Editorial: Food waste for thought

by | Jan 17, 2013 | Opinions

It’s something your parents probably told you during your childhood. You didn’t finish your food — don’t you know children are starving in Africa? According to the World Food Programme, a branch of the United Nations, 870 million people worldwide do not have enough to...

The rest of Canada can’t afford to be idle

by | Jan 14, 2013 | Opinions

By now, you’ve definitely heard of the Idle No More movement: an Indigenous-led wave of protest and demonstration in support of treaty rights and against the Conservatives’ Bill C-45. With support now growing internationally and Attawapiskat First Nation’s Chief...

Editorial: Looking back and ahead

by | Dec 13, 2012 | Opinions

This year in the Martlet, we’ve talked everything from Chairman Harper to ferry follies, oil spills to Comic-Con ills. Now the new year is rolling on in, and it’s time for us all to look back on some of the most interesting players in 2012 and figure out what they...

Editorial: War on the War on Men

by | Dec 6, 2012 | Opinions

If your ears have been tuned to the web at all these last few months, you’ve heard plenty of invective about male and female gender roles. Writer Hanna Rosin’s Atlantic magazine article “The End of Men,” along with her TED talk and book release, have prompted a range...