Archive | October, 2009

Opinion

Opinion: Car cellphones a convenient danger

While I have never been a fan of the flashing-blue-light-in-the-ear look, or of people babbling into thin air, if the new rule is going to help protect my life and the lives of countless others on the road, I guess I’m willing to look a little goofy.


Features

Mixed reviews for Internet censorship

“I can understand why the government would want to screen sexual content (on public computers), but where I’m from in Greece, there’s a lot of classical art that depicts some form of nudity…. So in a sense, some nudity is OK,” Aaron Kapoulas said. “The question is… where would the government draw the line?”


News

‘Vaccine fever’ hits East York

‘Vaccine fever’ hits East York

The East York Civic Centre was one of only two venues for Toronto Public Health immunization clinics to open yesterday — five days earlier than planned, following a sudden spike in swine flu cases, and the death of a Toronto teenager from the virus.


News

‘John sweep’ in East York

“These men need to be educated. It’s good for them to see what effect this has on an ex-hooker that was addicted to drugs and was selling her body for $10, and find out the diseases they could be bringing home to their families, let alone that they have to live with,” Det. Higgins said.


Opinion

Editorial: Body Worlds is respectful

The volunteers who gave their bodies for this purpose may well have agreed that the body is a temple. They’re simply allowing their beneficiaries to display that temple in a new and unique way.


Features

Game ‘architect’ comes to campus

Game ‘architect’ comes to campus

As design director, Jason MacIsaac compares himself to an architect. He can envision the grand scheme of a game, but when it comes down to building it, he relies on those within the artistic and mathematical trades.


Features

Up the street to play the numbers

“If you see the screen and it says that you’re a winner, then nobody can cheat you. But for older people, they do not always check the screen and sometimes if they are a winner of $100 or $200 the storeowner will tell them that they only won $10 and keep the rest of the money,” Peter Chen said.


Arts & Life

‘Laid’ lays it on the line about teen sex

‘Laid’ lays it on the line about teen sex

Realizing that the attention she received through sex wasn’t positive, and that the power she thought she would gain through it never came, Boodram self-esteem suffered. While away at school in Baltimore, Shannon Boodram shared her experiences and heard many similar tales.