The month of October bears a special significance to those special (perhaps a little twisted) few who nurse festering soft-spots for horror movies. October is the only socially acceptable time of year when horror-aficionados can come out of the haunted woodwork and revel in 31 days of ghosts, ghouls, and […]
Author: Sierra Paquette-Struger
Spooktacular campus ghostwalk
Greg Taylor has been running ghost-walks, both on campus and downtown, for over a decade. A history graduate from the University of Ottawa, he swears his stories are true-stories, not told by a friend of a friend of his, but rather told by history itself. For just ten dollars – […]
Doctors Without Borders hospital bombing
A Medecins Sans Frontières–operated hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan was hit several times by air strikes on Oct. 3, 2015, leaving at least 22 people dead. Among the 22 dead are staff and several children—a total of 37 others were also injured. U.S. forces were carrying out air strikes at the […]
John F. Kennedy: Making a man from the legend
Back in ancient Rome, certain emperors—those who had done well by the people, or those who had won wars, or those who had thrown the best parties—were deified either during their lifetime or upon their death. These emperors belonged to an “imperial cult” of worship, which can be described as […]
Conflict incites first withdrawal from “Doomsday Vault”
Scientists in the Middle East have requested some 116,000 samples from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, an international safeguard for the world’s food supply against global catastrophe, on Sept. 23, 2015. The researchers are requesting drought-resistant crop seeds: wheat, barley, and a variety of grasses. The request was made by […]
Texan teenager arrested on false suspicion
The Internet has been reeling since news leaked that 14-year-old Muslim inventor, Ahmed Mohamed, was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. Ahmed Mohamed probably awoke the morning of Sept. 9 with excitement. He probably woke up with a thrill of pride. A tech savant, he had successfully built […]
Dalhousie’s Failed Rape-culture Debacle
13 misogynistic male students receive minimum punishment Something is rotten in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Something is rotten in all of academia. Just nine months after 17-year-old Halifax-native Rehtaeh Parsons’ suicide following a traumatic rape, Dalhousie University finds itself at the centre of a nationally-involved debate about on-campus rape-culture. On Dec […]
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