Last December, several leading French language advocacy groups joined together to decry the effects of a notable exception to Bill 101
That's it? That's the emotional breakdown that blows the election for [Hillary Clinton]? I'm glad no one here ever sees me get a flu shot," quipped Jon Stewart on the Jan 8 Daily Show episode in reaction to the media frenzy surrounding Senator Clinton's "emotional" moment after her loss in Iowa.
When shopping for lingerie, I don't usually consider the impact of my choice on the state of the world. "Lace or cotton?" I wonder. "Or perhaps, thong or boy-cut?" Not until this past holiday season, however, did "will these panties do more to help the AIDS crisis in Africa than these ones?" become part of my deliberation.
The National Parole Board (NPB) decision to deny parole to Robert Latimer has put our justice system into disrepute. Robert Latimer is a Saskatchewan man who cared for his daughter Tracy for the first 12 years of her life, but then caused her death because, he says, he couldn't stand to see her suffer.
This year America has already made it abundantly clear that the campaign for "change" will determine the next president…but who will it be? Barack Obama's slogan, "Change we can believe in," has been so successful that nearly every other candidate-Democrat and Republican-has adapted it to his or her own campaign.
It's not like it used to be." These are the words of a friend of mine-an Egyptian-born Sunni Muslim raised in Dubai. I had asked him if the effects of the Sunni-Shia divide were palpable even in Arab-Canadian circles. Freshman year, he told me, we were all Arabs.
In my case, it was the pencil that broke the camel's back. I was in the McGill bookstore for my bi-annual office supply purchase, when I came across a shocking new product-the PaperMate anti-bacterial mechanical pencil. With a label that proudly touts both the pencil's patented "Flex-Grip" technology as well as the innovative bacterially resistant coating, this is one writing implement that every germophobe, hypochondriac and obsessive-compulsive on campus can't afford to be without.