Sports

Hippies and guns

By
Leif Larsen
“Ready!” someone calls from behind me. I’m nervous, shaking in that way that is imperceptible to everyone but you; no one else notices, but to you it feels like you’re in an earthquake. “Pull!”...
Comment

What ya gonna do when the police want to talk...

By
Leif Larsen
Last month’s G20 conference in Toronto saw, according to a report on CBC.ca, “more than 900 people arrested during the .” Additionally, an untold number of people had their person, bags and vehicles searched....
News

Science opinions

By
Leif Larsen
If you had almost two hours to kill last week—like I did—you may have sat down in front of your computer with a coffee and watched the full-length iPhone 4 keynote address. Of...
Editorial

Wild Winnipeg

By
Leif Larsen
The snow is off the ground in Winnipeg and that can only mean one thing, mosquitos are terrorizing people everywhere — especially in my back yard. With the annual emergence of Aedes vexans —...
Features

For freaks, by freaks

By
Leif Larsen
Vomit inducing rides, deep-fried everything, sugar and utterly unwinnable games. This is the anatomy of the modern carnival. Now relegated to semi-trailers lined up in parking lots, one can’t help but think that the...
News

Where did we come from?

By
Leif Larsen
If you ask a room full of biologists how life arose on our planet, you could start a fistfight. Current theories clash on details such as which came first: genes or protein, where life...
News

Growing pains

By
Leif Larsen
To say that the Internet can be controversial is a supreme understatement. With but a few keystrokes, sites containing literally anything can be happened upon by almost anyone; and therein lies the problem. This...
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