MONTREAL (CUP) — It’s probably fair to say that most of us haven’t travelled around the world, but your closet has. While you’ll surely find blouses from China, shoes from Brazil, coats from the Philippines, scarves from India and t-shirts from El Salvador, you’ll be hard-pressed to find something made here. In an era filled… Read more »
MONTREAL (CUP)– Before Max Stern fled Germany for being Jewish in 1937, over 250 works of art belonging to his father’s art gallery in Dusseldorf, the Julius Stern Art Gallery, were confiscated or sold by force by the Gestapo. When Stern immigrated to Montreal after leaving Britain for being German, he re-established himself as a… Read more »
TORONTO (CUP) — University of Ottawa law professor and 2006 Hart House Lecturer Michael Geist wants U of T students to get excited about copyright law-and not just so that they know their rights when downloading music, photocopying textbooks, or burning DVDs. Young people have embraced the internet and are among the new creators-and, importantly,… Read more »
TORONTO (CUP) — “I wanted to do something good for the environment, but as an engineer, I am also concerned with producing economically viable processes,” says chemical engineering Professor Charles Jia, about his goal of utilizing “coke,” a waste product of Alberta’s tar sands, to mitigate environmental pollution. Though Canada’s estimated oil reserves are second… Read more »
Completing the Clampdown: A News Release From Lionel T. Undershaft, III, President of the Canadian Independent Chamber of Commerce and Industry (a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Crunk Genetics and Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) As I was telling Bill Gates, George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Pope Benedict XVI and the reanimated corpse of Senator Joseph McCarthy over lunch… Read more »
I was about 16 years of age, I recall, when my mother walked into the living room where the rest of the family was watching television, threw a dishtowel over a chair, and said with great restraint, “I would like you all to know that I quit. From here on in, you will all be… Read more »
The father of a dear friend of mine passed away last week. Although I didn’t know him myself, I could feel my friend’s pain as she struggled to cope with the loss of this man who, even throughout her adult life, played such an important part in shaping who she was and how she looked… Read more »
Plagiarism is a word that incites feelings of indignation, shame, and dishonor. The thought that a student would steal another’s ideas or work is reprehensible. It is unethical and deserves punishment. In all fairness to students who have worked for their grades, those students who have claimed another’s work as their own should not be… Read more »
While hiking the rocky shorelines of coastal British Columbia this February, I was struck with an acute sense of curiosity about a world of organisms about which I, and many inland dwellers, know so little. I am referring to the seaweeds. Rarely mentioned in general botanical literature, this group of marine algae is in fact… Read more »
VICTORIA (CUP) — Bob Rae, a potential contender for the Liberal leadership, shared his views on education at a public lecture at the University of Victoria March 28. Rae, a former NDP premier of Ontario, called for a “national vision” in education. “Education and the learning agenda has to become a much bigger part of… Read more »