May 3, 2011 3:59 pm
Three current McGill students and one recent McGill graduate were elected members of Parliament in the May 2 federal election.
May 3, 2011 2:47 am
Newly-elected Green MP Elizabeth May plans on wasting no time in bringing issues of the environment and parliamentary reform to the House of Commons.
May 3, 2011 2:24 am
Three Univerisity of British Columbia student candidates that were running for the Liberals in unwinnable ridings have all lost in an election that the vast majority of Liberals found to be equally unwinnable.
May 3, 2011 3:30 pm
Canadians witnessed a series of astounding changes in their federal political landscape as Stephen Harper’s Conservatives achieved their majority government and the NDP achieved official Opposition status for the first time in history.
May 3, 2011 10:57 am
The New Democratic Party of Canada has amassed its biggest representation in the House of Commons in the party’s 50-year history.
Science & Technology
Social approval may be a factor in PTSD
Opinion
Not all who skip out on post-secondary are missing out
Arts
Commemorating residential school survivors through art
Sports
UBC football player suspended for marijuana use
News
MUN student’s new blog aims to help victims of sexual abuse
Arts
Edmonton filmmaker strives for horror film glory in Canadian competition
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz has just released a new collection of short stories titled This Is How You Lose Her, which he read from at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) last weekend. The Strand sat down with him to discuss his new work.
I didn’t think much of you the first time we met. I was young and ignorant and you were just amongst the other 26 letters hidden somewhere in the middle, quiet and passive. I apologize now for the way I neglected you. Remembering all of those hours wasted with vowels — those damn popular vowels.
In October 2011, 85 per cent of students who voted said yes to a redistribution of $10.35 from their tuition to help fund and support a new radio station. Despite an attempt to reclaim the 88.1 FM frequency, which included what Ryerson President Sheldon Levy called “a huge amount of work,” Radio Ryerson lost the bid.