Alden Wallace Mackay // Contributor Summer was coming to a close, and so was my road trip. I’d driven from Vancouver to Halifax—as far east as I could afford—and now…
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Hands.
Alden Wallace Mackay // Contributor You always loved to fidget with your hands grinding a thumb into your palm turning one over for inspection searching amongst the newfound lines as if…
Coast to Coast: Grief along the St. Lawrence
Alden Wallace Mackay // Contributor In July, I was living on a strawberry farm in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, where I’d signed up for a French language program. Actually, I didn’t have…
Coast to Coast: An Ontarian Introduction to Prayer
Alden Wallace Mackay // Contributor The land between the Rockies and Ontario is like one vast yellow sea, so flat on the horizon you can see the sky falling with…
Coast to Coast: Prejudice in the Flatlands
Alden Wallace Mackay // Columnist Karla Monterrosa // Illustrator Like probably a lot of other people my age, I was looking for something to believe in. I think this is…
Shining a Light on Women in Sport
Athletes from the CapU Blues teams speak about recognition in women’s sports Alden Mackay // Contributor It’s no secret that women in sports receive less recognition than their male counterparts….
What’s In My Bag: Charlotte
Charlotte, 23 Photos and text by Alden Mackay Charlotte King, a second-year liberal studies student at Cap, flaunts her cloth tote bag adorned with a fingerbangin’ pin near the shoulder…
Fifteen Confirmed Cases of Measles in Greater Vancouver Area
Health care professionals continue to monitor the virus’ presence in the Lower Mainland Alden Mackay, Contributor Vancouver Coastal Health declared on Friday, Feb. 15 an outbreak of measles, the largest in…