Heat win 16th consecutive game
The Miami Heat needed some last-moment heroics against Orlando to keep their own winning streak alive in the NBA. They erased a five-point deficit in the final minutes of play to beat the Magic […]
Month: March 2013
Sens rookie knocked out, Hawks keep rolling
The Leafs beat the Sens 5-4 in NHL action last night, but the loss of Ottawa rookie David Dziurzynski is what people are talking about today. Dziurzynski’s night ended very early after he got into […]
Tears and cheers in response to Chavez’s death
The news of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death Mar. 5 shook up the entire world. Not only Latin Americans but people from other regions and countries broke into tears. By contrast, some Western countries such […]
End Violence on Campus- McMaster Edition
On Thursday Mar. 7, McMaster University students, working alongside the Sexual Assault Centre for Hamilton Area and the YWCA, celebrated the launch of their two-year campaign to end violence towards women on their campus. The […]
America: land o’ lawsuits
The days of merely disagreeing with a fellow citizen have given way to the days of legalized bullying in a tsunami of civil lawsuits. With potential payouts in the thousands, the lawsuit industry of America costs […]
Gun violence in Toronto: Symptom of a bigger problem
A 15-year-old is gunned down in an apartment stairwell in Regent Park in late January. Not even a week later, a 9-year-old is shot dead in his own home in Brampton as a bullet tears […]
“Language creep” leads to mission creep
As the conflict in Mali devolves into erratic, guerilla style fighting, and Western military involvement drags on without any definitive end in sight, citizens on both sides of the Atlantic are becoming increasingly concerned with […]
Women still earn far less than men
While Canada is often praised for the leaps it has made towards gender equality, a major source of inequality persists. The gender wage gap – or, the difference between what men and women earn in […]
Super Bowl ads insult both men and women
Take one average looking man, paired with one impossibly gorgeous woman, and add a dash of the latest car, beer, cell phone, or other product needing to be sold and you’ve got the latest crop […]