Editorial
I will survive
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You there, what are you doing? Haven’t you heard that newspapers are dead? Why are you sitting here with a piece of dead tree in your hands when you could be reading a poorly...
The proper route to becoming a journalist
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Some people say that in order to become a good journalist you need to go to journalism school. That journalism is an old-boys network where someone has to have the right connections, connections that...
Wild Winnipeg
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The snow is off the ground in Winnipeg and that can only mean one thing, mosquitos are terrorizing people everywhere — especially in my back yard.
With the annual emergence of Aedes vexans —...
The six that could have been twelve
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The other night, I was drinking with my buddy Francis, and our two other friends, Rick and Cheeze. All being somewhat broke, we pooled — more or less evenly — our cash and bought...
The Lost Art of Paying Attention
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Being in university often means not having a life beyond yourself. As you say good riddance to mid-terms and march toward finals, free time will be spent in libraries, in labs, on laptops and...
The 2010 Winter Olympics: for better, or for worse embodying the...
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The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games were not yet a week old before the international media unleashed their hounds. The games and their organizing committee, VANOC, garnered plenty of bad ink in those initial hours...
Starving will mess you up
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The worst has happened. Jason Alexander is the new face of Jenny Craig.
According to his Jenny Craig blog, Alexander decided to lose weight after seeing a photo of himself he didn’t like. This,...
