DATES FOR THE DESPERATE?
January 26, 2005
The organized dating circuit was once perceived as a hotbed for geeks and loners. Based on that description, Anthony Vaccaro thought he'd give it a try.
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LATITUDE ADJUSTMENT
November 24, 2004
The Northwest Territories is headed for provincehood. Josh Swan reveals some surprising experiences you could have in a city North of 60.
FIVE DAYS OF DIWALI
November 17, 2004
The Diwali festivities came to a close on Sunday night and the Hindu holiday season is officially over.
OUR STRUGGLE TO FIND PEACE
October 20, 2004
In light of recent hate crimes on campus, the World Religions Conference addressed the need for tolerance.
The thin line of tolerance
April 7, 2004
At 1 p.m. on Mar. 23, 2004, students from York University’s pro-Palestinian group, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, set up a mock West Bank checkpoint inside York’s Vari Hall. Some were dressed as Israeli soldiers emblazoned with the slogan “born to kill” on their backs, while others were garbed as Arab women. The students […]
Students marking students
April 7, 2004
Last semester, Orest Werbowy went to class, studied, and took tests like any third-year student. He did well; some of his classmates did too. He should know – he marked their assignments. Werbowy, a third-year ITM student, was hired by professor Debra Sels as a teaching assistant for her third-year ITM course. He says […]
Kung Fu Royal-ty
March 24, 2004
By Matt Kwong FedEx carriers working at Boston’s Logan International Airport in 1996 may have handled an oversized cardboard box and wondered, perhaps out of shippers’ tedium, what was inside. Upon sliding into the cargo compartment, the double-walled box rattled like any other load, but its contents were tucked away safely in Styrofoam peanuts. […]
Remembering a home she barely knew
March 17, 2004
By Gina Puzzuoli With a gentle tinkling of chimes, the door to the Tibet Shoppe on Queen Street West swings open. The smell of sweet incense fills the air as soft tendrils of smoke snake and arc their way to the ceiling. Vibrant reds, blues, greens and yellows of raw silk shirts are hung amongst […]
Painted faces, renewed hope
March 10, 2004
By Rachel Hahn A short and burly black woman wearing a bright orange head scarf and a matching dress applies calamine lotion to my face. I don’t have a rash. She’s using the lotion to create circles and dots, similar to the ones on her own face, so that everyone will know I am celebrating […]
No dreams of justice
March 10, 2004
By Robyn Doolittle It’s 4 a.m. and Richmond Bugyet-Twum is wide-awake. For the past year, he hasn’t been able to sleep past this hour — the time the police called to say his son Jerry had been shot and killed. In a desperate quest for a full night’s sleep, Richmond returned to his native Ghana […]
Bringing the message home
March 3, 2004
By Ayah Mckhail A Palestinian woman is crouched down, pressed against the wall of her cinderblock home in the Balata refugee camp on the outskits of Nablus. Outside, the azure sky billows with smoke from heavy machine gun fire. Its unmistakable stench wafts through her home. The woman doesn’t dare look outside. She’s done it […]
Hush baby, mommy’s studying
February 4, 2004
By Samantha Israel Pep Philpott, 43, is in his first year of Ryerson’s post-graduate journalism program and if he wants to keep up with the rest of the class, he must rise before the sun. Philpott starts his day at 4:30 a.m. every weekday morning, and by 5:00 he’s ready to begin his school work. […]
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