Category: Communities

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What does a parent do when they don't like the books being offered at their children's school? How one parent took matters into his own hands

After years of chemically straightening her hair, one girl discovers that going natural isn't easy

By Vanessa Thomas In order to make room for their expansion in Canada, Europeans killed natives, like the Micmac and Beothuks, who they saw as impediments to their expansion in places like Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. But in this century, aboriginals do not live in fear of being hunted, killed and scalped for 10 pounds […]

By Vanessa Thomas A musky scent is released into the halls of Jorgenson Hall as Mark Bell burns traditional sweet grass in room 345A, the office of the Aboriginal Student Circle (ASC). Weekly meetings are home to a purification ritual called smudging, meant to cleanse the mind, body and spirit. Besides being a place to […]

Polite Canadians and obnoxious Americans - stereotypes, assumptions and stupid questions create an invisible barrier between the two countries

April 27, 1994. Finbarr O'Reilly writes of his experiences as an election monitor in South Africa

By Kerrie-Lee Brown Imagine you and your partner are having sex when the condom breaks or slips off. Did you forget to take your regular birth control as well? What is your first thought? Pregnancy? Maybe. Maybe not. But if it is, you will most likely spend the next morning wondering if you are pregnant. […]

Caught in between cultures, Canadian-born Chinese discover a bridge leading to the best of both worlds

Christianity's newest testament heals through the Internet

As of December 11, it was legal for women to go topless in public. However, according to our moral code they are still commiting a crime