By Kathryn Aedy
It’s 8-ish a.m. on a Tuesday. Over the span of 30 minutes, three buses at full capacity (all separate routes) slow down beside a bus stop just long enough to see the half-dozen people wanting to board, before speeding away, leaving stranded students, seniors, mamas and babies without the means to travel to their destinations… Continue reading Transit crisis
It seems that fashion has taken another turn for the worse, if worse is actually possible. The world has already seen garbage bag dresses and skeleton-like bodies laden with overpriced, ridiculous costumes actually making it difficult for the wearer to walk. But now parts of the fashion industry have resorted to an even more preposterous… Continue reading Outrageous handbags
By Deepa Sury
Flip through the pages of any Indian newspaper and you will find a section dedicated to matchmaking, where profiles of young, single men and women are placed in order to attract a potential husband or wife. These profiles are usually posted at the request of family members, who aim to present their children in the… Continue reading Far beyond a bleached blonde
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton The role of a federal penitentiary is to clear our streets of crime and corruption by detaining those who have failed to conduct themselves within the confines of the law and condition them to pursue a course of legal sanity. However, when a… Continue reading The cost of neglect: riots erupt in a Mexican prison
By Daniel Pagan
A long time ago in a far away country, a Prime Minister struggled against rebel ministers in his party, who called for a leadership race. The rebels predicted heavy defeats for the party in the next general election due to the prime minister’s unpopularity, while the renewed Conservative menace waited in the dark. Wait a… Continue reading The ghost of Caesar
Towards the end of the summer, 38 people were infected by listeriosis, 18 of whom died. This horrific epidemic gives rise to the serious question of how this could have happened. Some have been quick to blame free markets, others, the government. Perhaps the real cause of this sad event is simply the existence of… Continue reading Averting an epidemic: market solutions for Canada’s food safety
By Ryan Pike
As late as the early part of the 20th century, the world was dominated by states. States shaped laws. States shaped behaviours. States shaped economies. Much in the same way states defined the century before, recent years have seen the world dominated by corporations. As England, the United States and the Soviet Union stretched their… Continue reading It’s a Google world, we’re just living in it
By Neil Griffin
Last week, Calgarians experienced a spate of three shootings in 14 hours, including one that left a Brazilian student permanently blinded. In the wake of these events, Mayor Dave Bronconnier, for the second time in as many months, petitioned Premier Ed Stelmach for $25 million to add 200 new officers to Calgary’s beleaguered and undermanned… Continue reading Stelmach gives criminals the silent treatment
It’s pretty unbelievable what people will do to look different from one another. With the recent release of The Dark Knight, there’s a whole legion of people donning the cracked white makeup of Heath Ledger’s Joker in an attempt to differentiate from their other, partying peers. At first blush, it’s beyond ridiculous– a bunch of… Continue reading Playing around with loneliness
No matter their differences, Muslims around the world unite to abandon food and drink from dawn to sunset during Ramadan. Unfortunately, even with this common to most sects of Islam, that unity is quickly being replaced by contradiction and Muslims are left to face the consequences of blunders resulting from a disconnect between what is… Continue reading Shaming Ramadan: attacks blight the Holy Month