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You can’t be friends forever

Before I left university, one of my leaders at school asked me an excruciating question. What friendships would I continue once I left town? Naively, I replied, “All of them of course!” I wanted to continue to invest in every friend I had made in the past few years. How […]

Prostitution: beyond the label

A toddler’s excited squeal greets me as I step through the front door. Her deep brown eyes dance as she looks up at me from the living room floor, her attention momentarily taken away from the small plastic kitchen set in her chubby little hands. Walking back to the kitchen […]

Saying no to busy

I took a summer vacation in Alaska. Geographically, Alaska is basically my home province of British Columbia, but emphatically less crowded. (My cubicle is more crowded than Alaska.) It was a glorious feeling to be in a tourist hub on a peak summer weekend and still feel the unmistakable sensation of […]

Urban Outfitters sweatshirt reaches new low

Company pleads ignorance to any connection to 1970 Kent State shootings While not the bastion for sketchy manufacturing like Walmart and Nike, Urban Outfitters has found a new way to offend. For just $129, you could buy the “Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt” in light pink, with splattering of red over the university logo. […]

Real love vs. Insta love

If there’s one thing I have learned about love from Instagram, it’s that love is easy. We’ve all seen the photos. The ones where it seems like some professional iPhone photographer has followed a couple around, documenting that time they both looked awesome at a friend’s wedding or had the […]