by Dorothy Poon | Jan 15, 2020 | Op-eds, Opinions
Photo by Joshua Ngenda The lack of student housing in Victoria, B.C., is a well-documented phenomenon. From the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group’s (VIPIRG) 2017 report on the shortage’s impact on student wellness to the current construction of two new...
by Dorothy Poon | Dec 11, 2019 | Op-eds, Opinions
Image via Bloc Quebecois on Instagram Who exactly are the Bloc Québécois? For many British Columbians, this party may seem like little more than a mythological entity whose presence in Canadian politics is only occasionally touched on by CBC news reports and election...
by Dorothy Poon | Dec 4, 2019 | Op-eds, Opinions
Graphic by Nat Inez Milk isn’t what the cool kids are drinking these days. The downward spiral of dairy product consumption has been increasingly apparent on store shelves and kitchen counters in recent years. In the United States alone, the Dairy Farmers of America...
by Dorothy Poon | Oct 23, 2019 | Op-eds, Opinions
Chances are that by now you’ve probably heard of the environmental issues that plastic straws pose. The media frenzy around this once-innocuous product first began nearly two years ago, with a large cluster of articles from major publications such as the New York...
by Dorothy Poon | Apr 10, 2019 | Op-eds, Opinions
Being rich doesn’t make you a better person, and being poor doesn’t make you a worse one Photo accessed via Pixabay. Subtle undercurrents of North American society tell us there’s an association between being poor and a lack of personal will. It’s the inability, for...