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Canada may get medals, but doesn't get sportsmanship

Canada may get medals, but doesn't get sportsmanship

04 March 2010
The Vancouver Olympic Games have been an unmitigated disaster. The endless laundry list of blunders on the part of Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) and the underachievement of many favoured Canadian athletes have disappointed hearts domestically, and dominated headlines internationally. What exactly has gone wrong? 1. Before the Games opened, Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed…

Black History Month: two writers explore the grey area

04 March 2010
Pro: Tejas Parasher The charge usually brought against Black History Month is that it's divisiveness. For many, bombarding students with tales of Rosa Parks and the Million Man March in February—and only in February—seems to imply that Black History is somehow separate from American (or Canadian) History. Critics constantly harp on how, at least in…

iPad, therefore I need it?

07 February 2010
On January 27, Apple unveiled its latest gadget, the iPad, a tablet computer. The company touts the device as "the best way to experience the web, email, photos, and video. Hands down." Two of our writers butt heads over its virtues and drawbacks.   Andrew Gyorkos - Contra-iPad For too long, Apple has been using…

We don't need no... more students in university

28 January 2010
Everyone likes to feel good. Most people also like to feel they are doing some good in the world; however, even the best of intentions don’t always lead to the best outcomes. Subsidizing ethanol production comes to mind. So does bringing democracy to Iraq. In the same vein, the righteous urge that many people feel…

Obama's first year in office

28 January 2010
January 20 marked the anniversary of American President Barack Obama's inauguration. As the Obama presidency teeters between hopeful and hopeless, the newspaper asks two writers to face off over whether his first year has been a success or a failure. Contra - Joseph Uranowski According to the standards President Barack Obama set for himself in…

Google calls out China

21 January 2010
On January 12, Google shocked the world, especially China's 384 million netizens. In his statement “A new approach to China,” CLO David Drummond threatened to pull the company’s business out of China after it discovered that the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists had been hacked.

the op-ed: Student life or something like it

21 January 2010
On December 30, 2009, PM Stephen Harper prorogued parliament, creating a catalyst for debate on accountability in democracy and the power of elected officials. For the majority of his political life, Stephen Harper opposed making appointments to fill vacancies in the Upper House, described pejoratively as “Canada’s Unelected Senate.” A debate over the accountability of…

400 Words Each: Sanitizer Insanity

21 January 2010
By now we've all seen them. Waiting for us by the exit to the washroom, or by the entrance to the shopping mall, or in the arms of a couple of my drunken friends after Nuit Blanche. Hand sanitizers: Modern, do-good iconoclasts who are stealing the jobs of hard-working hand soaps. Saviour or menace? Two…

U of T doesn't see Forestry for the green

14 January 2010
We have all experienced being trapped inside the political minefield that is our educational institution. One of my many stories involve playing for a varsity athletics team whose annual budget ranked 30 out of 30 in the nation, indicating the simple fact that athletics mean relatively little here. We played while enduring whispers that the…

Should U of T ban bottled water?

14 January 2010
The U of T Water Initiative is a partnership encouraging students to use refillable water bottles rather than the disposable variety. With an approaching city-wide ban on the sale of plastic water bottles, the newspaper encouraged two writers to butt heads on the issue until they got dry in the mouth.

Blue Dogs, Republicans tie Obama's hands on healthcare

07 January 2010
Wilfrid Laurier, Canada’s seventh Prime Minister, was known as “the Great Conciliator” through his tenure as PM from 1896 to 1911. Laurier managed to reign as the fourth longest serving Prime Minister (with a huge majority government win in 1900 and 1904) by always seeking compromise.

U of T alum unleashes political firestorm

26 November 2009
Last week, senior Canadian foreign service employee, and former U of T IR student, Richard Colvin, "blew the whistle" on the Canadian government's lack of response to several reports of detainees being abused at the hands of Afghan security and intelligence forces.

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