Rally cries out for action in Darfur
If not now, when? If not us, who? Activists, politicians and artists used that message to urge the Canadian government to take a stronger active role in Darfur at Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square on April…
Opinion
Dressing to impress in class
Only a small portion of local elementary school students don the grey pants, ties, sweater vests and kilts in class. Uniform schools are a minority amongst youngsters in east Toronto, but this month Catholic schools…
Only one hour to save our earth?
Earth Hour has come to Toronto. The event has been a fixture in the media and is generating buzz online. But what will the popular initiative accomplish in the long run? Probably nothing.
Drivers wage war on the road
Road rage has gone too far. There was a recent episode where a student leaving Centennial College’s Progress campus accidentally cut off another driver. The slighted driver followed the student all the way up to…
U-Pass fails to satisfy students
The Universal Transit Pass or U-Pass, offered by the TTC, promised full-time students in post-secondary institutions unlimited travel on regular services aboard the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) or York Region Transit (YRT).
Science takes motherhood into the golden years
On Dec. 29, 2006, the BBC broke the story on a 66-year-old women successfully giving birth to twin boys in Barcelona, Spain making her the oldest known birth mother in the world. Identified later as…
Flaherty takes flak for ‘hypocritical’ attacks on Ontario
A noted Toronto political scientist calls the federal finance minister’s actions before the tabling of the Ontario budget unprecedented. Last Monday, federal finance minister Jim Flaherty called a press conference on the eve of Ontario’s…
Students need loan advocacy
The debate over student loans and tuition is not new and the issue often sounds so large and complicated that when undergrads, prospective students and parents hear about it, their instinct is to simply be…
Retail employees deserve a break too
Boxing Day in Canada is synonymous with mass crowds, good deals, and lots of shopping. But, just because one national holiday is all about shopping doesn’t mean every other holiday should be too. Last month’s…
Bad timing for election buzz
By Irina Burtan Filed February 24, 2008, from the HP Science and Technology Centre