I know what I like: Why it’s important to apply critical thinking to popular media
“Don’t you think you’re being a little hypersensitive?” These words often come at me when I’m happily babbling away about why I don’t like some…
Editorial
The cycle of women, media, and consumerism: Have we really come as far as we think?
During my holiday break I had the misfortune of stumbling across an episode of a show called The Real Housewives of Miami. It was out…
Compassion in the midst of grief
“I can’t imagine how hard this experience must be for you, and I want you to know that our family and our love and our…
The troublesome notion of modern irony
Let me pose a question: is it even possible for someone to like something ironically? I know, I know, if you follow the pop culture…
In defense of theatrics: Why Greenpeace is tricky, though not without value
The imagery and messages of large activist groups like Greenpeace can be problematic. It’s easy to see why. Hume observed, and this is now a…
Defending Winnipeg’s Honour
I’ve spent the better part of the past three months trying to buy a specific model of midi keyboard. Through the course of my journey…
Quite a show
Expectations are a tricky thing. You expect something and it becomes organized, ordered, defined, even routine. Worse, you expect something and if that thing in…
Won’t somebody think of the (LGBTTQ*) children?
Border Lands school division ignores the needs of LGBTTQ* students
The many faces of Kony 2012
I first heard about Kony 2012 in a fevered organic chemistry lab last Wednesday morning, as my lab bench stumbled through the day’s experiments discussing the…
The list keeps growing
Why the ruling party should be setting the bar higher