Leaving the Cave: The good news of springThe first signs of spring are a wonderful thing to see after going through months of howling winds, deep snow drifts, and cars skidding around black ice. Winter is exhausting unless you truly enjoy the layering of clothes, the loss of feeling in your earlobes and fingertips, and the constant leaking from your eyes and […] Continue Reading |
Show Me the Money: Stock markets going wildIf you have money invested in the stock markets, cryptocurrencies, or just about any other financial assets, the two weeks starting on January 17 must have been terribly unsettling for you. At the time of writing this (January 25), major stock indices have lost between 8 percent to 10 percent, and some popular cryptocurrencies have […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: Don’t Look Up decent but with faultsDon’t Look Up (2021) 3/4 One of the most memorable new movies that I’ve seen recently is Adam McKay’s new political satire Don’t Look Up. This well-cast and mean-spirited smash has broke streaming records across the globe and is 2022’s most talked-about film so far. The main attribute that really makes this movie work is […] Continue Reading |
This System Is Broken: Who is being raided on the yintahHey, wouldn’t it be grand if citizens of canada could arrive together at the unanimous understanding of how our government’s declarations of reconciliation are an active contradiction? The “royal canadian mounted police” marching en masse with loaded machine guns and ravenous attack dogs into unceded traditional Indigenous territories doesn’t look like the face of reconciliation […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: Drag-culture conflictsI adore drag queens. There is nothing more fun than heading out with the girls to Friends of Dorothy or sitting down with popcorn to watch the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Drag culture is just so complex and fascinating that I can’t stay away from it. But the longer I enjoy drag shows […] Continue Reading |
Leaving the Cave: The nightmare continuesBack to school, back on campus. It does seem a bit odd when other post-secondary institutions are back to online studying, at least until Omicron stops spreading through the population faster then ever imagined. It’s very unnerving when things are beyond our control, and I can’t begin to imagine how the politicians feel, knowing they’ve […] Continue Reading |
Show me the Money: What’s in store for 20222021 was an incredible year in the financial world. We saw stock markets breaking new records, ordinary folks getting extremely rich betting on meme stocks and crypto, inflation raging high thanks to COVID, and weather-induced supply-chain disruptions, to name just a few things. What can we expect in 2022? The biggest concern on everyone’s mind […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: Spider-Man: No Way Home a swinging good timeSpider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 3.5/4 Spider-Man: No Way Home is easily the best Spider-Man movie I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing on the big screen. Throughout the course of these Jon Watts-directed movies, Tom Holland has continuously knocked it out of the park both playing a young Peter Parker and Spider-Man, and this […] Continue Reading |
This System Is Broken: Unwelcome trespassersThere’s a lot of confusion surrounding the legality of the unapproved Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline being forced through Wet’suwet’en territory. The bottom line is that in forcing this project through lands where hereditary chiefs are saying a resounding “no,” the canadian government is blatantly contradicting itself. Sure, some of the Wet’suwet’en band council are in […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: The silent story about outstanding femalesAs Black History Month is approaching, let’s talk about some really outstanding females. Back in the day it was hard for women to actually achieve something, but it was even harder if they weren’t white. Let’s have a closer look at NASA, for example. Men didn’t trust calculations by machines and considered this women’s work. […] Continue Reading |
