Author: Tristan Wright
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Making the best of Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is a lot like Christmas, you need to be in the spirit of things. You can be a Scrooge if you’re single and ignore the day. I’ve done that many…
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Burning opinions: the dying art of journalism
People don’t trust journalists, academia or the mainstream anymore. People who say this then turn around and say they’d vote for Hillary, which always makes me laugh. If you have a degree,…
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Canada is pretty nice, Eh?
Canada is a good place to live, despite our prime minster and a regressive agenda. We take in refugees, actual refugees, not the economic migrants of Europe. Women, children, young and old,…
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Trump vs. Clinton: Both unfit to lead America
Donald Trump is the superior choice to Hillary Clinton. There, I said it. I’m sure my fellow journalists and students have wildly differing and mundane opinions about the American election. Trump allegedly…
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Trump Anxiety
“He has stirred people up,” Howard said. “We’ve been told our whole lives not to say bad things about people, to not be bullies, to not ostracize people based on their skin…
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Slam poo-etry
This article has been a long time coming. Slam poetry has had it coming for a long time too. This mongrel half-breed of an art form is entirely disgusting. It combines the…
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Militants at wildlife refuge
[starbox] At the time of this paper coming out, militants in Oregon have taken over a wildlife refuge while carrying arms. They are upset over federal regulations and want to be restoring…
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Star Wars: the force is just meh
[starbox] Spoiler Alert! Although if you haven’t seen The Force Awakens yet we have to question if you know what Star Wars is anyway. Star Wars is meh. And that’s coming…
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What makes Tristan Wright happy?
What makes me joyful? What makes me happy? The fact that Trudeau didn’t keep his gender equal cabinet promise. Whiskey while writing as well as reading poetry. Old poetry, I refuse to…
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You can’t wear that!
“That the social justice movement has gone too far when kids can’t even represent their own culture,” Sewerynek told MRCTV. A student was dressed as a mariachi for Halloween, as…
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So the Liberals won, let’s talk: how to deal with your grief
So the Liberals won. The spoiled trust fund candidate who the Liberal John Oliver mocked on his recent segment, as an idiot, won. Instead of electing the Socialist lawyer who isn’t Jack…
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#ShoutYourAbortion
#ShoutYourAbortion About a week ago I found myself scrolling through my Twitter feed, and fell upon: #ShoutYourAbortion. The basis of this hashtag is that women should be proud of having abortions.…
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Philosophers should only be judged by their mind
Students have recently been complaining about the amount of non-transgender individuals in a philosophy course at the University of California, Berkeley, reported Campus Reform. The students claimed “the white male canon is…
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Listen to Socrates: the reasons you should be a Stoic
We live in a time of moral decline, humanity is currently struggling to revert to their inner animal nature as so many of its ancestors have fought against. I want all of…
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Political extremities: A lack of choice
Politics have always been a very heated discussion topic, with academic and the media pointing towards Liberalism as the correct ideology. They usually point out problems with both parties, but highly focus…
