Why you should be glad to be cool and going back to school Megan Orr, Opinions Editor // Illustration by Natalie Heaman Like so many hazy, rose-coloured memories from childhood…
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Is Vancouver Overtaxed?
Stacking up the proposed Mobility Pricing and Provincial Surtax ANDREW YANG // CONTRIBUTOR There are two things that we are all guaranteed, “death and taxes,” as Benjamin Franklin would have…
Opinions: Vancouver provides short-term solutions to long-term problems
Temporary Refuge ANNALISSE CROSSWELL // CONTRIBUTOR Vancouver is now the first city to offer a temporary refuge to families during the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and…
Opinions: An Armed Lobby
Allowing organizations to influence politics with behind-closed-doors lobbying needs to stop JUSTIN SCOTT // MANAGING EDITOR With the debate around the issue of arming teachers still roaring in America, it’s…
Opinions: The difference in dignity and success of panhandlers is a digital line
Pan you handle it? RACHEL D’SA // ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR I was introduced to the YouTube subscription box when I was just about to enter high school. Bright-eyed and pimple-faced,…
Opinions: China’s social credit policy terrifying resembles Black Mirror’s bleak future
When the stuff of dystopian nightmares become real ANNALISSE CRESSWELL // CONTRIBUTOR China is planning to implement a policy rivalling those of dystopian novels – one that will track people’s…
Opinions: National Geographic’s acknowledgement of its racist past is an important first step
Better Late Than Never National Geographic’s acknowledgement of its racist past is an important first step Tia Kutschera Fox / Opinions Editor With files from Ana Frazão The April issue…
Students across the US walk out to protest the state of the country’s gun laws
The kids are all fight Students across the US walk out to protest the state of the country’s gun laws Laura Melczer / contributor Americans need to have an honest…
Opinions: Bring back the handkerchief
Bring back the handkerchief Tissues are an issue Nivedan Kaushal / contributor Sneezing. It happens at the worst times – polluting the upper lip with thick, slimy snot. Ugh. Most…