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As a student, I am a member of countless university Facebook pages, some of which are used for students to make anonymous comments and complaints about the university. One complaint seems to be consistent amongst students: tuition costs.

Over the last number of months, there has been a pronounced trend in the U.S. to judge their historical leaders based on the moral standards of today. President Woodrow Wilson has been the object of much of this scrutiny.

So Earl’s has reversed its total ban on Alberta beef? As someone generally unaffected by fads or fashion, I was initially uninterested in Earl’s decision to serve only Certified Humane beef products in its trendy restaurants.

To see Mike (not his real name), he looks like a man who has had a hard life. Many of us encounter people like Mike every day. They are the homeless who live among us. We shy away from them, but we don’t know their stories.

It’s tax time again in Canada, which makes it a good time to think about politicians’ comments on taxes.

Canada is a construct, primarily a legal one, defined as a specific geographic territory, with a government that has a monopoly of power over a specific group of people.

On April 14, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the federal government now has constitutional responsibility for Métis and Non-Status Indians.

“That is what you get to do when you move up from manifestos, to the detailed, principled, practical plans you can really implement by winning an election.

Any Albertan who pays attention to our local political world has likely been mesmerized by the antics of the NDP government and the Wild Rose and Progressive Conservative opposition here in Alberta.

Imagine swinging gently in your hammock, observing blossoms, fruits and nuts thriving in your backyard forest garden. Chirping birds and a wall of greenery screen a grumbling lawn mower in the neighborhood beyond.