“A humanitarian is always a hypocrite,” wrote George Orwell in a 1942 essay on the English reactionary poet Rudyard Kipling. Our existences all closely depend on the exploitation and robbery of dollar-a-day…

Teens have always been seen as rebellious, unrestrained, and sometimes overtly sexual in the eyes of adults. And of course, adults seldom miss an opportunity to reprimand us for our less than innocent…

Section 2b of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that “everyone has freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;” The First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees a similar right: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting [...]

All jokes aside, it’s actually a very good question presented by Haddaway in their song “What Is Love?”. What is love? Maybe even more importantly; what is love for a teenager? On one side of the spectrum…

There was a time when computers did not exist. Phones were awkward and clunky, television yielded two channels, and discs were made of vinyl with only one song on it. Students bore the three-mile walk to school every morning (uphill both ways), took the transit if it stretched past five, and sought research books from [...]

When then presidential candidate Barack Obama promised universal health care during the 2008 presidential campaign, most people gave a thumbs up to the idea. Democrats loved it. Republicans didn’t dare speak against it. Heck, even Republican candidate John McCain was proposing health care reform. Now, as President Obama is tackling the issue, the roadblocks seem [...]

This wasn’t a fast realization, nor was it one that I considered lightly when it did hit me with all the subtlety of a train crushing a baby to prove a vague point about something that has nothing to do with this.  Somewhere between terrorism making its way into my local library, holes in the [...]

As humans, we all learn to read and write with paper. Many of us know paper comes from trees in the form of pulp, through various, tedious and complex processes. Paper gives us education, information and leisure, and it’s no doubt that many institutions and civilizations rely on it. But many are not even aware [...]

Since the last Christmas terror plot when a man attempted to detonate explosives on a plane going to Detroit from Amsterdam, the question on everyone’s mind is how did Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab get explosives on the plane? After all, airport security in the last decade has increasingly tightened to the point of inconvenience after each [...]

When was the last time you heard the phrase “be a man,” or “act like a lady?” How many times have you heard the reprimanding “girls don’t play with toy cars,” or “real boys don’t cry?” Our society is rife with…