Tag: america
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This election is about us
BY JAKE HRIBLJAN I can’t escape from Donald Trump. No matter how hard I try, the star of everyone’s new favourite television series, ‘U.S. Elections 2016’, follows me like a shadow. Such is life in our instantaneous electronic universe. YouTube is recommending me Trump joke videos (or should I say Drumpf?), the evening news is…
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If Harper wants to end terrorism, he should stop participating in it
EDITORIAL BY JAKE HRIBLJAN Terror. What images come to mind at the sound of that word? September 11th, George W. Bush’s declaration of the “War on Terror”, al-Qaida, the Islamic State: these images pour in before the last “r” can be uttered. Politicians, both Canadian and American, bombard us with warnings of terrorists in the Middle…
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Canadians invade Youmacon
BY MADDY SOMMERVILLE Sheridan nerds invaded Detroit and the consensus is that it sure is crowded over there. Last weekend, an excited group of four Sheridan students braved the border and found themselves at Youmacon, a popular U.S.-based the anime convention. The con, which is held annually in Motor City, is similar to most of…