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Interurban gets equalized: There’s lots of talk these days about how Interurban is no longer a male-dominated campus, with plenty more females taking courses on that campus. But that’s exactly what we were talking about in our January 23, 1995 issue as well: the main news story detailed some changes going down at the campus, […]

CES 2016 recently went down; over the years the electronics event has become one of the biggest for tech companies to showcase their upcoming products. Like last year, many of them were still prototypes, and many of them were disappointments. Here are some lowlights of the show: Next-gen TVs are only as good as the […]

It was a while ago now, but my New Year’s Eve was a fun night of drinking games and dancing. I happily woke up late the next day with only a minor fuzziness in my head. The first thing on my mind was the fact that I needed food, and since I wasn’t around for […]

Have you ever wondered why women are perceived as excellent caregivers? We’re led to believe that our universal healthcare system adequately compensates them, but in reality a majority of the care women provide is unpaid, and in extreme situations they have given up careers to care for ailing spouses or loved ones. For patients with […]

2014 was a year like no other for the tech industry. It was the year of Android and smarter technologies. From phones to wearable, we saw the evolution of tech devices that aimed to make the consumer’s life easier. Tech companies also tried to implement health-awareness technologies in their devices, which was successful in many […]

Over the holidays, I had a friend visiting from out of town. I decided to take him to West Coast Waffles, one of my favourite places to eat, for lunch. He wasn’t overly enthusiastic about having waffles for lunch, but he trusted me enough to go along with the experience. I am a waffle lover; […]

Interurban issues: Our January 9, 1995 issue had no shortage of news about happenings going on over at the Interurban campus. A new student lounge was announced, safety training for students was unveiled, and, in a move that is actually pretty fancy for 1995, touch-screen computer kiosks with Interurban info were being installed at that […]

Don’t call me a cougar. We don’t need another word to shame women. According to sex columnist Valerie Gibson, the term “cougar” originated in Vancouver, BC to describe older woman who go to bars looking for younger men. I’m a woman in my thirties, and I’m frequently mistaken for being younger; young people often approach […]

Those who are homeless are 50 percent more likely to die because of accidental causes than the rest of us. There is no judgment here, just a hard fact. Homelessness and mental illness are often concurrent conditions, meaning one can bring on the other. Last year alone, Vancouver police apprehended close to 3,000 people under […]