungi renders this once pleasurable food…