Oh the Humanities – Rants & Raves
There is a lot of talk about the Quebec university students who are protesting the proposed tuition hikes. A lot of the talk has centered around the violence committed by protesters, who have mostly been revealed More...
Hear No Evil – Rants & Raves
A Greek reporter was pelted with eggs and yogourt by a group of protesters on the air who had issue with his invited guest. It turns out that the guest in question was a neo-Nazi and member of a highly controversial More...
Hold the Beef – Rants & Raves
It’s a good time to become a vegetarian in Canada. This is a point which pains me, as I have to admit that I’m a hamburgers and spaghetti kind of kid, but it looks like those childhood comfort foods More...
From Hi Ho to Ho-Hum – job apathy
There are a lot of career sites right now advocating that we should all go out there and achieve our goals. Helpful articles about training, retooling, strategizing, networking, using social networking and honing More...
The issue of wealth: money? time? freedom? privacy?
The Wealthy Barmaid may be an eye-catching title for an article which was posted to Yahoo’s website (http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthy-barmaid-s-rrsp-is-2-income-properties.html)but a closer read of More...
Skinny is not healthy – Rants & Raves
The Globe and Mail Hot Button blog, a column designed merely to get attention by shocking and appalling audiences, making it the Fox News of the website, ran a headline yesterday stating that family members should More...
The War on Christmas – Rants & Raves
The Colbert Christmas special last year featured country star Toby Keith singing a song about the War on Christmas, where he denounces the change from Christmas to Holiday and tries to take back Christmas for the More...
Keep it on (going topless in public)
A story about a woman who took her top off at a beer festival in Toronto is getting some surprising support from many commentators who have stated that the woman is well within her rights and that the sexualization More...
No Venting Allowed (It’s bad for you)
A study has found that venting to a friend while feeling stressed often makes you feel worse, rather than better. The study was conducted at the University of Kent in England and focused largely on those students More...
Nein Kiss! – (Germany: workplace kissing is terrorism)
A German etiquette group has called for an end to kissing in the workplace and has called the kiss greeting a form of ‘terrorism.’ It also claimed that the act of leaning into a person to kiss them on More...
