For those of you not under the comfortable culinary wing of a cafeteria or your parents, cooking can be a time-consuming, demanding task for the average university student – and a deceptively superfluous one, as well. You might be surprised how efficient and economical healthy cooking can become (it is also a valid break from schoolwork!). If you’re noticing that your wallet’s getting thinner while you balloon, it’s time to try something new.
Read moreThe Harlem Shake: the latest Internet craze
Students from Stony Brook University in New York participating in their own versionof The Harlem Shake. (max_wei / Flickr)
The “Harlem Shake” has become the latest dance craze blowing up on the internet, but it is not without controversy.
Read moreWhy Louis Riel Day matters to you
You probably know that in most every month, there is a government holiday – a day where businesses are closed, employees who do work get paid more, and school is canceled. On the whole, few Canadians care about the event beyond the benefits to which it entitles them. February 18th, the third Monday of the month, is one such holiday.
Read moreValentine’s: you, too, can be sugary-sweet
Is your pulse racing? Is your vision blurred? Have you lost all desire to see anything but that one special person? Well, you should definitely go see someone. And review those restraining orders, boys and girls!In related news, it’s Valentine’s Day. If you haven’t noticed, this is perhaps the holiday that can cause a lot of controversy – even more than the rest! Do you love it because you’re finally with someone?
Read moreWhat you can do on Valentine’s Day
Hello, everyone! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I’m not talking about Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, or even Halloween: I’m talking about Valentine’s Day – the most amazing, wonderful, magical, stupendous, fabulous, colourful, romantic day of the year. The day of flowers, candy, chocolate, candles, surprises, and pink! There is just so much that this wonderful holiday can offer you!
Read more7 Ages Productions presents ‘Paper Wheat’ and ‘Rinse the Blood Off My Toga’
Without taking a breath after The Producers, 7 Ages Productions (in conjunction with the Daly House Museum) is at it again. On Saturday, February 9th, Paper Wheat and Rinse the Blood Off My Toga will hit the stage at the Lorne Watson Recital Hall in the BU School of Music building at 8:00 pm.
Read moreHockey is back – not everyone is smiling
Not long ago, the word “hockey” managed to either curdle blood, or trigger blank looks of incomprehension. Now it’s back, and once again becoming every other word the common Canadian mutters, and the only blood it seems to curdle is mine. If you’ve not heard, the stick-prodding, skull-cracking, figure-skating dudes who play our second national sport have finally worked out a better contract with the people who own their teams.
Read moreOpen access to academic publications, possibility or pipe dream?
The suicide of social justice activist and programming prodigy Aaron Swartz has brought forward once again the debate over the morality of online file sharing. Mr. Swartz was to face thirty-five years of imprisonment and a million-dollar fine for downloading four million academic articles from the online database JSTOR: a charge likened to that of borrowing too many books from the library
Read moreA glimpse into the 2013 Lieutenant Governor’s Winter Festival
The Ukrainian Pavilion, located in the Ukrainian Reading Association Hall on Assiniboine Avenue, entertained guests with traditional song, dance, drink and mouth-watering dishes throughout the course of Brandon’s Lieutenant Governor’s Winter Festival, and on the final night, the building was filled with the lively music late into the night.
Read more‘Community’ returns to NBC
The wait is finally over for Community die-hards as the much anticipated fourth season of the NBC comedy will air on Thursday at 7:00 pm.
Read moreJust what does “Idle No More” mean to us?
The ceremony room in the Health Studies Building was far from ‘idle’ this past week. Infused with a genuine sense of community spirit and cultural camaraderie, the room was transformed into a warm and welcoming ‘sharing circle’ and round dance.
Read moreJustin Trudeau and the cynicism of Canadian Youth
On Thursday January 31st, Justin Trudeau stopped by Brandon University to promote his bid for leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada and to meet potential supporters. Manitoba does not have a strong base of Liberal supporters; of the 57 ridings represented in our provincial government, a Liberal holds only one of those seats.
Read morePrint Journalism is Changing, Not Dying
Print journalism? Not for me – or so I thought.
While I have had ambitions of becoming a journalist for a long time, I never really gave much thought to print. I thought it was a dying medium.
Read moreReview: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
A book hangover, for those who may be unaware, is the inability to start a new book because you are still living in the last book’s world. This phenomenon happens often to book lovers, and I recently had the joy of re-experiencing this wondrous and annoying feeling again. The cause of my two-week-long book hangover? Seraphina by Rachel Hartman.
Read moreThe Producers: Absolutely Hilarious
From January 24th to 27th, Brandon’s 7 Ages Productions brought to life the hilarious, and arguably offensive comedy, The Producers. Originally a 1968 film, The Producers was brilliantly adapted into a play by Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, and Spaceballs) and Thomas Meehan (Annie and Hairspray), hitting Broadway with Nathan Lane (MouseHunt and voice roles in The Lion King) and Matthew Broderick (Farris Beuler’s Day Off) taking the reins as money-hungry Max Bialystock and the mewling, incompetent Leo Bloom.
Read moreCD Review: Don’t Swimmin’
If one were to listen to this unique treasure as a single song, the storyline would go something like this: the protagonist and his friends visit hell, and a bar, to save their lady friends. After meeting and conversing with Satan for a while, the prince of demons convinces his guests to join him in the dining room where the head of the waiter is served.
Read moreI’m calling bulls#!t, and so should you
I suffer from depression. There, I said it. You know why I said it first? Because now you know someone who suffers from depression. You don’t have to read the rest of this article if you don’t want to, because I’m going to talk about mental illness and whom it affects—but if I had started this article with a statistic about how many people suffer from mental illnesses in Canada, I would be willing to bet that quite a lot of you would have skipped to the next headline.
Read moreReview: Ye’s Buffet
Move over, Kim Lung and Wah Lee: there’s a hot new destination for Asian food in town! Disappointingly not actually called “Yes” (as in: “Is that a new restaurant in Brandon that I see?” “YES!”), Ye’s Buffet has very recently started calling 18th Street home.
Read moreThe Best of 2012 in Entertainment
It’s 2013, and the Mayan apocalypse didn’t happen, so we are going to have to think about other things than the world ending as we look back on 2012. Why not entertainment? 2012 saw a number of highly anticipated projects come to fruition. We were introduced to some great new creations and we said goodbye to some of the biggest and best commodities in history.
Read moreStructual Inequality Threatens All Canadians
Structural inequality threatens to erode the societal fabric that binds together Canada’s social democracy. Fundamental Canadian values of fairness, cooperation, compassion and egalitarianism have been swept aside and forgotten by Canada’s public leaders. The philosophy of neoliberalism and its central tenants of competition, individualism, deregulation, and wealth accumulation are transforming the socio-cultural landscape of Canada.
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