Owning a Pet as a full-time Student
You shouldn’t do it – but you should totally do it. Living with a dog while being a full-time student is stressful and definitely limits my social calendar. I always need to be home to feed him dinner,...
View ArticleStar Wars Droids
Slaves? Reading Break is here, and nobody wants to think about anything heavy. So with that in mind: droid slavery in Star-Wars. Here we go. Droids are a part of everyday life in the Star-Wars...
View ArticleTrudeau and the Troops
Pensions, Payoffs, and Problems While Prime Minister Trudeau is currently under flack for forgetting that the term “humankind” exists, there is another problem that is gaining traction. Trudeau’s...
View ArticleMusic Shaming
What’s wrong with it? Music is a universal language. It connects everyone and makes us feel various emotions because it is a language all its own. Just like a language system has different dialects,...
View ArticleBritish Columbia Dragoons
The Student Soldier The British Columbia Dragoons (The Okanagan Reserve Force) hosted an open house in Vernon this past Sunday. They had their newly acquired, 20 Tonne, TAPV reconnaissance truck on...
View ArticleCrying Rape
Counterproductive to the real problem February is sexual assault awareness month. I have mixed feelings about the month. It is devastating that we even need to have a month dedicated to such a horrible...
View ArticleB.C. vs. Alberta
The standoff continues By Tyrel Lamoureux – Opinions Editor As a political science student, I can tell you that politics is revolutionary, exciting, and entertaining. In the past couple weeks,...
View ArticleThe Right to Offend
Why Can’t We Be Friends? Liberal snowflakes. Right wing fascists. These days you can’t say anything without upsetting someone or offending someone else. Hate speech is a crime, discrimination is...
View ArticleThe Injustice of Tina Fontaine
Racism and white privilege has claimed yet another victim. To begin, I would like to acknowledge that I am a white individual, and so although I believe educating myself and others is important,...
View ArticleSmoking on Campus
Just butt out Do adults not have the ability to make decisions regarding their own body and their own actions? What about if those actions directly affect their health and wellbeing? Well of course...
View ArticleNEW: Race Relations
A delicate problem done wrong. Race relations has become a hot topic of discussion over the last couple of years, and when the discussion is set in the right environment, and framed in the appropriate...
View ArticleThe Boushie Case: White privilege or big misunderstanding?
On Aug 9th, 2016, a young Cree man, Colton Boushie, was shot and killed on the farm of Gerald Stanley in Battleford, Saskatchewan. Colton, along with four friends, had driven onto the Stanley farm...
View ArticleProfessor’s Power Over Attendance
In the past I have discussed the controversy on laptops in class and how a professor should either be unable to prohibit them or should have to change their teaching methods to ensure notes are...
View ArticleElections: A Popularity Contest
As almost every UBCO student knows, the end of February and the beginning of March signals election time; a period where free food is frequently available, posters pop up at every corner, and Facebook...
View ArticleNew Life to The Well
The Well. That little piece of heaven nestled into the UNC. The perfect space for studying, catching up with friends (or professors if you’re lucky enough), all while enjoying a nice pint of cold beer....
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