For years, conservative writers have been complaining about what they call “judicial activism”. Writers like Ted Morton, Rainier Knopff and Robert Martin sharply criticize judges whose rulings, based the Charter of Rights, make social policy that elected politicians are...
Over the past few weeks the world has been rabidly frothing at the mouth over the most intensely covered news story of the year. Oscar Pistorius has been charged with the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after she was shot dead in their home on Valentine’s Day. To the...
On an average day, the majority of us who use the internet do not think about how much it has changed the world. The lawlessness of the Internet is something we all seem to feel is a right, not a privilege; the Internet is not a society, but a virtual playground where there...
“The other side obtained more votes and that's democracy.”– Henrique Capriles Those were some of the first words out of the mouth of Henrique Capriles after he lost the Venezuelan presidential election to Hugo Chavez last October. When there is an election and there are...
All told, the earth is home to some seven billion people, and the United Nations has predicted that number to grow to 8.9 billion by 2050; the same report estimates that our planet could be home to more than 36 billion human beings by the year 2300. Humanity's rapid growth and...
In the entirety of its complexity, the Middle East finds itself at the centre of the world’s attention. It is discouraging to see the conversation surrounding the topic here on campus become reduced to such a meaningless perpetuation of falsities, simply stemming from a lack...
On Wednesday, November 21st 2012, the Church of England voted against a measure that would have allowed women to become bishops in the General Synod. It’s a pretty bitter pill to swallow for chess fans like me, who don’t care who their bishops are so long as they move...
The use of this expression as always been derisive, meant to cheapen the way power is maintained. If people eat and are entertained, they do not think about their problems and rulers are left alone. But bread and games – let me rephrase that – beer and game, is now a...
When most people see a star-spangled banner, they immediately worry about an American sponsored coup d’état. Or at least they do in oil-producing parts of the world. However, on Tuesday evening it was all fine and dandy to have the stars and stripes hoisted upon a mast,...
The other day, I was sitting around at three o'clock in the morning, scanning the five free cable channels that I have. I stumbled across a show about the Human Genome Project, and I immediately recalled having heard about this initiative in high school. As far as I...
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