By Kyle Young
Few have ever credited the Vatican with having a spotless past. Over the past few years the world heard Pope John Paul II apologize for several past lapses of conscience in the leadership of the Catholic Church. What must now be questioned is the worth of these apologies as the Church continues into Christianity’s third… Continue reading The Vatican’s decadent hypocrisy
This past August the Gauntlet, the fine paper you are currently reading, held the second Annual Ralph Klein pub crawl. Gauntleteers went to the King Eddy, the Cecil, the St. Louis, and the Bowness Hotel. Not every premier has a pub crawl named in his honour. I grew up in British Columbia and never heard… Continue reading Ralph’s alcoholism a smokescreen
By Kyle Young
Western nations are fighting a war. A war they started against a largely passive and non-offensive bunch. A war they claim to be losing. A war against drugs. How many resources do our governments expend in this war every year, and why did they start it in the first place? On giving thought to the… Continue reading War on Drugs a misguided pursuit
School is a sham. My marks last term became a function of my effort-my knowledge or intelligence had nothing to do with it. This situation begs the obvious questions: Why go through the charade at all? Is there a point to attending university when I can correctly predict my grade point average by mid-November with… Continue reading A new marking methodology
By Kyle Young
If a deodorant merely masks and conceals odors can it truly be considered a deodorant?In the same vein of thought, is a union who represents the majority of five percent of a total body truly a union? More to the point, if said union possessed none of the abilities of negotiation for which unions were… Continue reading One club to rule them all
I’ve lived in Canada for about two and a half years and people always ask the same question: What is a black African female doing in Calgary? Whenever this happens, I’m always caught between my own thoughts on the hypocrisies and shallowness of the West, and my ideas on the misconstrued perception of Africa.Now I… Continue reading Expanding your mind
By Вen Li
We’re lucky, you and I, to live where we can step outside and enjoy the great outdoors at will. Well, at least we’re lucky to have a great outdoors to enjoy, in a world so riddled with violence, war and turmoil. Looking out the classroom window, it might be difficult to believe that the largest,… Continue reading A time to pause and appreciate: Often overlooked, the beauty of nature is awe-inspiring
Stop fooling yourselves. White dreadlocked boys banging on bongos while singing Bob Marley songs in a pseudo-patois do not fight globalization.Large corporations, with the complicity and aid of Western governments, are eager to exploit the labour and resources of the Third World. This is not a recent phenomenon. It has been going on for time… Continue reading The power of the consumer: The dollar is mightier than the dreadlock
Of all the ideas Christians have stolen, Christmas is certainly my favourite. Yet every year a cynical minority make two complaints against Christmas. First, why should they celebrate it when they don’t even believe in the birth of “Christ.” Second, Christmas has lost all meaning as a result of commercialization. Feel downtrodden no more, weathered… Continue reading Sun worship and other Christmas traditions–Everything you never knew about Charlie Brown’s favourite holiday
Have you ever seen the cartoon “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips?”I doubt you have, as it has been banned. It’s a World War II era short featuring Bugs, in his pre-Chuck Jones drawn days, matching wits with a not too bright Japanese soldier. The soldier looks like any other mid-20th century American stereotype of an… Continue reading Picking up the pieces made easy