By Вen Li
Last week, the University of Calgary Faculty of Management changed its name to honour local businessman and former U of C Board of Governors Chairman Dick Haskayne, who donated $16 million to the university. Money drives things, that’s great. We can never have too many people supporting post-secondary education. What’s bothersome is the school’s creative… Continue reading Business? Lying? Who knew?
What was he thinking?In the midst of a storm cloud of suspected corruption, the Liberals had just begun to see the light at the end of the tunnel.Suddenly, that light disappeared. Their leader blocked the exit with one Paul Martin, a formidable obstacle that will not be easily removed.Though summer vacation had been fast approaching,… Continue reading The circus rolls into Ottawa
There is a scene in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, sort of a novel within a novel, where the Grand Inquisitor is interrogating Christ upon his return to earth in 16th century Seville. The Inquisitor accuses the Christian messiah of misleading man with the gift of free will. Man is actually rebellious, and naturally would… Continue reading East is East and West is West
By James Keller
I just don’t get it.A bunch of people run around a field, kick a rubber ball around–careful not to touch it with their hands–and try to get it in a net on either side of an artificial field. And this is entertainment? I think somebody played a little too much dodgeball when they were little.This… Continue reading World what now?
Moola, moola, moola.Moola is fun. People work for moola. They spend countless years in school to get jobs that will earn a lot of moola. They marry for moola. Like Jordy Birch said, "if you have moola everything is good and everybody’s your friend." Apparently, even though the age-old saying goes "money can’t buy you… Continue reading For the love of money
By James Keller
After months of lies, betrayal, deception, backstabbing and ultimately winning $1 million in the third installment of Survivor, Vecepia Towery avowed that, among other things, she was thankful to God for her victory as the ultimate survivor."It was all him," she proclaimed, at the heel of a long victory speech during the final minutes of… Continue reading God gets voted off the island
The sob stories and excuses were almost enough to make me forgive.For two weeks, I ran around the Students’ Union offices hounding my elected and acclaimed officials because I wanted to find out what happened at a Canadian Alliance of Student Associations conference–a conference where five members of our SU attended on our student dollars.It… Continue reading Guess who’s wasting your money?
American Secretary of State Colin Powell is travelling to the Middle East this week. On the record, he’s there to try and find some solution to the ongoing troubles, namely Israel’s reoccupation of the West Bank. Off the record, he’s there to help his boss, the usurper-in-chief Dubya, extend his campaign in the war on… Continue reading The “Great Satan” all soft and cuddly
This past weekend I happened to read a piece in the Globe and Mail by John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine. In the piece, he points out that right-wing American commentators are using an article written by George Orwell in 1944 to justify civilian casualties in Dubya’s current campaign against terrorism. He then goes… Continue reading Knowing your history helps, kids
By Kyle Young
We can now all wave good-bye to Stockwell Day with a sigh of relief more collective than a mandate from CPIRG. Without a doubt, it’s a positive thing for right wingers everywhere that wetsuit boy has taken his jet ski and driven off into the sunset. However, the looming question remains: will Harper be able… Continue reading Wetsuit replaced by sound conservatism