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Senate reform long overdue
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Tariq Sohail, volunteer staff
The recent Senate expense scandal has brought some hard truths about Canadian democracy to the fore. There have always been calls to reform the Canadian Senate, but in the past year...
Our moral superiority at the 2014 Winter Olympics
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Kevin Linklater, staff
Russia has been in the international spotlight for much of the last two weeks for hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. However, the actual games themselves have often been overshadowed by Russia’s deteriorating...
Marijuana users must stand up and be heard
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Sorry, head shop owners and outraged head shoppers, but we deserve absolutely zero sympathy. Sure, what’s happening to our local pipe peddlers is a bummer, but the police and the City aren’t at fault...
Politicked off? Don’t vote
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“Everything that can be said about the suffrage may be summed up in a sentence.
To vote is to give up your own power.”
-Élisée Reclus
It seems that many Canadians have their knickers in a twist...
Debunking colonialism with Jennifer Keith
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Jennifer Keith
My youth was much like that of anyone who grew up in a farming community. My comfortable, middle-class existence consisted of swimming in the family pool, playing fastball and volleyball, and, when I...
Kevin O’Really?
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Michael Lee
“…Really?”
I’m sure many of you shared with Amanda Lang that same exasperated reaction upon hearing Kevin O’Leary’s perplexing comments on the Lang & O’Leary Exchange. Upon learning of Oxfam’s latest findings that the...
Is altruism enough?
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On Jan. 13, Canadian Blood Services (CBS) announced that Canada was in the midst of a nationwide blood shortage, partially due to a frigid December that left much of Central and Eastern Canada in...






