Eastside & down
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) has been in the news a lot, what with the tent city in Oppenheimer Park gradually becoming a thing of the past.
Author: The Other Press
The Other Press, Douglas College's student newspaper since 1976. Articles, insight and updates from the New West and Coquitlam campuses.
Angry student complains about the existential hellish period between holidays
Second-year Douglas College student Jordan Stewwart was recently outraged upon looking at the calendar and realizing there were almost three weeks between the holidays in October.
Are your emoticons being miscommunicated?
In an age where people are finding more opportunities to use fewer words, emoticons have triumphed as the millennial alphabet.
A dying wish unfulfilled
The first Ebola patient in the United States, 42-year-old Thomas Eric Duncan, died not long after his arrival from Liberia. He had been working there as a driver for a courier company, and had been exposed to the deadly virus.
The Olympics that no one wants
And then there were two: Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing, People’s Republic of China. How on Earth did this happen? Is it because hosting an Olympic event
Have a little faith in me
I’m a Christian, and no, I’m not out to convert you, tell you that you’re going to hell, or picket funerals. Yet in the case of declaring my religious beliefs, I feel as uneasy as someone who is coming out as homosexual.
Women are sports fans too
On October 6, Men’s Health magazine published an article online titled “The Secrets to Talking Sports with Any Woman.” The article, an advice column, spoke about how “she sees the game differently than you [men].”
Proposed changes to copyright will hurt quality of journalism in Canada
If you are an avid watcher of Canadian politics, you may be asking yourself: “What happened to all the attack ads against Justin Trudeau?”
Stop HIV & hep C now
You get home feeling rather proud of your recent purchase of a box of condoms, but now you’re questioning your ability to use them.