The red herring of apartheid
Language can be a strangely powerful tool. A single word may reference a whole range of cultural phenomena and inspire happiness, shock, anger and everything…
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Getting shit done
I love the current Harper Government. I hope we can somehow rid ourselves of this cumbersome democracy once and for all and finally establish Stephen…
Letters to the Editor – March 9, 2011
RE: “Won’t somebody think of the children?” (March 2nd, 2011) I just wanted to congratulate Sheldon [Birnie] on a great article on salvia, and drugs…
Democracy in the Middle East
Over the past two months, the people in Tunisia and Egypt have managed to effect serious change in their governments, chasing out corrupt leaders and…
Political prisoner or thief?
On Dec. 27, 2010, Russian business oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, were charged with embezzlement and money laundering from Yukos Oil…
Give Grandma a break!
Kyle Mirecki’s article “Here Comes the Boom!” (Feb. 16, 2011) argued that “with a growing number of seniors, a small birth rate, and with senior…
Won’t somebody think of the children?
People are up in arms about a little known hallucinogenic herb called salvia divinorum. Local MP Shelly Glover recently made the announcement that the federal…
Letters to the Editor – March 2, 2011
RE: “Here comes the boom!” (Feb. 16, 2011) Kyle Mirecki wrote the article suggesting that more resources should be put towards the baby boomers (old…
A new era in Sudan
The people of Sudan are celebrating the results of a recent referendum on independence in South Sudan. The results were no surprise — everyone expected…
Leave the lettuce alone!
“Please tell the man I didn’t kill anyone, I’m just tryin’ to have me some fun.” — John Prine As you read this, our federal…