Christina Pugliese The Silhouette With a season of civil unrest upon us, many have questioned the authenticity of protesters’ concerns. In this day and age, how can we distinguish the agitators from the real deal? It turns out that the answer, at least in the present case, may be less baffling than one would expect. […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor Halloween had more than its share of frights, bumps, and bruises this year. On Oct. 29, at a Halloween event hosted by TwelvEighty, three men, two of which sustained knife wounds to their chests while the other suffered facial injuries, were rushed to hospital. A fourth may have also […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor Although Halloween may be a time where our younger selves yearn the bygone days of mountainous piles of sweets and goodies, a group of students from McMaster, dressed primarily in gorilla costumes, have found something else to go bananas about. In an effort to promote Fair Trade consumption and awareness, […]
Julia Redmond The Silhouette ‘Tis the season for visits to campus from eager high-school seniors. Last Thursday, annual Canadian university rankings were released to inform their decisions. The Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report and Maclean’s University Rankings offer up a fresh batch of statistics, placing McMaster relatively high in many categories. McMaster maintained […]
Dina Fanara Assistant News Editor Each year, McMaster’s Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) joins forces with local stores and vendors of fair trade products to put on the annual Fair Trade Fair in the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC) atrium. The fair, which has been taking place for over ten years, shrunk slightly in […]
Bushra Habib & Ruth Tshikonde Silhouette Staff & The Silhouette The Globe and Mail featured McMaster’s approach to education in an Oct. 24 article, examining correlations between an undergraduate education and the quality of jobs graduates could obtain. The recent recession resulted in the creation of over 300,000 new jobs for those possessing an […]
Dina Fanara Assistant News Editor Led by professor Sam Vrankulj, the students of Labour Studies 2A03 (Unions) were given a rare opportunity to participate in a Policy Resolution Convention simulation on Nov. 1. The event normally occurs whenever a union changes a resolution and allows all members to vote on the changes made in […]
Farzeen Foda Senior News Editor As the prevalence of obesity and the proportion of the population at high risk of particular chronic diseases increases year after year, diet and lifestyle continue to be flagged as the top contributors to these unappetizing figures. Meanwhile, the top-dollar brands behind the foods that likely sparked the epidemic, […]
Jennifer D’Cruz The Silhouette “We are what we eat,” is an age-old adage familiar to almost everyone, but today it is becoming increasingly more questionable with the advent of genetically modified (GM) foods. Initially, in the 1940’s the Green Revolution transformed farming practice to create high-yielding crops through usage of pesticides, intense breeding and […]
Natalie Timperio InsideOut Editor YouTube, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Like any technologically adept person, I value YouTube for its many uses. I’ve bookmarked the site on Firefox and frequent it most often to watch beauty tutorials. Ladies, and perhaps gentlemen, there is quite possibly no better (and free) […]
