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Mexico is a country on Minister Jason Kenney ’s controversial safe list. Mexican refugee claimant Veronica Castro had been murdered after returning to her native

This summer, Manga comics have become my latest guilty pleasure. There’s so much more to manga than wide-eyed girls in sailor suits and indestructible space

My best friend Graham and his brother Gord owned a cool wooden fort near their home in rural Alberta beside a treed slough with a

The May-July, 2012 public consultation process undertaken by BC’s Ministry of Health is a positive response to the reports of BC’s Ombudsperson on Seniors in

I am extremely thankful for my university degree – an experience which has improved my life in many ways. My critical thinking abilities continue to

I was heartbroken after hearing about the recent oil spill in Alberta on the Red Deer River near Sundre, which destroyed Gord Johnson’s farm. Last

Johann Hari’s book, God Save the Queen?  is a pompous, mean-spirited, but mostly entertaining glance at the British monarchy and how the institution has negatively

When Vancouver hosted the Winter Olympics, there seemed to be little opposition to the international event, but during the winter of 2010, I ran into

Many voices are calling for the legalization of Marijuana in Canada and nowhere more vigorously than in Vancouver. Former law-enforcement officials, libertarians, and various progressive

Amongst the claims of this generation’s apparent political apathy it is refreshing to see young people getting involved in politics; or such would be the

Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 video and campaign quickly received an unprecedented surge of attention after the video’s release on March 5, 2012, attracting 86 million

Marijuana legalization remains a hot-button topic on the worldwide forum, but especially in British Columbia where potent BC Bud is a high-earning agricultural product for