Farzeen Foda Senior News Editor “Sports are awesome,” said Andrew Pettit, sports camps and leagues coordinator of McMaster Athletics and Recreation. Unfortunately, the nature of competitive sport is such that exclusionary comments and name-calling are commonplace. Athletics and Recreation has taken an active stance against homophobia in the University’s athletic facilities through Positive Space […]
Dina Fanara Assistant News Editor November has been labeled ‘Stress Month’ by the newly formed Advocacy department of the McMaster Students Union (MSU). Through the month, the Advocacy Street Team will be holding table days every Tuesday on the first floor of the student centre, where students can come to get tips and free […]
Brandon Meawasige Assistant Sports Editor On March 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what would become one of the most recognizable and influential speeches in U.S. history to a peacefully protesting crowd who consumed the capital area of Washington. King’s efforts, joined by the quarter of a million Americans who marched with him […]
Erin Chesney Silhouette Staff It’s a few minutes before the lecture will commence. I walk into class, sit in my usual front seat and begin to prepare for the subsequent 50 minutes of note-taking and attentiveness. That young, 20-25 year old man or woman with a huge smile and condescending attitude walks onto the […]
Ryan Mallough Silhouette Staff Listen to the sound of my voice. You are falling into a deep state of relaxation. Let me take you back to the year 2004. The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years. George Bush started his second presidential term after beating John Kerry, and the […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor If somebody said that David Adams Richards, a prominent Canadian novelist from New Brunswick, would have stopped by the smoke stacks of Hamilton to discuss the finer things in life, the appropriate response would be to ask if the individual was taking any illicit materials. Illicit materials or not, Richards […]
Andrew Terefenko Opinions Editor Three British Columbia teens were, until recently, engaged in a pretty ‘super’ practice. They concocted the brilliant scheme of dressing as superheroes, luring child predators to a location, and capturing them on hidden camera for online videos, which would force the authorities to act on the information. RCMP authorities, of […]
Sonya Khanna Business Editor The Canadian Auto Workers union has implemented a new independent trust fund, called the Auto Sector Retiree Health Care Trust, which aims to cover the costs of supplementary health care benefits for General Motors Canada retirees and CAW represented employees as of June 8, 2009. “The new healthcare trust is another […]
Sonya Khanna Business Editor Two decades of less-than-optimal productivity growth in Canada can be blamed for lower than attainable individual wealth and corporate profits. Let the finger pointing and angry jeers ensue. According to a report published by the Conference Board of Canada, if Canadian productivity had been on par with that of the United […]
Brian Decker Executive Editor The Ontario Liberals’ plan to give a 30 per cent discount on tuition may end up costing some students a little bit more. The Liberals’ election promise, which offered a 30 per cent decrease in the cost of tuition to students from households earning less than $160,000 per year, may be […]
