Canada recovers from week of attacks
On the morning of October 22, Hamilton resident Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a lone gunman, approached the National War Memorial at Parliament Hill and killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo.
Home mail delivery coming to an end
Canada Post has begun shifting over to community mailboxes as of October 20. Over the next five years, home delivery of mail via Canada Post is to be obsolete.
‘At least it works!’
Following years of delays on their much-touted automated fare card program, aptly named the “Compass Card”—in conjunction with numerous instances of total system failure in 2014—Metro Vancouver’s transportation authority, TransitLink, announced Monday that they basically just give up.
YouTube Music Video Classics: ‘Problem‘ — Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea
Ariana Grande is one of the most-talked about singers right now, especially her hit single “Problem” from her new album My Everything. In the song’s music video, Ariana sings and dances, rapper Iggy Azalea does a brief rap and dances with Ariana, and there are various references to the 1960s throughout.
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.
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.