“That picture looks nothing like me!”
I went to get my graduation picture taken a few weeks ago. It was a long time in the offing. I bought a new white… Continue Reading ›
Spring is such a beautiful time of year; the snow begins to melt and the plants start to germinate, fostering the beginning of the conflict… Continue Reading ›
I went to get my graduation picture taken a few weeks ago. It was a long time in the offing. I bought a new white… Continue Reading ›
Joy Santiago
During the 45-minute wait for the bus the other week Monday, in a ridiculous late-winter snowstorm, I came up with a great idea for… Continue Reading ›
Eric Williams
Groovy, man. Every year, in the last weekend of July, the teddy bears gather for their picnic, on the Island of Guelph Lake. Yes… Continue Reading ›
Riaz Sayani-Mulji
Another Israeli Apartheid Week, the fourth one at McMaster, is in the books. Leaving aside the argument of whether the actions taken by the… Continue Reading ›
Nazihah Bakhtyar
In a society where obesity and unhealthy food choices are becoming an epidemic, on the other side of the spectrum is an obsession to… Continue Reading ›
Rohan Nair
I brought Twitter to the MSU. It was last year during Vishal Tiwari’s presidential campaign, in which I implemented Twitter into Vishal’s website so… Continue Reading ›
I can’t win. The biggest hockey game in eight years and I had a yet-unbegun proposal due the next day. And of course I wasn’t going to miss the game to work on it. But nor was I going to head to the bar or a friend’s house, like every single other sentient Canadian. No, I wasn’t going to do any of that to watch the national team play the Americans for the ultimate in international sports acclaim. What I was going to do was sit in my basement apartment and watch the game alone so that I could work immediately before and immediately after it. He shoots, he scores.
Kevin Elliott
OPINION
Do we as Canadians even understand our own patriotism, yet alone our own country? A recent nationwide poll revealed that over half of respondents voted the 2010 Vancouver Olympics as the defining moment in Canada’s history.
Dave Pridham
OPINION
In the Feb. 11 edition of The Silhouette, Peter Goffin argued that recent military recruitment commercials encourage criminals [sic] to join the Canadian Forces (CF). He also suggested that CF members are “stunted” or “deficient” in some way. As a former soldier, I would like to respond to these claims.
Mr. Goffin pointed out three separate cases of CF members who were charged with or convicted of violent crimes in 2005, 2008, and the recent case of Colonel Williams. He then argued that violent imagery in current CF recruiting campaigns is partially to blame for attracting such violent personalities to the military. But the new recruitment ads only began in late 2006, and the soldiers involved in these crimes would have enrolled in the military years earlier. For example, Colonel Williams joined the CF in the late 1980s. It therefore seems fair to say that the three-year-old recruitment campaign did not draw these people to the armed forces.
John Galt
OPINION
It’s been quite easy for politicos the world over to dismiss Sarah Palin as a backwoods joke hellbent on embarrassing the nation each time she opens her mouth: her inability to name a newspaper she reads, her claim that she can see Russia from her door, her folksy way of speaking. But are the experts making a big mistake in writing Palin off as a joke? You betcha.