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Building an anti-apartheid activist
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Like most people, I have a tough time caring about events and issues that don't directly influence me or my immediate surroundings. I don't think this makes us bad people; it just makes us...
The red herring of apartheid
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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 else in between.
This is no secret — all...
Getting shit done
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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 Harper as supreme monarch of Canada. King Harper could...
Letters to the Editor – March 9, 2011
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RE: “Won’t somebody think of the children?” (March 2nd, 2011)
I just wanted to congratulate Sheldon on a great article on salvia, and drugs in general.
I'm not one for looking up facts to support...
Political prisoner or thief?
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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 and were sentenced to seven years in a Siberian...
Give Grandma a break!
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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 public expenditures costing 2.5 times more than youth expenditures,...
Won’t somebody think of the children?
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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 government will soon be listing salvia under the Controlled...
