October 16, 2007
Vol. 135, Issue 14

(Evelien Heijselaar)

Gore’s efforts aren’t Nobel enough

Although climate change as a world issue is deserving of the attention this will bring it, the inconvenient truth about this award is simple: Gore wasn’t the worthiest candidate and the award should have gone to a real advocate for change—not an environmental celebrity.

The camera loves RCMP officers

This past Canada Day a group of 20 or so young party-goers were waiting at a University of British Columbia bus stop when a police car approached the group of youths, some of whom were holding open alcohol containers. The seemingly standard interaction soon became headline-worthy as the cops posed for photos with several young women in suggestive photos recently sent to the school’s newspaper, The Ubyssey.

What would Don Rogers do?

This past Saturday night, I had the pleasure of spending a few hours amongst the shouting drunkards, the thrown ’bows, and the anonymous, groping fingers that make up so much of the Aberdeen crowd. Surrounded by approximately 250 Kingston, Toronto and OPP police officers, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people openly taunted the law by drinking alcohol in public or smoking weed. And yet the general feeling then, and in much of the coverage that followed, was that something was missing.

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