Category: Opinion

I believe that this new proposed structure for the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union is nothing more but regressing towards how the structure originally was. Having a multi-campus governance structure is well…

Alison Bowerman, staff In early January 2012, CTV did a story on a survey that found Canadians want the government to be more involved in the childhood obesity ‘epidemic.’ 61% feel the…

Marina Budd, staff Few topics have been more discussed and more controversial over the past decade than the conversation surrounding gay rights. However despite this controversy, the LGBTQ community is starting to…

Samantha Szilagyi, staff The age-old film and literature question: are books better than their movie counterparts? In almost every case, the answer is yes. Now don’t get too far ahead of yourselves,…

– Alison Bowerman, staff How many times have you walked past magazines at the front of the grocery store and snuck a peak at the headlines? Sure, you may have rolled your…

-Alison Bowerman, staff On October 13, tokidoki Barbie was released. The doll is styled with short pink hair and tattoos covering her arms, neck and chest. Since her debut, there has been…

– Leisha Senko, staff When does respecting a legal or ethical standard become a societal expectation? More specifically, when will it be considered a truly bigoted stance to condemn homosexuality? It seems…

– Alison Bowerman, staff While shopping for Halloween costumes recently, I couldn’t help but notice how revealing the costumes were. In order to find a costume that gave decent coverage for my…

– Leisha Senko, staff France is not a country known for being passive. Even when mildly peeved, Parisians make their voices heard, and often in the most overt fashion possible. The 1789…

– Kristen Curtis, Student Life Editor Meagan Gillmore, the previous Features Editor for The Sputnik, has won the David S. Barr Award from The Newspaper Guild of the Communications Workers of America…

Paul Kramer’s book ‘Maggie Goes on a Diet’ is due to be released in October, but not without great controversy. It is not surprising that Kramer’s use of the term ‘diet’ in…

What if we could eliminate the need for ourselves and the work we do? This may sound counterintuitive, but that is exactly what Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), a Toronto-based NGO, is…

As an unapologetic leftist, it’s difficult to admit that living through the Conservatives’ rein in a minority government wasn’t painful. Sure, their social policies are cringe-worthy in their ruthlessness, economically they’re always…

March 17 is a time-honoured holiday for the Irish, people who pretend they’re Irish and every university student alike. It’s celebrated by waking up at noon, chugging a 530-milliliter bottle of Gatorade…

I believe the women who volunteer and work for WLUSU Brantford also inspire female empowerment, deserve to be celebrated and not completely disregarded. The article focused on a lack of female interest…

I was flat-out excited when I read this article. Kiley’s story about getting involved in St. Andrew’s Church’s Soup for the Soul program is so encouraging, and I’m glad that other students…

Maclean’s magazine recently revealed that Canada’s immigration laws are not matrimony-friendly. The prevalence of Internet romance, a globalized labour market and the push for Canadian students to study abroad have encouraged people…

This past February, 13 year-old Rebecca Black’s music video, Friday went viral faster than an airborne disease. As of this writing, Black’s song has 43,195,363 (actually, now it’s 63,944,482! –Ed.) hits on…

When it comes to massive companies that are practically swimming in pools of their own money, media giant Comcast tops the list. As America’s largest cable company, Comcast has a market value…

This is my hello: to Allie Leonard, our incoming Brantford Manager of Operations at WLUSP Brantford, and to Kyle Brown, our outgoing, long-time Sports Editor and incoming, long-overdue Editor-in-Chief. These are two…