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  • Front Page

  • Rights group asks UTM professor to resign
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  • Cover Story by Alain Latour

  • UTM political science professor Aurel Braun was asked to resign from his position as chair of Rights and Democracy, a non-partisan organization based in Montreal that promotes human rights and democratic institutions abroad.
    The call for resignation, which was signed by 45 of the agency’s 47 staffers, followed the death by heart attack of Rights and [...]

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  • editorial

  • Publishers beware—the medium is the message

  • Growing up in a poor country was not a cool experience for me. Now that I live in a rich country, I am often intrigued by the perspective that my childhood gave me.
    Take textbooks, which are pretty rare in many Cuban schools. Students often share them, passing them along as relics. (They can’t photocopy them, [...]

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  • Opinion

  • An alternative approach to learning

  • Dear Editor,
    I was saddened to see that the content of the editorial last week (“Think Before You Speak”) was, once again, speaking in favor of rising costs for education. As you mention in your editorial, residence fees, meal plan and parking costs are not like tuition fees, yet they are ancillary fees that are barriers [...]

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  • News

  • Activist Angela Davis speaks to students
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  • In the main event for Xpression Against Oppression Week, professor and social activist Angela Davis presented a lecture at the Bloor Cinema on Thursday night. The Toronto-based cinema filled up to capacity quickly, with line-ups of students and citizens reaching the corner of the block.
    UTSU VP campus life Danielle Sandhu and VP equity Daniella Kyei, [...]

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  • A&E

  • Will there be another Catcher in the Rye?
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  • The famously reclusive author J.D. Salinger, best known for his
    seminal coming-of-age novel
    The Catcher in Rye, died last Wednesday at age 91. He lived a very private life, avoiding the media whenever possible, so news of his death eluded the media until the following day. But once the public found out, an impressive outpouring of tributes [...]

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  • Features

  • Students, administration and parking: a three-way collision
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  • Parking at UTM—the reason for many a student’s headache, the source of frequent complaints for the parking office and overall, one of the most hotly contested services offered on campus.
    Limited parking space, an unforgiving ticketing process and high parking costs cause many students to grumble at UTM’s Parking and Transportation Services for most of their [...]

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  • Sports

  • EPL and their corporate yard sale
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  • The monetary status of the English Premier League is a growing concern in the soccer world. The last couple of years have displayed the fall of a sporting empire, from the struggle of clubs within the organization itself.
    Before 2009, the EPL was situated at the top of all professional soccer leagues across the globe, signing [...]

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