Sonya Khanna Business Editor Despite a continuing pessimistic attitude about world markets and the impact of the European debt crisis on the global financial system, encouraging employment figures for September have prompted a rejuvenated attitude. Canada pumped out 61,000 net new full-time jobs in September, nudging the unemployment rate down to an optimistic 7.1 […]
Sonya Khanna Business Editor Cue the violins and sit back and watch as angry BlackBerry users flood social media outlets with bitter rants of hatred for Research In Motion. It seems BlackBerry users just can’t catch a break given the recent outage, ousting millions of users from BBM, email and texting services and hindering […]
Sonya Khanna Business Editor Tipping etiquette: yes there’s such a thing. Although it might not be popular terminology in a student atmosphere, it is a widely accepted practice. Students may scoff at the notion of tipping, understandably due to the general lack of funds associated with student life. I’m certain many can empathize with […]
Kevin Browne The Silhouette Web and mobile startups are Hamilton's hot new industry, and there are some great opportunities coming up for students to join in on the fun. Sounds like a faux pas, doesn’t it? Isn't Hamilton the city of smoke stacks and steel? Well, not anymore. Now we're becoming a software city, […]
Shama Kassam The Silhouette Writing a resumé effectively is an important skill, and especially in a time where graduate jobs are scarce, everyone is looking for what to do to make their resumé stand out. First of all, it’s not an arts and crafts project. Usually, employers are not looking for strange bells and […]
Jenna Shamoon Silhouette Staff Tattoos, once considered a tacky part of countercultural societies, have now become a popular form of body art and self expression by all types of individuals. There have been stigmas attached to getting a tattoo, along with stereotypes about the people who get them. But these days, the world does not […]
Roy Campbell The Silhouette If there's one thing I remember about the provincial election more than anything else, it's the advertisements. Not the attack ads fired back and forth between the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives, irritating though they were; I'm talking about the ads urging everyone simply to vote, period. For a month or […]
Andrew Terefenko Opinions Editor I think pumpkins are kind of weird. I don’t mean in that something-isn’t-quite-right way one might feel about dragonfruit or gooseberries. I mean in that fundamentally disturbing feeling I get from looking at them, touching them and eating things made from them. Right off the bat, I have trouble believing […]
Ryan Mallough Silhouette Staff The new Conservative government has been remarkably effective in its first months in power. To date it has eliminated the national gun registry, tabled their omnibus crime bill and introduced legislation cracking down on both human smugglers and refugees. Now the Harper government has set its sights on per-vote subsidies. […]
Erin Chesney Silhouette Staff Whether you are a recent victim of the ‘turkey dump’ or you are just feeling down in the dumps because of the amount of food you consumed this past weekend, post-Thanksgiving is a tough time for the university student. A combination of holiday dread and midterm stress […]
