Students keep the fires burning
Greg Beneteau
Make no mistake – the Royal City has heart.
From being declared “Canada’s most caring city” by Maclean’s Magazine, to serving as an incubator for activism of all stripes, Guelph has a reputation for stirring the pot that puts larger urban centres to shame.
But how does this seemingly quiet town of [...]

Whose side are you on, Denise?
 by Greg Beneteau
More than two months after University of Guelph undergraduates voted overwhelmingly in favour of leaving the Canadian Federation of Students, we remain unable to leave the organization. Like a fly trapped in a spider’s web, the more the Central Student Association struggles to remove itself from Canada’s “united [...]

Support for a new course
by Lindsay Messerschmidt and Onnela Pukk
Do you pay attention to where your food comes from? How many carbon emissions were released into the air to get that California apple to you? Have you ever thought about how your food purchases might affect your local economy, the environment or your health? Students [...]

Israel: How to lose friends and alienate people
Greg Beneteau
When an international flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists embarked from Cyrprus on route to the Gaza strip, Israel vowed to enforce the naval blockade it has erected around the Palestinian territory since Hamas came to power there in 2007.
In the end, Israel succeeded in keeping the [...]

Derek Alton
Today’s world is filled with so many challenges and problems.  In 2008 the world was rocked by the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930’s and now in the Gulf of Mexico arguably the worst human created environmental disaster in history is underway.  There are also issues of poverty and starvation and [...]

Greg Shupak
If you are interested in social justice you should attend the protests that will take place in Toronto during the G20 Summit from June 25 to June 27 and in the days leading up to the arrival of twenty of the world’s “leaders.” Though I will present three reasons why you ought to be [...]

Other nations deprived of the means to decide
Katie Duncan
The state of affairs in this country hangs on a hinge of fine balance. It sways back and forth with the same arguments trying to adjust to a new equilibrium. Should we allow same-sex marriage? Do we send troops overseas? Can we fund international abortions?
That hinge swung [...]