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  • Jeans: A look at fashion’s most prevalent staple

    Jeans: A look at fashion’s most prevalent staple

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    STORY BY STEFAN LEE Though fashion is constantly changing, one thing remains consistent – its obsession with jeans. Jeans as we know them today began in 1873, when Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented their button fly. Since then, jeans have gone through a major shift. While first starting out as a “must-have” for factory…

  • Home movies offer peek into the past

    Home movies offer peek into the past

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    STORY BY JANA GREGORIO A nostalgic look at the day-to-day life of past decades flickered onscreen at the Mississauga Central Library Nov. 21, as the first Home Movie Day showed amateur films dating as far back as the 1920s. Tucked in a corner of the library, a handful of Sheridan film students and faculty screened 8mm…

  • Killing them softly with your face

    Killing them softly with your face

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    STORY BY COURTNEY BLOK AND NICOLE CALHAU Do you know the story behind the makeup you applied to your face today? According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), cruel tests are forced on millions of animals every year in the cosmetic industry. PETA says hundreds of thousands of those animals die as…

  • The wars that brought the world to its knees

    The wars that brought the world to its knees

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    STORYMAPS BY JENNIFER STIENSTRA The two world wars saw some of the bloodiest fighting the world had ever seen. It introduced new advanced technology, marked the beginning of chemical warfare and nuclear weapons. 2014 is a special year, for it marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One, as well as the 75th…