Biodiversity Institute of Ontario wins national award funding The University of Guelph’s Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) was awarded a significant grant from Innovation Canada on Jan. 23, 2015. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) awarded BIO with a $2.15 million grant for their research on DNA Barcoding. Minister of […]

Israeli soldiers killed and wounded along side Spanish peace-keeper Two Israeli soldiers were killed, and several were wounded in a Hezbollah missile-attack on Thursday, Jan. 28. The strike hit an Israeli military-vehicle near the Lebanese and Syrian border, in an area known as the Golan Heights. A Spanish soldier serving […]

Better to overreact or under prepare? The US National Weather Service (NWS) admitted last week that its forecast was wrong on the “potentially historic blizzard” which was supposed to hit New York City. Downgraded to a simple “winter storm,” New Yorkers looked outside expecting a crippling three feet of snow, […]

John Baird resigns as foreign affairs minister Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird resigned from the Harper cabinet in the House of Commons (HOC) on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. Sources from within the government say that Baird revealed to his staff that he will not seek re-election in the upcoming vote. […]

Looking at the history of plane disappearances On Thursday, Jan. 29, the Malaysian government announced the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 327, which went missing in March, to be an accident. Australia, China, and Malaysia are continuing the search for evidence, but all passengers of the flight are presumed […]

Protecting data from external threats Aug. 31, 2014 marked the beginning of one of the biggest internet hacking scandals in recent memory. Almost 500 private and compromising photographs of female celebrities were posted on 4chan, spreading like wildfire through Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter. The photos were reportedly obtained through a […]

HeForShe launches pilot initiative on economic inequality Four months since her UN address, actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson gave another impassioned speech on gender equality, this time in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Watson told the audience of the overwhelming response and support received for […]

A harder task than originally thought When the topic of living arrangements for university was brought up in high school, the majority of us had the same naive answer. We were going to live in residence first year, make the best friends ever, then find a beautiful house close to […]

The positive impact of social media on fundraising campaigns Whether we like it or not, we live in a digital age where it seems like everything happens on a computer and every day of the week has an associated hashtag. For people of all ages, social media is an ever-present […]

Date: February 5th, 1997 On this day with SHAC, multiple Swiss banks were presented with a lawsuit stemming from the withholding of funds deposited by victims of Nazi persecution before and during the Second World War.  In 1995, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) began negotiations on behalf of various Jewish organizations with Swiss […]