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Not thinking of the world: international student struggle to fit in
By Thiago Silva
Imagine one day you wake up and realize you have no friends, no family, and the people around you speak a foreign language that you sometimes have difficulty grasping. No, I am not talking about a movie. This is how a lot of ...
Ignorance prevails in census decision-making
By Eric Merkley (The Cord)
It is not rare to see the government emitting complete and total ignorance about a topic on which it has crafted public policy. It is, however, exceedingly rare to have so many different groups from across the political spectrum united to ...
HST is here to stay
By Jason Motz (The Martlet)
Victoria (CUP) — On July 1, life in B.C. became a little less divine — 12 per cent less, to be exact.
It is said that there are two inevitabilities in life: death and taxes. But the implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) ...
Bounties of a harvest
By Daniel Shu
I will be up-front and address the necessities: For the last five years of my life, I thought the local and sustainable movement in our city was part of a larger conspiracy of a liberal-free-love coup d’état, and it made me nervous as ...
Get a job!
By Nicole Mucci (Cap Courier)
Though summer time in Vancouver is in already full swing, some students are still looking for the perfect summer job. Unfortunately, good work often comes at the expense of good fun. Josh Holmes, a Capilano University graduate, summed this ...
Million dolllar math
By Suleiman Mohamed
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a millionaire? Well, one of the many options is to solve any of the Millennium Problems.
These are comprised of seven math problems, some of which have existed for decades and others ...
Sympathy for the devil
By Jeremy Janz
Anarchy. Anarchist. Violence. Thugs. The first step in the oppressors act of oppression is to dehumanize those they desire to oppress and those who challenge their authority. The response to the “violence” of anarchists during the G20 ...
Kyrgyzstan: Victim of domestic violence and foreign apathy
By Reid Standish
Central Asia is a region that exists in relative obscurity to many in the West. Few people know about it in detail and even fewer people care. The region that was once home to the Silk Road now holds a different trade route: becoming central ...
Baby's first press trip
By Stacey McLachlan
Very suddenly, I am a travel writer. After months of working for nearly free as an editorial intern, I have been offered my first free-lance assignment. As in, writing an article. For money. I’m being sent on a press trip to a resort on ...
The great outdoors
By Jenny Shutek
The grounded, inward-focused serenity of yoga is in many ways the antitheses of the university student’s mentality. It is so easy to become caught up in the hectic pace of student life that you forget to come up for air every now and then. ...
TV & Me
By Tomas Hatal
I am just now beginning to realize to what extent television has skewed my expectations of reality. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nothing compared to LSD, but the subtle and insinuating alterations that TV wreaks on the minds of the weak ...
Of games and guns
By David Proctor
At long last, social science has done something useful: it has vindicated my adolescence. My mother’s worries that the unhealthy stretches of time that I spent playing video games would stunt my moral development and turn me into some sort ...
SFU's family housing crisis
By David Newman
Family housing residence term policies at Simon Fraser University are out of line with the policies at other universities throughout Canada. At SFU, students are eligible for 12 semesters of residence (four years) with the possibility of ...
Save the dolphins in Taji
By Kay Ochiai
Planning on going to Mexico this summer? Do you see yourself playing with wild animals such as dolphins? You may want to take a look at this article. As you would’ve probably guessed from reading the title, I’m talking about dolphins and what ...
Canada’s piracy plague
By Leif Larsen (The Manitoban)
In mid-March, a Montreal man was convicted of illegally recording a movie in the theatre, and sentenced to two and a half months in jail. This case is significant, not only because it represents the first conviction under Canada’s newly ...