Editorial
Compassion in the midst of grief
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“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 support goes out to you as well.”
Robbie Parker spoke...
The troublesome notion of modern irony
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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 pundits, bloggers, and next-door-know-it-alls you’ll be reassured that of course...
In defense of theatrics: Why Greenpeace is tricky, though not without...
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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 well-established phenomenon in social psychology and the social sciences, that...
Defending Winnipeg’s Honour
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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 I’ve searched local stores, ordered twice online from different...
Quite a show
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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 question doesn’t match the level of your expectations it becomes, by...
Won’t somebody think of the (LGBTTQ*) children?
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Border Lands school division ignores the needs of LGBTTQ* students
The many faces of Kony 2012
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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 all-nighters they’d pulled, and the YouTube videos they’d watched...






