net neutrality - Flickr

They give us free Internet services that we can hardly do without. They champion for a free and open Internet. They make great products and give consumers an alternative to Apple or Microsoft. Sometimes it seems Google can do no wrong. Until now.

A cog in the gear of the  lumber industry

Allow me to construct as honest (and jaded) an image of treeplanting as I can: 10 hours of marching through brush with a 50 pound, lopsided bag uphill, downhill, through carrion piles and wasp nests, shoulder deep in botany with no ostensible purpose apart from maiming, tripping and generally aggravating you to the point of mental breakdown.

Fox News logo

Canada has long avoided the sort of polarized right-versus-left debate that is so common south of the border. However, a conservative news channel modelled on Fox News could change that.

Higher education should serve a higher purpose

Why are we here? It’s a question we all have to deal with — not only as human beings on this planet but also as university students.

Roman Catholic Church on the defensive amid pedophilia revelations

Though the Church would like the world to follow its guiding moral example, it has lost much credibility in the last few weeks.

Ann Coulter is a victim of  senseless discrimination

Students of the University of Ottawa, I am deeply disappointed in you. Ann Coulter is the victim of a ferocious hate crime. And you are co-conspirators.

Small town Saskatchewan immortalized in a series of YouTube videos

As the editor of a newspaper, I get a lot of press releases.

My mouse was hovering over the “delete” button of one such press release when this sentence caught my eye: “Now, I appreciate that The Sheaf doesn’t deal with frivolities and trivialities, nor does it ordinarily engage in the crass promotion of what is obviously a commercial website…”

An open letter to Mother Nature

Dear Mother Nature: I don’t know what you’re trying to pull, but I don’t like it and I want you to know that I’m on to you.

The ban on flavoured tobacco products is wrong

Tobacco tax, a ban on smoking indoors, ad campaigns with grotesque photos of cancer-ridden lungs — the list goes on in the government’s continual efforts to deter smoking. The list of such preventive measures grew further on April 6, when the government of Canada banned certain flavoured tobacco products throughout the country.

Common misconceptions about Africa

There are lots of misconceptions about the varying situations on the continent of Africa. Here are a few of those misconceptions, debunked.

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