It was an exciting and exhilaratingweek filled with big games, trades and plain raw sport entertainment. Heres whats new and what we have to look forward to for the future in professional sports.
Congratulations to Tim Tebow and his CAA career:
The BCS national title game this past week was one to remember. The second seeded [...]
Congrats and concerns: Sports around the world
DUI: a new trend in the NBA
Steroids, human growth hormones and cannabis. Whats next you ask? Well, if youre a professional athlete, then its have drink and travel.
The NBAs 2008-09 campaign has since dished up several acts of driving under the influence; apparently the newest form of off-court insubordination. Three basketball stars, from the past and present, have fallen prey to [...]
Wonderwall Boulevard
Our mind is a labyrinth of emotions, decisions and memories. The palms of our hands are an intricate network of roads on an interstate map. Our destinies and fates intersect like loops in a mesh of tangled wool. It takes hundreds of bricks to make a single wall. It takes a million incidents, trials and [...]
War for peace
Every day that I am here I wonder what I am fighting for. I used to believe that we are here so that the people of this country can live the kind of life that those of us in the West take for granted. They called it a battle for peace. After three years, I [...]
Students can make a difference
Many people wish the world was a better place, one where fellow human beings didnt have to face genocide or severe socioeconomic disparities. Other people do something about it.
McMaster University student Navita Dyal is one such person. On a visit to Guyana in the summer of 2007, when Navita was only 17 years old, she [...]
Best Of 2008
CFRE Radio and The Medium join forces to pick the best albums of the year. Synth-pop and Bar-Rock place. Who will take top honours?
Whats the Dil-eo: Worst in 2008
2008 was an especially harsh year. Regretfully, not only will our epoch be remembered for the failing economy, skyrocketing gas prices, and the progression of Joe the Plumber from local handyman to war-zone reporter, but for its terrible entertainment as well. There were flashes of brilliance, but it has been without question a rather [...]
Revolutionary Road drives close to home
Love and marriage. According to the Frank Sinatra tune, they go together like a horse and carriage. After watching Revolutionary Road, I would strongly rethink such a lyric. Adapted from a Richard Yates novel of the same title, Revolutionary Road is the newest release from American Beauty director Sam Mendes who continues with his [...]
Protest solidarity
Wherever you go there seems to always be a protest of some sort. Most of you are aware, Im sure, of the fierce protests conducted outside the Israeli consulate on Bloor and Avenue. Bearing the same purpose as the vigil for the Mumbai victims in the CCIT building last month, the student union, along with [...]
New 12-week study term for 2009-2010
Erindale College Council approved aproposal for a twelve-week fall term at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) on December 11, 2008, which will take effect as of next September for the 2009-2010 academic year. The shorter fall term will allow students an additional one week study break between the end of classes and the start [...]
