An open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Dear Justin, Roughly this time last year, I wrote in these hallowed pages about my admiration-verging-on-mancrush for you. I came to Canada shortly before you were elected and initially came …
Dan Morrison
Yearning for The Only Café overseas
My favourite moment at The Only was when Chris mistook the door-high patio window for the open doorway next to it, careening into it at a pace that was too …
Poverty in the UK: a real problem
Poverty is a problem in the UK, contrary to the opinions of some. In recent years the amount of food banks rise from 50-odd to over five hundred within the …
#FirstWorldProblems: a legitimate struggle?
Two weeks in to my first week of university and I was in the midst of a crisis. I had broken my cafetiere (fancy coffee press). My friend told me …
Reconciling Islam and the West through knowledge
On March 23, distinguished professors Dr. Anver Emon and Dr. Mohamma Salaama lectured for Trent’s Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Accessibility. The “Embracing Difference in Difficult Times: Rights, Faith, …
WTF: war, terrorism and fear
It’s all senseless isn’t it? Or maybe it just doesn’t make any sense. Is that the same? Ah, I don’t really care. But people have been killed, rather than died. …
Embracing difference in difficult times
On March 23, Trent’s Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Accessibility (CHREA) will host talks on rights, faith, identity and Muslims, from 4p.m., to 5:30p.m., in Bagnani Hall at Traill …
Wander to Artspace to understand your identity
March 4 saw the opening of Artspace’s newest exhibition, Wanderings, a new body of artwork by Meryl McMaster. The Ottawa-based artist explores her relationship to “cultural identity within the larger …
Roots and Routes conference sheds light on global refugee crises
In hindsight, it is so obvious. There were the Vietnamese and Cambodian “boat people” of the 70s and the boats of Rohingyas from Myanmar (Burma), pushed around last year in …
Social media, self-love and mental illness
Co- written by Tyler Majer The Negative: Social media is an interactive medium that has grown at a speed quicker than anything that human beings have encountered in the past …