Category: Communities

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Life on the border of conflict

September 16, 1998

Muslims in Macedonia feel the heat as civil war in nearby Kosovo threatens the uneasy peace.

Reggae, rude boys and homophobia

Will dancehall reggae ever change its homophobic tune? The genre sends a powerful message in Jamaica

Women’s Battalion of Death defied the rules

By Sarbi Jagpal While struggling to simultaneously cope with a national revolution and the First World War, the Russian army was in a sad state, in 1917. With a lack of proper supplies and weapons technology, the army was crippled by mass desertion and heavy losses in battle. Thousands of men simply refused to fight. […]

Bringing equity to Ryerson

It took almost a year to get the ball rolling, but RyeSAC's Advisory Committee on Equity shows no signs of slowing down

Not a day at the Beaches

When you're a WASP living in the Beaches, where do you go to find Canadian culture?

Is Quebec culturally superior?

What do French-Canadians know about Canadian culture? Paul Stark believes they can actually teach the rest of us a thing or two

What happened to Amistad?

By Saada Branker When Steven Spielberg’s film Amistad graced movie theatres late last year, the reaction was bittersweet. Some movie moguls hyped it as being an important epic about African slavery. Cynics denounced it as another feel-good Hollywood flick for bleeding heart liberals. With only four Oscar nominations — none of which are for best […]

Co-operate and save

February 18, 1998

You can save money and have a social conscience using consumer co-ops

A story for Chisani

February 18, 1998

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

Love your hair love your roots

November 19, 1997

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

Canada’s native tongues disappearing

November 5, 1997

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 […]

Aboriginal students come full circle

November 5, 1997

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 […]

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