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<p>It would seem that no other issue has turned the country’s interest towards Parliament Hill of late as much as Bill C­-51 (save, of course, what bold tie choices Peter MacKay may make this month). As (nominal) democracies so often do, Parliament and the flabby, middle­-aged men who sometimes frequent it (to whom I shall [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I took my girlfriend to American Sniper because I had to write a dumb review for class. She wanted to go to the Imitation Game, but I was late picking her up so I bought tickets to American Sniper without knowing much about it before going in. There’s a lot of gunfire. And as the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Many assumed that trivia could never survive in the information age. What&#8217;s the point of having all that useless knowledge when everything you could ever want is a Google search away? But despite our information overload, our love for competition over obscure facts remains strong. Leading the charge is the hottest new mobile app: Trivia [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This summer, I woke up to the banging of hammers and the scream of a table saw. Both lots beside our cottage began renovations to install steam showers, balconies and hot tubs in their “cabins.” Our neighbours are dentists and accountants who drive an hour from Regina over gravel roads in their brand new Audis. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pokeshaw is so small most people drive through it without even knowing they’ve been there. It’s mostly fields, trees and long dirt roads. Many of the houses in the village are kilometres apart, and it takes an hour to get to the nearest school by bus. I ended up in Pokeshaw after my parents separated. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>So, you guys have finally found out about Larry’s Gulch. Everyone is getting in such a fuss that a senior editor of the Times &amp; Transcript, Murray Guy, went up there with NB Liquor execs, the old premier and the Soggy Bottom Boys, but I don’t see the problem. I’ve been going there for years. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas professor Dr. Alexandra Bain is on the frontier of her field with her Women and Religion course. Each student of the class is following a woman living in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on social media. Every student has signed a strict research ethics agreement not to contact the people [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Until I was 10 years old I lived in a mini-home too small to call quaint, in a village where it seemed like everyone knows everyone. Although the inside may have been limiting, the outside was free and beautiful: a forest behind our backyard. I’d spend many days losing myself in the trees towering above, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When the 18th century radical French critic and journalist Jean­-Paul Marat was found dead in his bathtub, revolutionary Paris knew that it had lost a friend. His assassination came at a time when many of the revolution’s friends were dropping like flies due to factional infighting and the lethal application of that zealous Parisian work ethic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nathan Macdonald was four or five years old when he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. At eight years old, he was told by a councillor to give up on school. Macdonald was diagnosed with dermatomyositis at age nine. Now, he’s a third-year St. Thomas University student. “It attacks me from the inside. It [&hellip;]</p>

<p>David Carr was a trendy, sophisticated New York Times media journalist with a lot of spunk. A humdrum, rough-edged man who every aspiring student at his Dalton Camp lecture at St. Thomas University looked up to — including myself. On Thursday, Feb. 12, Carr spent most of his day working on a lengthy interview with Edward [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The 18th C. philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes that “nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.” Rousseau questioned the benefit of progress and said we should return to nature, which is pure and unblemished. And it’s that Rousseauean impulse that is motivating anti-vaxxers, said St. Thomas religious and philosophy professor Matt Dinan. “There [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tipping was once reserved for pizza delivery drivers, barbershops and servers at sit-down restaurants. But coffee shops? Canada’s etiquette guy Jay Remer said, “That’s lunacy.” A recent New York Times article spoke about gratuity creep caused by technology. With the increasing use of credit and debit and touch screens for even small purchases, tip options for cup [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The rules of social dating app Tinder are simple: Swipe right on a profile if you think they’re hot enough to hook-up with and swipe left if you would rather be a character in Oedipus. If you both swipe right, you match: a conversation is opened and the flirting begins. It’s raw, it’s unforgiving. Finally, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I was born and raised in a little place called Clark’s Corner. It’s 20 minutes outside of Minto, but it’s what everybody else calls “the middle of butt-fuck nowhere.” My house is in the woods, and it’s the most peaceful, serene piece of paradise in the entire world as far as I’m concerned. But I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Jesus called on the sinless to cast that first stone, he demonstrated that (in addition to not knowing much about how stonings typically work) he was uninitiated in the ways of social criticism. See, much like the good old­-fashioned stoning laws of Jesus’ time, modern c​ritique​ has come to adjudicate over some of our most [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University has filed a lawsuit against the fictitious news site The Manatee for libel over an article stating that St. Thomas is to be absorbed by the University of New Brunswick’s liberal arts department. STU, alleging defamation, hurt feelings and Catholic guilt, is seeking all of the Manatee’s money, which is none. Alex [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The set is over, the room is packed. Friends of friends and music-lovers party in a smoky haze. Stephen Lewis is in the middle of it all, happily strumming his guitar, fuelled by the now-empty quart beside him. He’d played to a full house in St. Andrews, NB on Friday with his good friend Bob [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It started slowly. In the beginning, it was new and exciting. You had fun together. You spent all your time together. Then, it turned into a job. All work and no play. Pleasure turned business. You hated to admit it, but the thrill was gone. You and Twitter should see other people. Michaila McGee used [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Rodger Wilkie was a child, he dropped nails into the lamp sockets of his childhood home in Windsor, Ont. The St. Thomas professor was a curious child with an empirical mind. He noticed whenever he did this there would be a blue flash and his house would go dark. Eventually, his curiosity led him to [&hellip;]</p>