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Why must the women’s basketball team play warm-up for the men?
If you ask me, the best part of a women’s basketball game at UVic is when it finishes. But my reasoning for that over-simplistic and intentionally facetious statement is most…Hey #yyj, hope you like the snow! Signed, global warming xx
Welcome back, winter! I know most of you West Coasters aren’t familiar with water in its crystallized form (oh my sweet, summer children) but as for the rest of the…Safe injection sites are necessary for saving lives
This article originally appeared in The Other Press, Douglas College’s student newspaper, on Dec. 7. NEW WESTMINSTER—Vancouver is home to the first legal supervised injection site in North America. At…Canada’s national bird: why the whisky jack?!
When I first heard that the whisky jack, or grey jay, had been named Canada’s national bird by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, I was disappointed, confused, and honestly, a…Two sides to the ongoing battle for Trinity Western’s law school
There has been a fierce debate over whether Trinity Western University (TWU), a private Christian university based in Langley, B.C., should open a law school. The B.C. Law Society believes…Free tuition is not the ideal solution to student woes
The #allnoutnov2 National Student Day of Action, a reactionary movement to ever-climbing tuition, sought foremost to push back against the notion that, as the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) puts…Don’t whitewash tradition: Keep the red poppy
A red poppy can lay dormant for 80 years beneath the soil until they receive enough light to grow. For this reason, the red poppy has been a major symbol…Restrictions on private health care in Canada are unconstitutional
18.3 weeks. That was the median wait time in Canada between getting a referral from a general practitioner to receiving the treatment in 2015, according to the Fraser Institute. Yet,…Our Digital Print Issue
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