The Peterborough NDP Executive voted last week to hold a nomination meeting in late-September or early-October of this year. The purpose of the meeting will be to determine who will represent the NDP in the next provincial election. Dave Nickle, who has represented the NDP provincially since 1999, will be up for nomination. However, two [...]

Canada’s political climate is not often compared to the exciting politics in the United States. Recent attack ads targeting Justin Trudeau, however, have caused quite a stir. Trudeau was recently elected Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, in a landslide vote of over 80%. The Conservative Party of Canada quickly unleashed a series of [...]

KWIC Hunger Games Rescheduled! Friday March 22, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. West Bank, Lady Eaton College, The Pit Capitalism. We all know the term, we all know it exists, but how often do we look at the world around us and recognize it? Probably not very often. Not that one should. Paradigms develop from [...]

Arguments surrounding tuition are never in favour of higher fees or more debt. So, why do we pay so much and continue to do nothing? Arthur spoke with two students, Joé Dufour et Mathieu Gilbert Thévard, who were part of the Québecois student strike (aka Le Printemps Érable [The Maple Spring]). All translations and interviews [...]

Apartheid is a crime against humanity which involves inhuman acts committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime. Policies and practices which uphold apartheid in Israel have been examined by [...]

There has been some buzz on campus about the new student group Trent Republic, the conservative alternative to the Trent Liberty group. This relatively young group has been making quite a few ripples on campus, especially since the public vandalism of their promotional posters. Arthur decided to catch up with Sean Dobranski and Alexander Walsh, [...]

Mixing a unique blend of indie and Afrobeat, Minotaurs produce a sound that is anything but common. The music is easy to dance to, while their lyrics force listeners to open their mind about what’s going on right now in the world, in corporate offices above us and in the streets in front of us. [...]

The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement being negotiated between Canada and the European Union is set to be one of the most ambitious trade endeavors undertaken by the Harper government. Until recently, negotiations have been predominately kept in private and little detail has been explained to the public. On January 7, the CBC reported the [...]

Officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have begun assisting Elections Canada in their investigations of Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro’s campaign financing during the 2008 election. According to a court order application filled out by Elections Canada investigator Thomas Ritchie, Del Mastro allegedly overspent on his [...]

Photo by Tori Silvera Gustavo Esteva is a scholar who writes and teaches in a de-institutionalised framework in Oaxaca, Mexico at the Universidad de la Tierra. This community-based university allows students without any formal education to learn in any trade or area of knowledge that they choose. Gustavo came to Trent University to share this [...]