Seventeen years have passed since Ontario’s sex education curriculum was last updated. Within that time, same-sex marriage became legal in Canada in 2005, the rules around consent were further defined, and children as young as […]
Controversy swirled after Tuesday’s announcement of a few suspect roster choices for Canada’s 2014 Sochi Olympic hockey team. Now, the squabbling continues over who among the 25 capable hockey players deserves to wear the C, […]
The United States of America strikes again. American citizens, who also happen to be Muslim, are under surveillance in an effort to prevent terrorism. The question of whether there is any evidence that can lead […]
Arguments over the ethics of receiving compensation for blood donation seem trivial when a portion of the Canadian population is still unethically barred from donating. Homosexual men who have had relations with other men since […]
Social media have picked up on Amnesty International’s online plea to support a first ever bulletproof Arms Trade Treaty being negotiated by world leaders to help keep weapons out of the hands of rapists, warlords […]
Mayor Rob Ford’s seemingly limitless penchant for buffoonery has masked the most important feature of his administration: it hasn’t really done anything. Ford is a man who stands by his word, which, presumably, means that […]
To the military they are known as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems), but they are more commonly known as drones. Due to recent findings, the term “targeted killings” may seem […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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