Month: November 2010

By Gauntlet Editorial Board

Continuing an annual ritual you can set your clocks to, people will go into work Sunday to find they are an hour late. The most oblivious students will be late for class on Monday, left shaking their heads wondering how society could have ever wronged them so badly. This, dear readers, is the steep price… Continue reading Stop the temporal oppression

By Jocelyn Hunt

The American midterm elections this week sparked memories of the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries and the presidential election. That year, both had fierce competition between candidates, with future president Barack Obama versus Hillary Clinton for the Democrats, and Obama against John McCain in the presidential race. Although there were other candidates involved in the process,… Continue reading Abandon arbitrary qualities when voting

By Jeffrey Spooner

In May 2009, David Chen, a Toronto grocer, prevented a career criminal from robbing his store, performed a citizen’s arrest on the offender as he fled the scene and secured him in the back of a delivery van until the police arrived. Chen was then promptly arrested on charges of assault and forcible confinement. The… Continue reading The upside of self-serve justice

By Dominik Matusik

It’s hard to imagine the recording industry winning any major battles these days and it’s amusing to observe them rejoicing — apparently without irony — at minor victories like the recent court ruling ordering the complete shutdown of LimeWire’s P2P server. It’s incredible to think that the Recording Industry Association of America believes shutting down… Continue reading The death of LimeWire

By Brandon Beasley

There has recently been renewed discussion of the state of the health care system in this country. Health care is always high on the list of topics of political concern in this country, but with the federal and provincial health-care funding agreements set to expire around 2014 there is now a sense of greater urgency… Continue reading Time for a health care conversation

By Beenish Khurshid

The Canadian constitution is supposed to protect our freedoms. This charter, among other things, secures our right to freedom of speech. When a place of knowledge and learning declares itself exempt from the charter, a place that is protected under the charter to assemble freely and deliver information and knowledge to us freely, it becomes… Continue reading Online exclusive: The freedom to Facebook

By Kim Nursall

High-profile American politicians descended on campus last night to debate the Nov. 2 mid-term election results and speculate on what a divided Congress will mean for the future of American politics. Hosted by the University of Calgary School of Public Policy, the debate pitted Gov. Howard Dean Sen. Fred Thompson as they dissected Tuesday’s mid-term… Continue reading American politicians debate mid-term election at U of C

By Amy Badry

Science students voted in Jack Siu as their new faculty representative Oct. 28. With 43 per cent of the vote, Siu claimed the position of Science faculty representative. Ola Mohajer was a close second with 36 per cent of the vote and Philip Hanson third with 27 per cent. A total of 238 science students… Continue reading Siu defeats Mohajer in science rep election

By Kerry Leotowicz

New research suggests that increased exercise may not only increase the quality of a person’s life but also reduce the chance of cancer. Alberta Health Services cancer epidemiologist and adjunct professor at the University of Calgary’s faculty of medicine Dr. Christine Friedenreich and University of Alberta professor Dr. Kerry Courneya are setting out with 330… Continue reading Increased exercise may lower risk of breast cancer

By Susan Anderson

A new interactive online mapping tool has been developed by researchers at the University of Calgary for citizens to help track coyotes within the city. The program aims to address the public’s fear of coyotes by providing education and information on the animals. The tool allows Calgarians to register online and pin-point on Google maps… Continue reading Tool developed for tracking coyotes