Show me the Money: My life on a student budgetI hope that this column has so far been helpful to readers and that it’s got you to start thinking about your financial health differently. This time around, I thought I’d share a bit about my life as a student, from a financial perspective, of course. I’m an international student, and I spent about four […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: The Batman almost-perfect thrill-rideThe Batman (2022) 3.5/4 Back in January, I said that Matt Reeves’ The Batman was the number-one movie for students to look out for this year. Today, I’m happy to report that Reeves delivers exactly what fans wanted and much more from this riveting film. One of the main things that had me super excited […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: Female leadership is a choice to makeActively deciding on what you stand for can change the future. Feminists have to make that decision with every move they make. Maybe you like the idea of creating gender equality change but don’t know how. Change will never come easy, so we need to take baby steps toward it. I choose to pick female […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: Ambulance nonsensical, nauseatingAmbulance (2022) 1/4 I’ve never been a fan of Michel Bay’s work but I went to see his newest movie, Ambulance, with a open mind, hoping that this may just be one of his better films. Unfortunately, my hopefulness was short lived. This movie—which is based on a Danish movie from 2005—is everything that I […] Continue Reading |
Leaving the Cave: Hopeful in HighlandsSince life is now becoming somewhat regular again—we’re not always wearing our masks, we can gather in larger groups—I’m curious as to how we all, as a student body, survived the past two years. I mean, what did the whole, very surreal, experience do to our fragile minds? What effect did isolation have on us, […] Continue Reading |
Show Me the Money: Investing in foreign marketsIn our globalized world, we can easily buy products from all over the planet. In fact, it may be hard to find products that do not contain materials from multiple countries. Since we consume globally, should we also think about investing globally? Here in Canada, we can easily invest in Canadian and US markets, but […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: Find your opinion, peopleLet’s talk a bit about opinion building and finding a voice. After I conducted the interviews for a recent Speak Up about women’s rights (see our March 23, 2022 issue) I realized that most people actually don’t have any opinion about women’s rights. This really made me think, though: with all the steps forward in […] Continue Reading |
Show Me the Money: Summer reading recommendationsI’m sure we’re all looking forward to the summer break and warmer days. One of my favourite things to do on a nice sunny day is to sit outside with a book and a coffee, so in this column, I’ll be recommending a few books for your summer reading list. First up is The Psychology […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: Nightmare Alley fantastic noirNightmare Alley (2021) 3.5/4 One my favourite film genres is old film noir. I really get a kick out of watching classic noir movies, such as the John Huston classic The Maltese Falcon or Roman Polanski’s thought-provoking Chinatown. Now, Oscar-wining director Guillermo Del Toro has crafted Nightmare Alley, a movie that pays tribute to the […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: We don’t talk about intimate partner violenceWe like to think that bad things don’t happen where we live, and we like to think that bad things don’t happen to the people we know. As far as we’re concerned, those things only happen to random people in random parts of the country, or in other countries altogether. This is, of course, a […] Continue Reading |
