“‘Fast and Furious!’ You are a famous clan leader—take command and conquer, defeat your rivals in duels. ‘Heart pounding Action.’” The Kickstarter reads when you first arrive at its webpage. The opening models a cliché blockbuster movie trailer: “Will it be you who will conquer,” a Japanese drum-roll is heard, […]

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was expelled from his positions as both prime minister and head of the Australian Liberal Party. In a Sept. 14 leadership ballot, Malcolm Turnbull defeated Abbott with 54 votes as opposed to Abbott’s 44. The Australian political system is similar to Canada’s, where the prime […]

Google and Twitter have announced plans to introduce a new “instant article” format to their sites this fall. This format will allow users to pull up stories from within an app without having to navigate to an external browser or wait for content to load. The purpose of this program, […]

Google hires ex-Hyundai America CEO for self-driving car project American software giant Google announced that John Krafcik, 53, has been hired as the new CEO for its self-driving car project on Sept. 14, 2015. Krafick’s previously worked at Ford, and also served as president and CEO of Hyundai’s American division. […]

The Federal Court of Appeal ruled against the immigration minister’s attempts to ban the Niqab and other face-covers while taking the citizenship oath, on Sept. 15, 2015. The issue of banning the niqab began when Zunera Ishaq, a woman born in Pakistan, who has been a Canadian citizen since 2008, […]

On the heels of the discovery that there is liquid water spraying from the moon’s south pole, NASA’s Cassini probe detected a global ocean under the icy surface of Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn, on Sept. 15, 2015. The probe did not land on the moon, but has […]

What are study drugs? In spite of what anyone might have to say about the subject, there simply is never enough time. Not enough time for work. Not enough time for family. Not enough time for love. There certainly is never enough time to binge watch every episode of The […]

On this day with SHAC, congress passed The Judiciary Act of 1789.  The president at the time, President George Washington, established the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices, who were to serve on the court until death or retirement. That day, John […]

As the upcoming Oct. 19 federal election looms closer, Guelph students Tyler Valiquette and Yvonne Su aim to change the perception that students are apathetic towards politics. In 2011, Su organized the first vote mob event on the University of Guelph campus in an effort to combat this stereotype. “Flash […]

Crane topples in Mecca, kills 107 Strong winds caused a crane to topple in the holy city of Mecca on Friday, Sept. 11. Officials reported that a thunderstorm caused extremely high winds to roar through the holiest site in Islam, resulting in the death of 107 pilgrims and injuring approximately […]