Sonya Khanna Business Editor http://greatvines.com/canadian-pharmacy-healthcare Several cases have surfaced recently reporting the increasing popularity of invasive hiring practices adopted by companies. Recent outrage surrounding these unorthodox hiring practices raises the issue as to whether employers have pushed the boundaries, engaging in a seemingly unethical means of acquiring information. Facebook has become a crucial component […]
Fraser Caldwell Sports Editor In 1996, Mark Heese mounted an Olympic podium as one half of the third-best beach volleyball tandem on the planet. But years earlier as he entered university at McMaster, volleyball was a distant second priority for the ten-time Canadian national champion. Heese had family connections to the Maroon and Grey […]
Brandon Meawasige Assistant Sports Editor The McMaster women’s basketball team announced this week that local standout Danielle Boiago, point guard at Hamilton’s St. Thomas Moore Catholic Secondary School, has committed to spend her university basketball career as a Marauder. Boiago is the first recruit to commit to the women’s program this year, and will […]
Brian Decker and Sam Colbert Executive Editor and Managing Editor General Assembly (GA) has total control of the McMaster Students Union (MSU). It can recall presidents, change student fees and fundamentally repurpose the MSU and its services in whatever manner its attendees see fit. That is, as long as 601 people show up. That […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor It was among these questionable times, where differences seem to take precedent over similarities, and commonalities are anything but common, that TEDxMcMasterU hosted the event “Bridges and Barriers” on March 17. The McMaster conference included talks from 11 different speakers, whose careers varied as much as their speeches did. […]
Sam Colbert and Dina Fanara Managing Editor and Assistant News Editor Construction workers at the site of the to-be Shoppers Drug Mart and Starbucks building on Main Street West and Emerson Street, across the road from McMaster, caused a fire after hitting a gas line on March 15 around 1:40 p.m. Emergency vehicles surrounded […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor Home to some of the best minds in the country, McMaster University has grown to be a leading global figure in research initiatives. Whether it be through McMaster’s various Canada Research Chairs, a $300-million annually funded governmental program designed attract the world’s most promising researchers or it’s world-renowned teaching […]
Farzeen Foda Senior News Editor On March 17, amidst the St. Patrick’s Day festivities, was the first ever Global Engineering Conference hosted by the McMaster Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB). The event was held as part of National Engineering Month and was jointly sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Engineering and […]
Jemma Wolfe Senior ANDY Editor Amidst flashing lights, screaming fans and pulsing beats, The Weeknd took to the stage, opened his mouth and poured out his heart. The crisp high notes, powerful lyrics and crashing music of his opening song “High for This” swallowed up my skepticism about the recently famous Torontonian. So this, I […]
Cooper Long Radiohead’s exalted 1997 album OK Computer explores the themes of distrust of technology, alienation in a mechanized society and the emptiness of consumerism. Unfortunately, these are also some of the feelings that the ordeal of buying Radiohead tickets can bring about. I was ecstatic when the band expanded its tour two weeks ago […]
